Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Future of Carbon Policy Forum Is where you want to be on January 4th at Amazon’s Seattle Campus We have become accustomed to beginning meetings with land acknowledgements and we will certainly do that at our Future of Carbon Policy Forum on January 4th. Cody Desautel will speak at the Forum.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 19, 2024

Texas-based Bedrock Energy (Bedrock) has announced the completion of its inaugural geothermal project, a geothermal borefield and heating and cooling system at Building D of the Penn Field mixed-use office and retail campus in Austin. Originally developed in 1918 as an air base for the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As demand for urban housing and public spaces increases, architects and developers must prioritize reducing CO2 emissions during the design, construction, and subsequent operation phases of new builds. But operational carbon must not be forgotten as so much of the work to reach net-zero depends on the retrofitting of existing buildings.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A new building can have a positive environmental impact, deliver value for money and benefit society, argue UK Green Building Council's Alastair Mant, and Ron Lang of the Construction Innovation Hub. As a sector, construction has an historic obsession with cost, and by extension, cheapness.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They are the homes and offices of the future that promise to keep occupants cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and healthy in mind and body all year round, while also providing a critical component of the zero emission energy system that should emerge over the next decade. Not that any part of this transition is easy, of course.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Such innovations can diversify what nuclear energy is used for and may lower deployment costs, creating potential for nuclear to play a bigger part in the transition to net zero. The UK is home to some of the leading innovator companies in this area, although there are SMRs and AMRs already at later development stages elsewhere in the world.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Infographic – Places that are heated by geothermal energy in France (source: BRGM) Radio France Since the day of its inauguration on 14 December 1963, the Maison de la Radio has been heated and cooled by deep geothermal energy, drawing on the Albien aquifer to heat and cool the building.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bedrock Energy is a technology startup that designs, constructs, and delivers geothermal heating and cooling systems. These advantages enable geothermal HVAC to fit onto dense, urban locations, with sensors that uniquely validate real-time construction accuracy. Texas-based Bedrock Energy has announced the raising of USD 8.5

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

DOE Clean Energy Programs Vital to American Innovation, Competitiveness?—?and One area that is working: The Department of Energy’s ability to seed and grow clean energy innovation?—?innovation innovation that is driving new investments, creating new jobs and reducing our country’s carbon emissions. in America.

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Charged

JULY 13, 2020

The previous article in this two-part series looked at specialized materials that are (or will be) used in motors; the focus this time will be on the innovative methods of construction that make motors more suitable for EV traction applications. But first, a quick review of motor operation and construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The successful projects that received the Energy Efficiency Award show that companies are taking responsibility for a carbon-neutral future. Dust/ash separation and pipeline construction. The necessary cold water parameters, relatively high at around 22 °C, also revealed considerable potential for using “free cooling”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We began our sustainability journey over 25 years ago, and since then have made good progress, particularly in cutting carbon emissions. By 2030, Dow will reduce its net annual carbon emissions by five million metric tons versus its 2020 baseline. And by 2050, Dow intends to be carbon neutral. Our commitments.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is partnering with Future Biogas to power its UK sites with low-carbon energy as part of company decarbonization efforts. Future Biogas will build a renewable energy plant that will enable AstraZeneca to replace natural gas with biomethane, for heating and cooling at its sites.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The size and scale of TRSDC’s battery storage facility puts this iconic regenerative tourism destination at the forefront of the global transition towards carbon neutrality,” said John Pagano, CEO of TRSDC. The construction of three seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plants at the project will provide clean drinking water.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Founded by Richard Cawén and Miikka Lemmetty, Voltan Energy is a company that designs, constructs, finances, and operates ground-source heat systems for large properties. Voltan offers its services to construction companies, developers, real estate investors and housing associations.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. With global temperatures rising, the need for cooling is expected to increase dramatically in the next few years. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At the site where four huge cooling towers once belched coal fumes into the air on the edge of the Midlands town of Rugeley, plans are underway to build 2,300 low carbon homes and a net zero carbon school, in a scheme that hopes to provide a new standard for smart, sustainable, and community-centric development in the UK.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Projects aim to help deliver a carbon free power system by 2035. has announced it has begun construction on a sweeping portfolio of utility-scale battery storage projects in Scotland that could deliver a major boost to the UK's drive to deliver a zero carbon grid.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Funding Sublime Systems raised a $40M Series A to advance its groundbreaking manufacturing process for low-carbon cement. Aeromine Technologies received an investment and endorsement from AEC Angels , an investment platform focused on architecture, engineering, and construction technologies. Energy Dome won €17.5M Aja Labs raised a $2.5M

