The sustainable agrifood system puzzle
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FEBRUARY 20, 2023
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Automation for the people: reducing injury in quarrying
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Harrowing statistics from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work state that quarry workers are twice as likely to be killed in an accident than construction workers, and thirteen times more likely than those working in manufacturing. There’s no doubt the industry can be dangerous, but how can mechanical automation support health and safety in the sector?
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5 ocean moments to watch in 2023
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
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How To Sustain A Carbon-Neutral Lifestyle
The Environmental Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Carbon Neutral and ESG Concepts. Carbon Emission, Clean Energy. Globe Balancing between a Green leaf and CO2. Sustainable Resources, Concern about Environmental. Plant a Tree Sign As climate change continues to create widespread disruptions in the form of higher temperatures and extreme weather events, switching to a carbon-neutral lifestyle has become necessary for everyone.
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.
Emerging solutions for EV DC-DC converter design and testing
Charged
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Innovations in bidirectional and regenerative braking power applications, together with higher-density batteries and wide-bandgap semiconductors, are adding power and range to the electric vehicle (EV). This high-power EV ecosystem demands reliable and efficient DC-DC power conversion. Energy efficiency depends on many factors, including temperature, operating voltage, percentage of rated power, and other environmental conditions.
PVH presents CONNECT a real time logistics tracking application
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FEBRUARY 20, 2023
• In 2022 PVH has been consolidated as the leading manufacturer and supplier of solar trackers and structures in Europe, Middle East and Australia.
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South Australia: Grid with the most wind and solar has the smallest reliability gap
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Conservative technology deniers take note: The Australian state charging towards 100 per cent wind and solar has the smallest reliability gap. The post South Australia: Grid with the most wind and solar has the smallest reliability gap appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Panasonic Shows Church bright spot in adding rooftop solar panels
Green Living Guy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Meadville in Pennsylvania is eagerly anticipating the installation of solar panels on the rooftop of their building. The array is estimated to generate 14.8 kilowatts of energy. Thereby providing a significant cost saving to the church. The solar panel installation is projected to become operational in the coming month.
New solar records take module efficiency and output to fresh highs
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Chinese solar module maker Risen Energy achieves new pair of records for its HJT Hyper-ion 700W+ solar module series. The post New solar records take module efficiency and output to fresh highs appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Up in smoke: Cities grapple with run on wood-burning stoves
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The smoky emissions from burning wood have serious health impacts — particularly in dense urban areas. The problem is acute in London, where smoke from wood-burning stoves adds to the already high levels of vehicle pollution, causing severe pollution hot spots POLITICO EU BY ASHLEIGH FURLONG FEBRUARY 15, 2023 This article is part of POLITICO’s Global.
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.
Snowy delays add supply tensions to grid, but new big batteries ease short term worries
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
AEMO says big batteries have eased short term supply issues, but more capacity urgently needed and Snowy projects delays loom over grid. The post Snowy delays add supply tensions to grid, but new big batteries ease short term worries appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Ready for a Long-Term Relationship?
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
How did your current long-term relationship start? At a gathering with beverages? Maybe a shared meal? Possibly sought out on-line? So how will your new long-term relationship with truck electrification start? Have you shared a meal or beverages with people in the trucking industry? Have you started looking on-line? What are you waiting for? Truck show season has begun again for 2023.
Safeguard mechanism will “syphon” investment away from renewables, report warns
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
New report warns Safeguard Mechanism will shift investment to the offset market, with evidence a shift in climate capital is already underway. The post Safeguard mechanism will “syphon” investment away from renewables, report warns appeared first on RenewEconomy.
'Spectacular growth': Europe's heat pump sales pass 20 million mark after record year
Business Green
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Heat pumps now warm more than one-in-eight of Europe's commercial and residential buildings following another record-breaking year The total number of heat pumps across Europe now stands at around 20 million, with the low carbon technology providing heating to around 16 per cent of the continent's residential and commercial buildings, according to new data.
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.
Coal boss named new head of first big network company to reach 100% renewables
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
SA Power Networks hires the head of a Queensland coal generator as its new CEO to lead transition to 100 per cent renewables. The post Coal boss named new head of first big network company to reach 100% renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Grant Shapps hints at action on nuclear and renewables in pursuit of 'cheapest energy in Europe'
Business Green
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
As renewables industry calls for a renewed push to retain UK clean energy leadership, the new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary indicates plans are afoot for new nuclear projects, strengthened offshore wind goals, and a solar rooftop boom Grant Shapps this week gave his first major interview since taking on the new role of Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, sketching out plans to deliver on the UK's climate goals while securing "the cheapest energy in Europe".
Transgrid trials innovative technique for recycling aged transmission lines
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Transgrid is using German technology to recycle spent transmission lines in situ, cutting down on waste and emissions and saving money. The post Transgrid trials innovative technique for recycling aged transmission lines appeared first on RenewEconomy.
LNG: the three letters that have forever changed the European energy paradigm…
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Liquefied natural gas, which arrives frozen by ship, already covers 40% of European needs, a figure that will continue to grow. Russia has practically no chance of becoming the EU's main supplier again. EL PAÍS BY IGNACIO FARIZA MADRID - 20 FEB 2023 Europe is approaching the sad anniversary of the day it woke up as a different Europe. The Russian offensive, even before.
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?
