A surge of new plastic production is on the way
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2020
Major oil companies, facing the prospect of reduced demand for their fuels, are ramping up their plastics output.
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Ramboll helps Lombok locals build earthquake-resistant bamboo housing
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2020
Back in 2018 when Lombok was struck by several earthquakes, some of which measured up to magnitude 7, local communities around the seismic region were greatly affected by loss. After the series of earthquakes settled, there were over 500 dead, 129,000 homes damages and 445,000 people homeless.
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Grant awarded for facility to convert waste plastic to hydrogen
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Hydrogen fuel pumps at a service station in Washington DC, USA: The fuel generated by the Ellesmore Port facility will be used locally to power transport. A firm developing hydrogen production from waste plastic has been offered a conditional £1.25m grant for a planned plastics-to-hydrogen facility at Protos, near Ellesmere Port. Waste2Tricity , the company developing the technology – dubbed DMG®, short for “Distributed Modular System” – says there has been significant pr
A Brief 100-Year History Of Iran-West Relationships
Jim Conca
JANUARY 17, 2020
History is amazing and fascinating. Unfortunately, Americans have lost interest in the subject. Most think the present hostilities with Iran stem from the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the United States hostage crisis that followed. But the issues go back much further than that.
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.
Inspecting pipelines with OGI
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
FLIR Systems has published a new application spotlight that highlights the role its Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) cameras are playing in detecting gas leaks from oil and gas pipelines. These often stretch long distances, carrying a variety of materials. Sometimes the pipes fail, resulting in liquid leaks or fugitive emissions. Through routine inspections, leaks may be caught early-but this is challenging to accomplish when there are many miles of pipelines in a system, and they are often in remote l
Airstream unveils new 2020 camper with smart technology
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2020
Airstream is a long-standing American legend beloved by many roaming road warriors, but now the iconic campers have been given a sleek modern makeover.
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How can we adapt to climate change? This online hub has answers
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2020
A database of practical tools, case studies, state and regional action plans, and other resources offers lessons on building resiliency.
The Haeckels Victorian-style bathing machine has a sauna inside
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2020
Is there anything better than self-care by the sea? UK-based skincare brand Haeckels is on a mission to reintroduce the local community of Margate Beach to the healing powers of the ocean.
Episode 203: Conversations about the State of Green Business
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2020
Plus, an interview with John Schulz, director of sustainability integration at AT&T, and outtakes from the State of Green Business webcast.
Heat recovery from waste
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Zero Liquid Discharge, or ZLD, is a technique which aims to discharge no liquid waste to the environment, instead recovering as many products from the ‘waste’ stream as possible and leaving just water, which can be re-used. Depending on the nature of the initial waste stream, and the effectiveness of the evaporation system and any post-evaporation treatment, the water can then be used for various purposes including cleaning, as a heating or cooling fluid, or even inclusion into other products.
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.
Polysilicon Industry Awaits Certainty on US-China Trade Deal
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 17, 2020
The trade deal signed between the United States and China this week brought a jolt of positivity to U.S. polysilicon manufacturers, who have for years struggled to stay competitive while tariffs hampered access to the Chinese market, which accounts for more than 90 percent of polysilicon demand. While U.S. polysilicon stocks shot up at the news, any excitement has been tempered.
Governments should prepare for 3m sea-level rise by 2100, says IMechE
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in October 2016. Governments around the world must step up their preparations for a minimum sea level rise of 1 metre this century and be planning for up to 3 metres, according to a report released by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in November. Rising sea levels present society with a significant shift in one of the most fundamental of baselines – the height of high tide.
BlackRock CEO Says Climate Is Reshaping Finance. What Does That Mean?
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 17, 2020
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, is suddenly putting sustainability and climate risk at the center of its investment strategy. “Investors are increasingly.recognizing that climate risk is investment risk. These questions are driving a profound reassessment of risk and asset values. And because capital markets pull future risk forward, we will see changes in capital allocation more quickly than we see changes to the climate itself,” wrote BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in
Monitoring nuisance odours
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Odour nuisance is one of the most difficult issues facing many sites today. When a complaint is made, it’s essential that a reliable and representative air sample is taken as quickly as possible. One of the biggest challenges site operators face is acquiring the capability to effectively take these samples within an appropriate time frame. Automatic samplers such as Odorprep allow samples to be taken immediately, rather than waiting for a technician to get to site, by which time the odour might
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.
Telecommuting has benefits, but here's why employers aren't more flexible
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2020
One of the benefits is getting workers off the road.
Multi-liner pipe project success
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
A multi-disciplinary team of drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc has completed the lining of a drainage pipe nearly 1-km long on behalf of a contractor working for Scottish Water. The project involved installing five separate liners, one of them 200-m long, in a surface water pipe across farmland near Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Drainage and utilities specialist Lanes was commissioned to carry out the lining works by aBV, a joint venture of Amey and Black & Veatch, an infrastructure d
Planet Beyond earbuds combine tech, sustainability and fashion
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2020
These high-tech earbuds double as unique jewelry.
Versatile data logging
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Tinytag Instrumentation data loggers can be connected to a variety of third-party sensors, enabling the user to measure properties such as pressure, flow rate, carbon dioxide, solar radiation, rainfall, and footfall, to name a few. The data loggers are available in two models: robust Plus 2 loggers have waterproof casing and are ideal for rugged outdoor applications, while the View 2 model has a digital display for spot-readings and hardy splash-proof casing.
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?
New Marine Education Center in Malm raises climate change awareness
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2020
In Malmo, Sweden, the recently completed Marine Education Center is giving visitors a closer look at the effects of climate change and sustainable technology.
