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Eco-Friendly Waste Disposal Tips From the Experts

Green Living Guy

Environmental issues have been a huge concern for people globally. It is an established fact that we cannot save the environment without the joint effort of everyone. Even a small change in our day-to-day habits and tiny actions towards a… Read More Eco-Friendly Waste Disposal Tips From the Experts. The post Eco-Friendly Waste Disposal Tips From the Experts appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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John Thackara: What does the future hold for humanity?

Low Impact

This is part 1 of a conversation with John Thackara – senior fellow of the Royal College of Art, visiting professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, founder and director of the Doors of Perception sustainable design conferences, and author of many books, including How to Thrive in the Next Economy. Hello John. Good Morning. I’m doing a series of interviews with people for an upcoming book on building a new economy around a mutual credit core.

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Redmond Electronics Recycling Event Recap

Living Green Technology

Living Green Technology recently partnered with Redmond High School’s PTSA for an electronics recycling event. The event’s goals were to raise awareness about electronics recycling and to help fundraise for new water bottle refilling stations for the students. From 10 AM to 2 PM, hundreds of residents visited the high school to responsibly recycle computers, phones, tablets, game consoles, and more.

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Companies are talking about sustainability more than ever — but are they walking the talk?

Eco-Business

Prompted by Covid-19, the word 'sustainability' is cropping up in company filings more than ever — and more so in Asia Pacific than in Europe or North America. Are they walking the talk?

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Wizards vs. Prophets

Mr. Sustainability

Two opposing views on how to tackle the energy transition - by Yvo de Rooij Summary - Humankind stands at a crossroads to shape tomorrow's world. Increasing population and affluence subsequently increases overall demand, be it in the form of food, water or energy. In the book “The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Duelling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World” two scientists present two different paths to escape a humanitarian crisis.

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Tackling Asia’s plastic pollution

Eco-Business

Asian governments must now enact and properly implement policies and regulations that will help to scale up grassroots initiatives and hold plastics producers accountable for addressing the plastic pollution crisis.

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Oil palm plantations a ‘threat to global health,’ reports study on outbreaks

Eco-Business

From Ebola in Africa to malaria in Brazil to tick-borne illnesses in the US, there is a common thread linking outbreaks of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases: fluctuating forest cover, according to a recent study.

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BMW Begins Drive Unit Production for iX and i4 Vehicles

CleanTechnica

BMW recently started production of its fifth-generation drive units at the Competence Centre for E-Drive Production in Dingolfing. This is the beginning of a much larger push to produce drive units and battery packs at more and more BMW production facilities, with a goal of 50% electric drive production by 2030. Upping Production “We expect […].

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New city 'heat officers' take aim at climate change's 'silent killer'

Eco-Business

As urban areas worldwide face a growing threat from heatwaves, they are starting to plan ways to protect their vulnerable residents.

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South Africa’s Draft Green Paper On New Energy Vehicles Is A Step In The Right Direction

CleanTechnica

In 2019, we wrote an article raising the alarm that South Africa’s inertia in incentivising the adoption of electric vehicles could make it miss out on the incredible opportunities presented by the electric vehicle revolution. The motor vehicle assembly and motor vehicle component manufacturing industry is one of the key pillars of South Africa’s economy. […].

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change

CleanTechnica

NASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes. With the Earth System Observatory, each satellite will be uniquely designed to complement the others, working in tandem to create a 3D, holistic view of […].

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Paris Climate Accord & Net Zero by 2050 Goals in Jeopardy — Nations to Issue New Urgent Call to Action

CleanTechnica

Netherlands, CALSTART’s Drive to Zero to lead new int’l coordinated effort targeting zero-emission trucks, buses.

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Ceramic-Based Solid-State EV Batteries: These Are The Questions We Still Need To Answer

CleanTechnica

University of Michigan researchers lay out hurdles for tech that could double EV range.

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We Don’t Need New Miracle Technologies To Reduce Emissions — We Need Action Now

CleanTechnica

Originally posted on EVANNEX. by Charles Morris We know what we need to do to cut carbon emissions and clean up the air we breathe — replace fossil fuel-burning vehicles with EVs, and fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy sources. Image courtesy of EVANNEX. (Photo by Casey Murphy) Stating the problem and the solution may be simple, […].

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Rental Efficiency Standards: A Win for Equity & Climate

CleanTechnica

Originally published on RMI.org. By Jake Glassman & Sneha Ayyagari COVID-19 and the resulting economic downturn have turned the existing housing crisis from bad to worse. Renters in more than 8 million homes are behind on payments, and as they struggle to make ends meet, utility bills further burden tenants. Compounding this problem is a lack […].

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Ford & Sunrun Team Up To Make V2H Technology A Reality. Is V2G Next?

CleanTechnica

Ford and Sunrun will work together to make vehicle to home technology affordable for F-150 Lightning customers.

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Volkswagen Teams Up With A Town To Improve Computer Vision

CleanTechnica

When we think of cars and computer vision, the obvious applications are all on the car. Lane sensing, obstacle sensing, and seeing other cars enables driver assistance, and eventually autonomous vehicles. But what if someone did the opposite, and enabled the road to see the cars? That’s exactly what Volkswagen and the municipal government in […].