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The State of Green Business 2021

GreenBiz

The State of Green Business 2021. Joel Makower. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 02:11. Adapted from the 14th annual State of Green Business report, our annual report card on progress by the world’s largest companies. The report, published in partnership with S&P Global Trucost, is a free download. Now, where were we? A year ago at this time, we looked ahead and confidently saw more engagement, new initiatives and a continuation of the forward march of progress that constitutes a typical year in the world of s

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What Would Nuclear Batteries Do For Us?

Jim Conca

Centralized power systems are inefficient and cumbersome in our new technological future. Like the old telephone system that gave way to autonomous locally-controlled hand-held devices, nuclear batteries can make the same change for power to small, mobile, safe, clean, and affordable markets.

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How Wall Street can win on climate In 2021

GreenBiz

How Wall Street can win on climate In 2021. Ben Ratner. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 01:00. This year, financial institutions must make a significant leap forward on climate — from pledges to progress. Even amidst a global pandemic, 2020 proved climate finance and a focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are more than passing fads, with net-zero financed emissions commitments from Morgan Stanley , JP Morgan and a group of 30 international asset managers — Net Zero Asset Management Ini

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Firm shortlisted in Singaporean challenge

Envirotec Magazine

Photo credit: Emma_Griffiths/Shutterstock.com. Environmental management technology firm Envirosuite has been shortlisted in Singapore PUB’s Global Innovation Challenge (GIC). Out of 104 applicants, the firm has been selected in the “Seamless Coagulation” category. PUB is the national water agency that manages Singapore’s water supply, water catchment and used water.

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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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Let’s rid our work environments of the toxic smoke of dysfunction

GreenBiz

Let’s rid our work environments of the toxic smoke of dysfunction. Chris Gaither. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 01:30. Before he saw the smoke, he felt it in his throat. It tasted foul. It curled into his nose, his mouth, his lungs. He looked up from his computer. His colleagues were tapping at their keyboards. The smoke hovered around them. He walked to his manager’s door.

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Herdade da Ferraria goes from farmhouse to sustainable home

Inhabitat - Innovation

Sustainable living inspired the amazing Herdade da Ferraria by Enter Arquitectura. Once an old farm warehouse, this building has become a benchmark for modern design.

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Firm shortlisted in Singaporean challenge

Envirotec Magazine

Singapore, Asia – 4 June 2019: Esplanade Drive bridge over to the financial district of Singapore. Image: Shutterstock.com/Emma_Griffiths. Environmental management technology firm Envirosuite has been shortlisted in Singapore PUB’s Global Innovation Challenge (GIC). Out of 104 applicants, the firm has been selected in the “Seamless Coagulation” category.

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Designers selected for new Shenzhen Natural History Museum project

Inhabitat - Innovation

The team beat out over 70 proposals from around the world in an international competition.

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Flood mapping in the East

Envirotec Magazine

As part of the drive to implement the EU Floods Directive, the World Bank has partnered with both Bulgaria and Romania to update these countries’ national flood hazard and risk maps. Important contracts were recently announced in this respect with geo-data specialist Fugro and engineering consultancy HR Wallingford. The World Bank will use Fugro’s digital terrain and surface models for flood hazard mapping in Romania.

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Finnish hockey team goes carbon-neutral

Inhabitat - Innovation

Lahti Pelicans, a Finnish ice hockey club, is championing for a carbon-free world.

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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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Maps enhance flood risk modelling

Envirotec Magazine

Malmsbury, Wiltshire, during the 2012 flooding: The Climate Suite products are intended to provide insight into future flood hazards. Terrain data from aerial mapping company Bluesky is being used to upgrade the first national climate change flood model for the UK. Created by flood risk modelling firm Ambiental Risk Analytics , the FloodFutures map brings together the latest river flow, rainfall, storm surge and climate change predictions and addresses all major sources of flooding.

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JUSU turns juicing by-products into all-natural home and body care items

Inhabitat - Innovation

A juice bar in Canada pursues zero-waste goals by turning fruit scraps into natural personal care and home products.