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The construction industry bears a heavy responsibility in reversing the ongoing environmental impact caused by materials and transport emissions during construction and operational carbon once the building is complete. The Salt Lake City-based firm prioritizes ongoing education and keeping up with sustainable building trends.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 2, 2024

Hydrogen storage has been making its way into the spotlight on a growing basis as countries and companies look to H2 as a form of zero carbon emission solution as a part of their decarbonization strategies. H2MOF hopes to launch this innovative technology within the next few years.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Many companies in carbon-intensive industries — such as oil and gas and chemicals — have set net-zero target dates of or close to 2050, while many in services sectors aim for around 2035. The average net-zero target year for European companies included in the study is 2043. In others, they will have to be invented.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 14, 2023

An often overlooked part of construction is the installation of fiberglass insulation. It’s long been used to keep buildings warm in winter, cool in summer, and to maximize a structure’s thermal efficiency. This formulation of hemp fibers can be formed into brick shapes and used in construction.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 16, 2019

Decarbonize the electric grid (shift from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas to carbon-free sources like wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear, paired with storage and demand-side solutions), B. particularly technologies that make the most of the carbon that we continue to emit. This area is the subject of this post?—?particularly

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Grid operator National Grid ESO has announced that it has successfully completed a 10-week pilot project to test a hydrogen-powered backup generator at its Deeside Centre for Innovation (DCI), which could potentially be used to replace diesel models across the UK's power network.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Velux Group's sustainability team had been plotting a 'lifetime carbon neutral' decarbonsiation concept for more than a year when, some 5,000 miles away, Microsoft garnered headlines around the world last January by dropping a similar plan to compensate for all its historic emissions. million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2041.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Healthy Buildings Challenge received 99 applications from 15 countries, representing a range of innovations in building materials, coatings, and envelope systems, as well as digital platforms, monitoring, and supplemental technologies. Greentown Labs, Saint-Gobain, and MassCEC hosted a kickoff for The Healthy Buildings Challenge on Oct.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. Risk and adaptation.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Taiga Orca features carbon fiber construction and a 23 kWh battery pack, which the company says will power about two hours of fun on the water. The innovative closed-loop cooling circuit running through the battery, motor and inverter has been tested to maintain temperature regulation from arctic to tropical conditions.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

This operational first will be achieved using new innovative technologies for both the charging infrastructure and the vehicles, which will collect an estimated 20,000 tonnes of residents’ waste and recycling in the Square Mile over the next 6 years.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

The market is still warm, but cooling. Jury is out on whether investment will keep cooling or heat back up.   Despite its seeming popularity in the press, Carbon gets more headlines than funding. Other climate generalists such as Climate Capital and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund also took top spots.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Sonoma Clean Power, a community-owned electricity provider for California's Sonoma and Mendocino counties, is the owner of a unique carbon neutral, 15,330-square-foot headquarters in Santa Rosa, California. "As The high-performance building replaced an existing office building, which was one important step to achieving a zero carbon project.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

McDonald's has completed construction of a first-of-its-kind restaurant designed to create enough renewable energy on-site to cover 100 per cent of its energy needs on a net annual basis. Credit: McDonalds.

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