Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Newhaven waste incinerator, East Sussex. A legal challenge has been issued to the Government’s decision to exclude municipal waste incinerators from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme – the replacement for the existing EU Emissions Trading Scheme, to come into effect after the UK leaves the EU. The application for judicial review, by environmental campaigner Georgia Elliott-Smith, also includes a challenge to the Government’s decision to roll forward carbon emissions allowances to future year

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Commercial trucking's future is in the details. Rick Mihelic. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 01:45. One downside of a career as an engineer is that you are trained to notice detail. Robert Downey Jr., playing Sherlock Holmes in the 2011 movie "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows," is asked what he sees. His answer: "Everything. That is my curse." It can make you the invaluable go-to person for information and analyses, and it also can make you the brunt of sarcasm and stereotyping.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

New Delhi-based practice Architecture Discipline recently completed The East India Hotels Corporate Headquarters, a LEED Platinum-certified office space housed within the Oberoi Office Tower in Gurugram, India's finance and technology hub. Dynamic, avant-garde and modern, the workspace design aims for functionality and comfort with full-height high-performance glass that lets in natural light and an open-plan layout conducive to flexibility.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Unlocking a Circular Carbon Economy. . Marcius Extavour, the Executive Director of Prize Operations in Energy & Resources with Carbon XPRIZE, discusses how to create a circular economy that will also tackle climate change. Holly Secon. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 22:42. Featured. Off.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

What if there was a way to intercept oceanbound plastic?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products. Cecilia Keating. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 00:15. Unilever last week revealed plans to funnel close to $1.2 billion over the next 10 years into initiatives that will allow it to replace chemicals in its cleaning products made from fossil fuel feedstocks with greener alternatives — an investment it described as critical to meeting its aim of achieving net-zero emissions from its products by 2039.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Opening Panel: The Human Dimension of Waste Collection. Who are the humans that are managing our waste? The informal waste economy is an often overlooked part of our global plastic supply chain. But they play an essential role but ensuring that plastics are collected and reused before they enter waste streams. These experts discuss innovative solutions to improve their working conditions and make sure that they get paid for the valuable work they do.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On 7 September Southern Water announced “a comprehensive plan” that it claimed demonstrated its commitment to reducing pollution incidents and helping to improve the environment. “We’re one of the first organisations in the sector to have analysed the challenge in detail and developed a plan like this – and we’re proud of it,” said Dr Nick Mills, Head of Pollution and Flooding Resilience at the utility. “It’s based on extensive data analysis

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Solving Food Waste and Hunger. An estimated 1.3 billion metric tons of food is lost or wasted globally each year, according to the United Nations — about one-third of all the food produced for human consumption. Meanwhile, over 690 million people worldwide still went hungry in the last year. These two problems should seemingly solve themselves. Innovative circular economy models might be able to help.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Service and Testing Laboratories looking to minimise plant downtime can find help in the extended on-site calibration services from Young Calibration. The existing calibration services for food, drink and pharmaceutical sectors have been extended to cover a range of environmental instrumentation, including sampling systems, emissions stack measurement, flow samplers, water meters, data loggers and weather stations.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Why Plastic Waste is a C Suite Issue. Why is plastic waste a c-suite issue, and how can corporate leaders have a positive impact on plastic waste reduction, while potentially benefiting their businesses? Plastic waste reduction is not only an environmental issue. It is an economic one. Indeed, every C-suite officer has a reason to care about plastic waste reduction, and can benefit by trying to address the problem.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The control structure at Shylte Brook, Much Wenlock. Water management products firm Hydro International was involved with the multi award-winning Much Wenlock flood alleviation scheme, a £2M project initiated by Shropshire Council to reduce flood risk in the small town of Much Wenlock. In 2007, around 64 properties reported flooding to Shropshire Council and an electricity substation caused a power outage to a large part of the town due to the flooding.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The 2020 Ray of Hope Prize. How can biomimicry drive innovation, and which team will win the 2020 Ray of Hope Prize? Biomimicry, the design and production of materials, structures and systems that are modeled on biological strategies and processes, can accelerate the breakthroughs we need to achieve a circular economy. Created in honor of Ray C. Anderson, the founder of Interface and a sustainability pioneer, the $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize sparks the next generation of businesses that seek to le