Air sampler flow calibration
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Regulatory compliance, customer confidence, due diligence, quality or measurement uncertainty are just a few of the factors that may contribute to the decision-making process of using a UKAS accredited laboratory. The Young Calibration Laboratory can offer both non-accredited and accredited calibrations to satisfy customer preference. In some instances, a non-accredited calibration may suffice, whilst other times may demand an accredited calibration.
An Alternative Approach to Dealing with the Retiring 30% of the Water Workforce
Varuna
JANUARY 17, 2020
It is not news to anyone who is involved in the utility industry that the workforce is retiring at a rate that the utility is unable to replace. In the water industry, it is projected that 30% of the workforce will be retiring over the next few years. According to the Brookings Institute, 1.7M people were involved in the operation, design, governing and management of U.S. water infrastructure.
LIMS improves water testing efficiency
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
A new case study has been published by Autoscribe Informatics which apparently shows how the Culligan Analytical Lab in Illinois, US has made significant improvements in laboratory efficiency by using the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). Culligan Water provides innovative water treatment solutions to domestic, commercial and industrial markets.
Rhode Island aims for 100% renewables by 2030
Solar Power World
JANUARY 17, 2020
The rapidly growing group of states looking to thwart climate change by adopting 100% renewable energy policies has a new member. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order today establishing the goal of meeting all of the state’s electricity needs with renewable energy by 2030. The state’s Office of Energy Resources is now… The post Rhode Island aims for 100% renewables by 2030 appeared first on Solar Power World.
Optimising ecotoxicology
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Postnova Analytics has posted a webinar on how advanced analytical techniques are impacting the field of nanogeochemistry. It discusses the advanced analytical approaches that are used to apply Asymmetric Flow Field-Flow Fractionation with online UV-Visible and ICP-MS detectors to nano-geochemical systems in the SWAMP (Soils, Water, Air, Manures, and Plants) laboratory, at the University of Alberta, Canada ( [link] ).
How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 17, 2020
Read time: 14 mins By Tara Lohan , The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revalator. Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sand mine that threatened the region’s aquifer.
Radar reaches a new level
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
In recent decades, non-contact level measurement technologies based on ultrasonic or radar-based ranging have become an indispensable means of measuring the quantities of liquids or solids remaining in containers like tanks, silos and IBCs, as well as controlling pumps and monitoring water and flood levels. Level radars offer extremely resilient performance in challenging applications – at a price – but that is now changing, says VEGA Controls.
Why Climate Advocacy is Justice Advocacy
Defend Our Future
JANUARY 17, 2020
As we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. to advance equal rights, a new study found that many racist housing policies of the mid-twentieth century led to greater heatwave risks in vulnerable neighborhoods. “Redlining” was a common practice of systematically denying public and private investments in communities of color. Banks deemed the neighborhoods risky investments, so African Americans were denied home ownership and insurance.
REDEEMing pumping stations for eels
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Dr Jon Bolland of the University of Hull’s International Fisheries Institute (HIFI) discusses a new project that aims to make pumping equipment more amenable to aquatic life. Environmental DNA: HIFI is optimising molecular techniques that detect DNA left behind in river water by resident fish. Researchers at the HIFI have formed the REDEEM project in collaboration with the Environment Agency , the industry group ADA and various IDBs to REsearch and Develop fish and Eel Entrainment Mitigati
Not all solar customers are the same, so adjust your sales approach to their needs
Solar Power World
JANUARY 17, 2020
By Carletta Clyatt, senior VP, The Omnia Group Whether through bias, habit or work weariness, we often expect people to want what we want and be motivated by the same things we are. In the sales profession, this attitude is especially dangerous. Customers are not the same; they have different needs and different reasons for… The post Not all solar customers are the same, so adjust your sales approach to their needs appeared first on Solar Power World.
Tackling odour issues in wastewater treatment
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Dr Chris Charles of Genesis Biosciences discusses the use of biological products for this purpose. It’s no surprise that a facility dealing with wastewater generated by a local population will have a distinct odour. Complex organic materials from a multitude of sources combine to produce an array of malodours, from rotting eggs and cabbage to eye-stinging ammonia, but rest assured there are solutions to combat the pong.
Onvector Uses Electricity to Treat Wastewater, Reducing Reliance on Chemicals
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 17, 2020
Father and son Young and Dan Cho are determined to change the way we treat industrial wastewater. Their company, Onvector , takes an electrical, non-chemical approach. Onvector’s Plasma Vortex technology saves both water and energy by preventing environmental pollution from chemicals and avoiding burning wastewater. The Plasma Vortex system is 97 percent more energy efficient than incinerating highly contaminated water, according to Dan, Onvector’s CEO.
Deodorising oxidisers make the grade
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
A provider of industrial process heating equipment, Babcock Wanson has provided animal by-products processor and recycler, P Waddington & Co (1947) Ltd , with what is said to be a highly efficient solution for odour abatement and process steam production at its site in Bradford, West Yorkshire. P Waddington & Co recycles all animal by-products into energy and biofuels through its tallow, meat and bonemeal products.
Amazon Wins with Climate Action and Fails by Silencing their Employee's Climate Advocacy
Green Market Oracle
JANUARY 17, 2020
In less than six months Amazon has gone from being a climate champion to a corporate villain. Despite an ambitious climate plan and renewable energy leadership employees are being threatened for demanding that the company do more. An employee letter that circulated in April gained the support of more than 7,500 Amazon employees. It called for a resolution demanding aggressive climate plan.
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