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Dan Evans, Itron Senior Director of Smart Cities, on the Chicago smart lighting project

Smart Energy International

With the completion of the city of Chicago’s Smart Lighting Programme, Yusuf Latief talked to Dan Evans, Itron’s Senior Director of Smart Cities, about the programme’s implementation, challenges and benefits. This prevents repeat trips, as well as wasted time, money and carbon footprint.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products.

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From Trash to Treasure: The Role of Technology in Modern Waste Management

The Environmental Blog

There is a lot of latent energy in our waste. Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. It also helps reduce greenhouse gases by converting waste to energy rather than burning it. Another WtE technology involves gasification.

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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Announce Second Cohort for ACCEL, an Accelerator for BIPOC-led Climatetech Startups

Greentown Labs

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. AtmoSpark Technologies (Houston, Texas) is an atmospheric water generation company with a patented electro-condensation technology, which has a lower energy footprint than that of current water-generation methods.

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UK smart grid-powered electric homes to be installed along historic MG Rover site

Smart Energy International

“By introducing carbon-negative homes and smart-grid powered developments…we’re proving that greener homes can be delivered at commercial scale,” stated Sarwjit Sambhi, CEO of St. Modwen’s first carbon-negative homes, a trial that makes homes airtight to enable them to return power to the UK grid.

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How Microsoft Plans To Eliminate All The Carbon It Ever Emitted

R-Squared Energy

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. When it comes to overall energy consumption”, Mr. Willis explained, “China is first, second is the U.S., ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to and the third is datacenters.”

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From fiction reality: Could people ever embrace a ban on flying?

Grist

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel.