AGreenLiving

JANUARY 30, 2020

Native of Porto, Portugal, designer João Leão was becoming more and more concerned about the abundance of plastic waste he saw clogging up his city’s beautiful coastline. Inspired to act on the issue, the ambitious designer decided to find a way to clean the ocean by using that waste to create an innovative product.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As many as eight innovations cut CO2 from plastics manufacturing, data centre cooling and other processes win public and private support. As many as eight innovations were announced as successful bidders to share nearly £4.6m from the private sector.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Many schools including the schools on this list have demonstrated that they are both resourcefulness innovative in their efforts to achieve their sustainability objectives.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2022

They are part of the brand’s push for a more sustainable future and an end to plastic waste. Related: Adidas 100% recycled jacket is solving plastic pollution Between the shoe’s fun colors and cool style, you would never guess it’s made of upcycled parts. Adidas Images via Adidas.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. . To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The first step?

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Carbfix , a Carbon to Value Initiative Year 1 participant, received a grant from the European Innovation Fund to build the Coda Terminal , a large-scale CO 2 transport and storage hub in Iceland. Kanin Energy is partnering with Tallgrass to develop four waste-heat-to-power clean energy projects. Deployments + Partnerships.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps. Industrial users should evaluate the non-energy benefits of electrification including operational advantages, reduced waste, improved productivity and increased worker safety. Meet industrial customer needs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Dubbed 'Go Greener', the new campaign will promote innovative green products, such as smart fridges which can help cut the average £30 of food waste produced by households every month. The company already recycles 65,000 tonnes of waste electronics each year, making it the biggest e-waste recycler among UK retailers.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Celine Herweijer, Partner, Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader, PwC. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles. LinkedIn | Twitter. For HP Inc.,

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And reduce plastic waste, while we’re at it? Across these applications, MettleWood could replace significant portions of the steel, concrete, and hard plastics used in buildings today, leading to meaningful decarbonization. What, then, if we could turbocharge wood to replace these emissions-heavy materials?

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The brands "can use plastics to make fibers, but they don't have a solution for fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale," Emmanuel Ladent, Carbios CEO, said in an interview. The company expects the facility, which will recycle local plastic waste, to begin operations in 2025. A 'truly circular' solution. Hungry, hungry enzymes.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve identified four main environmental challenges the legal industry faces, and we’ve listed these below: Habitual use of consumables such as paper and single-use plastics. Excessive waste generated from the cafeteria and/or break rooms. Tip #3: Reduce waste, recycle, and compost. Recycle more than just paper.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the one of the leading producers of plastics, how we make our plastics has to be at the centre of our approach as well as ensuring that our products are recyclable, are getting recycled and contain recycled content. We're also looking at the feedstocks (the raw materials) needed to create plastics. Our commitments.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

Featured venues include the aptly named Green Man in Milton Keynes, which serves a low food miles menu; Stroud Brewery in the Cotswolds, which was the UK's first UK B Corp certified organic brewery; and the Pipe and Glass in East Yorkshire, which has banned plastic straws, increased its recycling efforts, and installed an electric car charger.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Twenty startups joined our community in Q3 2021, working on innovations as diverse as carbon-negative fats, energy-efficient membrane materials for chemical separations, and scalable electric vehicle charging solutions for high-density urban settings. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2024

The full list of finalists is: Consultancy of the year Bioregional Buro Happold Carbon Limiting Technologies Greengage Holtara Lawyers For Nature CIC Tunley Environmental Planet Mark Verco Hospitality Firm of the year Compass Group UK & Ireland Conference Aston Parkdean Resorts room2 The Wellbeing Farm TOAST Manufacturer of the year Archwood Limited (..)

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

Applied Gaia is committed to preserving the agriculture industry through the production of high-quality biochar—an odorless, clean material generally made from waste biomass that would otherwise be burned or landfilled. Innovator Energy develops and deploys several breakthrough solutions in cooling, heating, and heat transfer.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2020

In addition to this, their longer lifespan (25 times longer in some cases) means that you won’t be spending money on purchasing new ones, occupying storage space with replacements or wasting productivity by installing new bulbs which further drives your ROI. Minimize Waste. Upgrade Insulation.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Part of that adaptation has been to minimize waste and champion efficiency. Another vital initiative that will help your business become more energy efficient is the switching to US Energy Star rated equipment, which covers a wide range of appliances such as heat and cooling systems and computers. To survive, business has had to adapt.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. The company worked with local coconut farmers from a fishing village on Lubang Island to create the innovative, insulating material.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The first step?

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2021

It will attract more customers and employees, gain their trust and loyalty, cut your energy costs, preserve resources and reduce waste. Wasting energy and resources that lead to scarcity and hurt the bottom line. Green Clubhouses Should Eliminate Plastic. The good news is that a more sustainable business is good for business.

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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. This could be due to the relative maturity of renewables and  sentiment that decarbonizing energy was past the innovation stage. 2023 saw a 29% increase in the cumulative total.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals. Other technologies have problems too.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

A restaurant may determine that their food sources, waste stream and heating/cooling are their keys. It can include being more energy efficient, reducing waste, reducing your carbon footprint, minimizing pollution, eliminating plastic, changing how you manufacturer, sourcing from other sustainable companies. Office Space.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. In a realm where products have long been forged by wasting scandalous amounts of heat, many are receptive to flipping the script. Concrete: the hardest problem of them all?

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

  In deals, $250m for electric buses, planes, and automobiles, $100m for carbon accounting software, and $23m for nuclear waste transmutation.    Scientists say a giant space umbrella might be the cool idea we need.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet? in royalties.  

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sustainability is a business opportunity to be captured through innovation and testing new ideas. First, summarize business aspects that consume energy, water and other natural resources, generate waste, impact the environment and contribute to climate change. How much do we waste? Do we use plastic bottles for water?

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps. Industrial users should evaluate the non-energy benefits of electrification including operational advantages, reduced waste, improved productivity and increased worker safety. Meet industrial customer needs.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

Deals of the Week (7/10-7/16) Venture Fundings 🧱 CarbonCure Technologies , a Dartmouth, Canada-based company injecting CO2 into concrete, raised $80M in Growth funding from Blue Earth Capital, Samsung Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Taronga Ventures, 2150, and BH3.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

As such the supermarket plans to start off with what it knows it can do, including switching all stores to LED lighting by 2022, improving the energy efficiency of its fridges, switching to a zero emission fleet, and halving the amount of plastic packaging it produces by 2025.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

The family Orlandi, who owns GPR Exhaust Systems, has had always passion for the animals and the nature and moreover we have been always innovative regarding productions process,” he said. Orlandi says that GPR was ahead of the market in adopting sustainability measures.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Anyway, the hope had always been that Velux's innovative 'lifetime carbon neutral' concept - a plan to invest heavily in nature-based solutions that would offset all the carbon dioxide produced throughout the firm's near 80-year history - would be emulated by other companies, Reumert says. "We But then we thought, this is also great.

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