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First Solar Sells Off Majority of Development Pipeline

GreenTechMedia

First Solar will pass 10 gigawatts of in-development projects to wind developer Leeward Renewable Energy, the companies announced Monday, as the solar manufacturer continues to overhaul its business. The sale accounts for a majority of First Solar’s project assets, in an anticipated move underscoring the company’s plans to concentrate primarily on manufacturing.

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Sponsored content: Leaving room to breathe

Envirotec Magazine

Tank farm with mobile test bench. Tank breather vents are often overlooked as critical safety assets. The consequences from poorly set, calibrated and serviced assets are potentially dire. Apart from relieving due to changes in fluid level and temperature they must also: • Prevent fugitive emissions of damaging and invisible flammable vapour clouds. • Maintain quality of stored media.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Will Airborne Wind Power Finally Fly in 2021?

GreenTechMedia

An energy technology that even Google parent company and tech behemoth Alphabet couldn’t get to work might finally achieve commercial takeoff this year. The German company SkySails Power last month announced that its energy kite concept would be taking to the skies this year in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius. This could move airborne wind closer to commercial success than Alphabet-backed airborne wind power technology developer Makani was able to get before it crashed out of t

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Sponsored content: Cleaner air thanks to carbon filtration

Envirotec Magazine

The UK Government’s Clean Air Strategy identifies a number of target compounds that need to be reduced dramatically within industrial air emissions. Two of the main target contaminants, namely volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and ammonia (NH3), can be abated efficiently via filtration with activated carbon. CPL Activated Carbons is a leading UK supplier of carbon filtration solutions.

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Sustainable Business in 2021: Table Stakes

Green Business Bureau

2021: The year of recovery. Last year brought tremendous change in the business world with the acceleration of so many mega trends including remote work, video conferencing, eCommerce, and the digitization of almost everything. The business world will never be the same. 2021: Also the year of sustainability. That’s right. Our team here at Green Busing Bureau strongly believes that this will be the year of mainstream sustainable business where every company, not just the purpose-driven ones, wi

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Sponsored content: Landfill pollution monitoring platform

Envirotec Magazine

Environmental sector ICT specialist Recycle2Trade has signed up to the national SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology) business support programme, which is providing funding to support the company in a collaboration with the University of Leicester on a project that aims to use satellite observations of landfills to detect gas emissions and damage to surrounding vegetation.

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LA River masterplan requests local input for sustainable development

Inhabitat - Innovation

The planners hope to better address community needs throughout the project.

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Sponsored content: Versatile gas analysis for a range of industrial settings

Envirotec Magazine

Gas Data has been manufacturing and maintaining gas analysis instrumentation for 30 years. The company’s breadth of products ranges from fixed analysers certified for use in ATEX zone 1 areas, to handheld devices for data logging and spot checking. The flagship range of fixed gas analysers is the Click! product line. Designed and created by Gas Data for a vast array of applications, the Click!

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It’s Official: In 2020, Renewable Energy Beat Fossil Fuels Across Europe

Forbes Green Tech

The results are in: last year, for the first time, renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the EU, spurred on by new solar and wind power projects.

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Sponsored content: Ionizer tech inhibits SARS-Cov-2

Envirotec Magazine

Contract research organisation Texcell has verified the inhibitory effect of nanoe X, an ionizer technology developed by Panasonic capable of generating “nano-sized atomized water particles”. The inclusion of hydroxyl radicals in the water is said to provide an inhibitory effect with pathogenic microorganisms including the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).

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Borrego pivots to utility-scale strategic focus, unveils new brand identity

altenergymag

Leading solar and storage developer, EPC and O&M provider charts ambitious gigawatt-scale course

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Sponsored content: On board with seals expertise

Envirotec Magazine

On the 1st of November 2020, the Board of Directors of Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd were delighted to announce that Mr James Winn, the great grandson of the founder of the company has been appointed to the Board. James Winn has worked for the company for over 25 years and he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the management team. Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd has specialised in the manufacture and supply of corrosion prevention and sealing products for over 90 years.

