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5 Simple Ideas to Begin Sustainable Living

Green Living Guy

The environmental impact caused by humans has come to more light in recent years. The use of social media has allowed voices to be heard – voices that would otherwise go unnoticed without the internet. Along with this, globalization has also opened people’s eyes. Especially to the effects their consumer habits and ways of living have […]. The post 5 Simple Ideas to Begin Sustainable Living appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Gas Is Needed in Foreign Policy and To Stabilize the U.S. Grid

Energy Central

Natural gas has been getting short shrift in the U.S. energy debate. It deserves better. Much better. It has been battered by environmentalists who oppose exploration and the pipelines to get it to market. They are attempting to evict natural gas and force utilities into reliance on intermittent renewables. But events in Europe may cause a rethink about natural gas, both as a transition.

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Forrest outlines plans for $3 billion wind, solar and battery hub in Queensland

Renew Economy

Andrew Forrest buys massive Clarke Creek wind, solar and battery project in Queensland, and says construction will start on first stage immediately. The post Forrest outlines plans for $3 billion wind, solar and battery hub in Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Tattoos in Society: A Progression of Acceptance

Unsustainable

In this article, we will explore the progression of tattoo acceptance in society and answer some common questions about tattoos.

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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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Fortescue starts building hydrogen electrolyser plant that will double global production

Renew Economy

Fortescue begins construction of world's biggest electrolyser factory, to double global production. The post Fortescue starts building hydrogen electrolyser plant that will double global production appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Private Film Screening: Revolution Generation • 9/30/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

September 30, 2022. 5:00 PM – 6:45 PM PST. Register. Join WCS for a private screening of The Revolution Generation, the latest documentary by activist/filmmaker team Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell-Tickell. . Virtual event. Standard ticket: $3. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. No promo codes needed. Refer to the membership options here.

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Save the Date: Revolution Generation Screening • 9/30/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

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COP27: IMF economist Mahmoud Mohieldin appointed UN High Level Climate Action Champion

Business Green

IMF executive director to coordinate non-state efforts from businesses, investors, cities and civil society at UN climate summit in Egypt later this year. The UN has named leading economist Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin as the High-Level Climate Action Champion for this year's international climate talks in Egypt, where he will lead on coordinating the work of non-state actors such as investors and businesses in support of the Paris Agreement's goals.

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Save the Date: Pole Dance for a Sustainable Future • 8/26/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

The post Save the Date: Pole Dance for a Sustainable Future • 8/26/22 appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.

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Are microbes the future of recycling? It’s complicated.

Grist

This story was originally published by Undark Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since the first factories began manufacturing polyester from petroleum in the 1950s, humans have produced an estimated 9.1 billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate.

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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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Gas Cars Produce More Supply Chain Emissions Than EVs — Yale University Study

CleanTechnica

Yale University study exposes emissions problem of gas car supply chains Electric vehicles offer a cleaner, lower-emission experience for consumers, but some skeptics have criticized the mining, manufacturing and charging practices necessary for their batteries as less clean than EV companies claim. However, a recently published study depicts how minuscule the lifespan emissions of EVs […].

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Elon Musk Emphasizes The Importance Of Batteries For Renewable Energy

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk emphasized the importance of batteries for renewable energy in a response to Fox News recently. While doing so, he also highlighted a common problem while also providing a solution to that problem. Anyone who follows his work closely would already know that batteries are the solution to the intermittent nature of renewables but […].

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New Fiat 500 Wins GQ City Car of the Year, MG4 Electric Hatchback — EV News Today

CleanTechnica

There’s been plenty of hot electric vehicle, EV charging, and battery news in the past week. Scroll down below for a long list of stories, from new electric cars to EVs winning car awards to wireless EV charging to sustainable lithium mining, there’s much to chew on. Electric Car News New Fiat 500 has been […].

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Best Electric Vehicle Of 2022 Is Tesla Model Y, Cars.com Concludes

CleanTechnica

Cars.com has named the Tesla Model Y the Best Electric Vehicle of 2022 winner in its “Best of 2022” awards program. The car-buying marketplace stated, “As more automakers bet on an electric future, consumers are starting to pay attention to the once-outlying rogue tech of automotive.” Expanding on that, executive editor and head of EV […].

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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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Renault Driving On Hydrogen ICE With New Concept Car

CleanTechnica

Renault knows how to amaze its public. It is famous for the most original and creative concept cars. Now Renault is looking at a hydrogen ICE (internal combustion engine) for a new concept car. This has to be on the top of the list of most original surprises. I will explain why this is a […].

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Right-Hand-Drive Electric Vehicle Markets — Projections

CleanTechnica

Although the current EV market appears to concentrate on the left-hand-drive markets of the USA, Europe and China, a significant number of earth’s citizens live in right-hand-drive markets. Below is a summary of right-hand-drive EV markets — projections from Rethink Energy’s lead analyst, Peter White. Australia Up to the start of 2021 (12 months ago), […].

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Tesla Model 3 Road Trip Review — Finishing Our Transcontinental Tesla Trip To California

CleanTechnica

With 2 Million Teslas Sold, Is the Tesla Supercharger Network Keeping Up? We’ve recently driven our Tesla Model 3 from our daughter’s house near Charlotte North Carolina, to Salt Lake City Utah. Just now we finished the last leg of our transcontinental Model 3 adventure on February 14, 2022, driving from the Salt Lake City, […].