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Leachate Solutions has introduced what it describes as a more up to date alternative process for the removal of dissolved methane and CO2 from water and leachate. The approach has been designed and developed over a period of eight years and uses alternative technologies to provide a modern solution and an end to the 24/7 aeration system. The firm’s systems are already in use on multiple sites across the Northwest.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Centering Equity and Justice in a Circular Economy. High-quality jobs, affordable places to live, a thriving urban culture, and a healthy human and natural environment can all be part of circular cities. This conversation between public and private practitioners discusses how. Speakers José Manuel Moller Dominguez, CEO & Founder, Algramo Mark Chambers, Director, NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability Heather Clancy, Editorial Director, GreenBiz Group.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Wastewater, sewage, effluents and sludge are useful sources of energy with the potential to heat (or in some circumstances cool) other products or materials in industrial processes. The DTR Series of double tube heat exchangers from HRS is designed to maximise direct (product-to-product) energy recovery from such low viscosity materials, allowing valuable heat to be recaptured before the effluent enters final treatment or is discharged to the environment.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Accelerate at Circularity 20: Fast-Pitch Competition. At Circularity 20, GreenBiz’s online circular economy event, five startups presented their potentially world-altering ideas during the Accelerate competition. This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute pitch of their technology to the audience.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Leading manufacturer of environmental monitoring and remediation equipment, QED Environmental Systems, will be adding the innovative SEM5000 into its Geotech product range, later this year. The SEM5000 is a portable methane detector specially designed for landfill surface emissions monitoring, reporting and detecting potential leaks at wellheads and surface penetrations.

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Methane Patents Innovation Technology 130

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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Circularity in This Moment. What is the state of the circular economy today, how can we encourage stakeholders to adopt its principles, and what systemic shifts should we prioritize to advance this model’s future? Speakers. Ellen MacArthur, Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group. Holly Secon. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 22:12.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Environmental Science Ltd (ESL) is to expand and restructure its business, with a move into the development, manufacture and distribution of hygiene products, including hand sanitisers, sprays, medicated soaps, surface and floor wipes and disinfectants. The move follows the changed circumstances brought about by Covid-19, and is an add-on to the firm’s existing core activities in areas like identifying chemical hazards and providing on-site COSHH monitoring.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

No Throwaway Resources, No Throwaway Kids. Ovie Mughelli is a former NFL football fullback with the Atlanta Falcons and the founder of the Ovie Mughelli Foundation, an environmental justice advocacy group. He spoke at Circularity 20 about how to make a more sustainable world that prioritizes disadvantaged youth. Holly Secon. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 22:15.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In January, the world's largest asset manager issued a warning shot that the status quo on climate change is not going to cut it. In his annual letter, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote: “We don’t yet know which predictions about the climate will be most accurate, nor what effects we have failed to consider. But there is no denying the direction we are heading.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Biotic reinterprets Brasilia's superblocks into communities focused on nature and green technology.

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LA CleanTech Incubator

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

LACI recently welcomed its fifth cohort of LACI Innovators—16 startup businesses seeking to change the world for the better. This year’s cohort includes companies that are innovating to make the power grid cleaner and work better; to move LA toward an electric transportation future; and to reduce waste in our environment. Through Cohort 5 and. Read more » The post LACI Welcomes Cohort 5 of Innovators appeared first on LACI.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

A stunning example of reuse.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Commercial EV startup Xos Trucks , formerly known as Thor Trucks , has raised $20 million in new funding from a group of investors including Proeza Ventures and BUILD Capital Group. Xos will use the capital to scale up production of its X-Platform chassis. The company anticipates a surge in demand following CARB’s new zero-emissions mandate for commercial vehicles.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The upending of this school year has made almost every parent, willingly or not, a participant in the radical transformation of education. Some of the most far-reaching proposals for reinventing elementary, middle and high schools run into a well-founded objection: while all that might be fine for relatively affluent, largely white families, what about lower-income.

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Education 124

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As satellite imagery proves to be increasingly valuable across the globe, Planet continues to focus on Europe with timely event coverage and international partnerships, including ongoing projects in European countries across multiple vertical markets, as well as mapping with both commercial and government organizations. In September 2019, Planet partnered with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO) to provide high spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery to

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 8 – In well-functioning capital markets, expected returns on investment match the risk. In the fragmented agricultural markets of sub-Saharan Africa, risk in lending to small and midsize enterprises is perceived to be twice as high as other sectors, while returns are 4-5% lower. Aceli Africa and Dalberg, which analyzed more than 9,000 transactions.

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Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The largest U.S. automaker is partnering with the hydrogen truck startup to produce Nikola's electric pickup and will provide battery and fuel cell technology. GM is also taking an 11% stake in Nikola.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 8 – German automaker Daimler has issued a €1 billion ($1.2 billion), 10-year bond to transition to clean cars. Daimler’s bond follows a €500 million issuance from Spain’s Banco de Sabadell last week. In other firsts, Germany and Sweden both floated their first sovereign green bonds last week. Germany raised €6.5 billion with.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Referrals are sales generated by word of mouth, often from former customers and through relationships developed with businesses in adjacent industries. Solar contractors, especially those working in regional residential markets, attribute a large stake of their sales to jobs well done. “It’s all about customer experience. Nobody’s going to refer you if they didn’t have… The post Referrals are a positive side effect of strong solar customer relationships appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GatesNotes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Across the world incredible people are stepping up to care for those in need during COVID-19.

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