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Report points to a new culprit behind the Great Lakes’ big, green, poop problem

Grist

The Great Lakes are threatened by toxic, greenhouse-gas-emitting algae that thrive on phosphorus pollution. The muck suffocates fish and contaminates drinking water, posing a threat to the 1.3 million jobs that depend on proximity to Great Lakes shipping routes and beauty. Since the 1970s, farmers and cities have been cutting phosphorus pollution — in the form of fertilizer washing off fields and sewage — but algal blooms keep killing fish and grossing out tourists.

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Sponsored content: Brazil plant chooses TS

Envirotec Magazine

Six Valmet Total Solids Measurement (Valmet TS) systems will be supplied as part of the delivery by SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions of water and wastewater treatment plants to Klabin’s Puma II project in Brazil. The project comprises the construction of two new paper machines, along with the production of integrated pulp. The SUEZ delivery includes expansion of the water production plant from 141,600 m 3 per day to 213,600 m 3 per day and a 50 percent increase in the treatment capacity o

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We Could Be Making Steel From Green Hydrogen, Using Less Coal

Forbes Green Tech

Australia's Fortescue Metals is the latest company that says it wants to make steel from green hydrogen, not coal. It can be done but will it ever be cost effective?

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Sponsored content: Water management system keeps business moving

Envirotec Magazine

The CastSlot installation at Littlebrook. A new distribution centre at Littlebrook Business Park features the market leading Gatic CastSlot water management system. Littlebrook (orbital 47) is home to several firms which rely on the near constant movement of goods. Zach Graham, Alumasc Area Sales Manager for London and the South East, said: “The distribution centre is in an ideal location due to the surrounding environment with easy access to the M25.” He said that as the loading area is f

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Octillion Power Systems to supply batteries for Lightning and ABC electric buses

Charged

Tier 1 battery supplier Octillion Power Systems will provide battery packs for electric motorcoaches and city transit buses offered by ABC Companies and Lightning eMotors. Lightning will provide its electric powertrains, including Octillion’s batteries, to convert popular models including Van Hool T2145e highline touring coaches and TD double-deck coaches.

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Sponsored content: Drainage expert achieves Top Track 250 listing

Envirotec Magazine

Drainage and water utilities specialist Lanes Group plc ranks 101st in The Sunday Times Lloyds Bank Top Track 250, the highest position since it began appearing in the list in 2016. The league table, published in The Sunday Times , identifies the fastest-growing and most successful mid-market companies in the UK. Lanes submitted evidence about the company’s financial performance, service portfolio and business growth as part of the selection procedure for the Top Track 250 list.

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Nuvve and IoTecha to deploy bidirectional EV charging system for V2G applications

Charged

San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pioneer Nuvve and smart charging specialist IoTecha are joining forces to deploy and commercialize a bidirectional EV charging solution that uses the CCS standard and supports the ISO/IEC15118 protocol. The plan is to enable automotive OEMs to enable bidirectional energy flow on their vehicles using IoTecha and Nuvve technology.

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Sponsored content: Take control of emissions from land reclamation

Envirotec Magazine

After decades of neglect, the result of land pollution has reached a level of significance which is now impossible to ignore. Many sites around the world now pose a major hazard for new construction operations and have created a huge clean-up conundrum. With toxic chemicals and pesticides leading to potentially fatal illnesses, careful VOC monitoring is now indispensable.

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Contractors Corner: Creative Solar USA

Solar Power World

The Georgia solar market is fairly dependable. Consistently in the Top 10 states by installed solar capacity, Georgia has a strong utility-scale pipeline, mostly fueled by large arrays that support major corporations. But the residential and commercial markets are just as strong, said Russell Seifert, CEO of local installer Creative Solar USA. In this episode… The post Contractors Corner: Creative Solar USA appeared first on Solar Power World.

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The most reliable air quality monitor?

Envirotec Magazine

The refinement and development of the AQMesh small sensor air quality monitoring system over many years, and through numerous global co-location comparisons, have brought a wealth of unique benefits, says the firm. As well as a range of comparison datasets across climates from the Middle East to Scandinavia, each AQMesh pod has always been subject to a comprehensive factory set-up, following best practise of co-location comparison with reference equipment.

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