Grid operator needs to dial in EVs to support huge pipeline of wind, solar and storage
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
EVs will play a key role in balancing supply and demand on the main grid, even assuming only 10-20% of this mobile battery bank can be utilised daily. The post Grid operator needs to dial in EVs to support huge pipeline of wind, solar and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Competition can put Spice into Sustainability
Terra Infirma
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
When I was younger and musing on what future family life might hold, I would never have guessed I’d have three sporty kids. The eldest isn’t into ball sports but can run, cycle or swim much better/further than I could at the same age, middle child plays rugby for a local club twice a week and the youngest is a dead keen footballer and turns out for a club as well as his school.
In Sonora, President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, declares more than 230,000 hectares a lithium mining reserve zone…
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The oil and lithium belong to the nation, they belong to the people of Mexico and to all those who live in this region of Sonora, says the president. PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC : 18 FEBRUARY 2023 : PRESS RELEASE In Sonora, President AMLO declares more than 230,000 hectares a lithium mining reserve zone Bacadéhuachi, Sonora, 18 February 2023 - President Andrés Manuel López.
Test Drive Results 2023 Toyota Prius Hybrid Electric Car
Green Living Guy
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The all-new 2023 Prius will be available in a choice of six colors. That’s including: Wind Chill Pearl Cutting Edge Guardian Gray Midnight Black Metallic Supersonic Red or Reservoir Blue. In addition, the MSRP, excluding Dealer Processing and Handling, will start at $27,450 for the LE grade. I mean 2023 Toyota Prius models are […] The post Test Drive Results 2023 Toyota Prius Hybrid Electric Car appeared first on Green Living Guy.
CrossWind Orders Elogen Electrolyser for Hollandse Kust Noord
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco developing the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm off the Netherlands, has signed a contract with Elogen, a Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) group company, to design and manufacture a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyser with a power of 2.5 MW. Offshore Wind and Hydrogen.
'You deserve better': Labour leader aims to cultivate 'new relationship' with British farming
Business Green
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Keir Starmer responds to National Farmers' Union (NFU) warnings that 'clock is ticking' on British agriculture with promises on international trade, homegrown produce, and rural crime Labour leader Keir Starmer will today set out plans for a new approach to governing British agriculture promising farmers a raft of pledges to boost domestic production, enhance international trade, and tackle rural crime in an address to the NFU conference in Birmingham.
Scotland | European Hydrogen Backbone
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
European Hydrogen Backbone European Hydrogen Backbone, 2023 I already shared a number of articles with the community around the European Hydrogen Backbone which is gaining traction amongst corporate investors. Project-union-offshore-energy-islands Reading the country updates, it was interesting to see Moffat mentioned in the narrative and likely with the Irish.
NatWest's Alison Rose appointed co-chair of new Energy Efficiency Taskforce
Business Green
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Government taskforce formally launched today with remit to support goal of cutting UK energy use 15 per cent by 2030 The government will tomorrow launch its new Energy Efficiency Taskforce, confirming that NatWest CEO Alison Rose has been appointed co-chair alongside Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Lord Callanan. The new taskforce will be debuted at an event in East London attended by nearly 100 business leaders from across the green economy, as well as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Energy Secur
Towards a Fuel Hydrogen Economy in the Calgary Region
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Global climate change, materializing as severe storms, heat waves, floods, and droughts, are taking lives, threatening wars, and damaging economies around the world. To address this challenge, more than 70 countries, including Canada, have set net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets by mid-century. In Canada, 57% of national GHG emissions are associated with the distributed combustion.
Why corporate scenario planning needs to move beyond risk
Business Green
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
A constant eye to emerging futures can enable businesses to move towards a socially just, regenerative approach, writes Forum for the Future's Alisha Bhagat We are currently in a period of change and instability, where old systems are fading and a new system has yet to emerge. This could be described by future generations as a time of "interregnum", or, an interval between two periods.
European gas news: Weekly summary (13/02-17/02/2023)
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Below, there is a short review on what happened this week on European gas market. So, let's go: Europe is on course to end the winter with a near-record volume of gas in storage because of industrial closures, high prices and a milder-than-normal weather. Exceptionally high prices have forced energy-intensive industries, including makers of fertilizer, steel, chemicals, ceramics.
'Mishmash of methodologies': WWF warns consistent emissions reporting standards urgently required
Business Green
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
New analysis from WWF reveals GHG accounting efforts are undermined by disparate tools that make comparing corporate emissions 'nearly impossible' Variability in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting standards is preventing companies from understanding their true emissions and hindering progress to reduce them. That is the conclusion of a new analysis released late last week by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which warns that the plethora of different emissions reporting standards coiuld prove counterp
VSB Group - Siemens Gamesa, VSB and Max Bögl cooperate on one of Europe's largest repowering projects
Global Renewable News
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
At the Elster wind farm in Saxony-Anhalt, 50.
'Taste Me, Don't Waste Me': Sainsbury's rolls out food waste-busting fruit and veg boxes
Business Green
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
New £2 fruit and vegetable boxes launching in over 200 stores in a bid to encourage customers to purchase surplus products Supermarket giant Sainsbury's is to sell a new range of fruit and vegetable boxes for just £2 in more than 200 stories nationwide following a successful trial designed to reduce levels of food waste. Available from this week onwards, the 'Taste Me, Don't Waste Me' boxes are part of the retailer's efforts to halve food waste across its value chain by 2030 while helping
Hydro-Québec - Acquisition of New England hydropower fleet is finalized
Global Renewable News
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The acquisition of Great River Hydro, LLC,
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