Mon.Nov 08, 2021

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Combating climate change: A study of embodied carbon

GreenBiz

A retrospective study of Portland’s iconic Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building sheds light on how the design and construction industry can do more to combat global warming.

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Old New York school will be re-used into a community center

Inhabitat - Innovation

A team of professionals, including architects, designers and construction contractors, have been selected by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development to redesign and develop the East Harlem Multi-Service Center. Located on 413 East 120th St., the historic school building will be redesigned to become a multi-purpose community center.

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Mark Carney’s $130 trillion funding for net zero: Is he good for it?

GreenBiz

As a headline, it is big, splashy and promising: a coalition full of financial giants pledges a colossal sum to address climate change. But can that pledge be counted on?

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Massive electric vehicle charging system coming to L.A.

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a $6 million grant to build one of the largest electric vehicle fleet charging systems in the United States. The system will be fully powered by a solar and storage microgrid.

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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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What is a climate-competent board?

GreenBiz

For corporate boards, the focus is shifting from how a company’s activities impact climate to how climate will potentially impact the company’s own financial performance.

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Meet The Line, a sustainable design that looks like a ship

Inhabitat - Innovation

From a distance, you would think that The Line — a recently completed residential high-rise building in Amsterdam — is a moored ship. On the IJ Waterway at the heart of Amsterdam's Overhoeks district, The Line embodies sociable, sustainable design.

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New facility to create 400,000 pounds of lab-grown meat a year

Inhabitat - Innovation

Goodbye slaughterhouses, hello humane future. UPSIDE Foods just opened a major production facility to produce lab-grown meat.

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The business of COP is business

GreenBiz

COP26 is showcasing private-sector solutions at a time when policymakers are at loggerheads.

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Park and Polk is a mixed-use building shaped like an H

Inhabitat - Innovation

San Diego, California is the site of a new mixed-use building, located between the Hillcrest and University Heights parts of town at a site that sat barren and empty for ten years. Developed by Jonathan Segal Architect, the building is known as Park and Polk.

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The stars are aligning for sustainable business

GreenBiz

ESG is dominating discourse, and the profession is centering around these 5 frameworks.

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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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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. That doesn’t mean to just shrug and say “let’s make the best of it”, but rather to embrace – as an accompaniment to ever more concerted emissions reduction – planning for a world that is changing drastically, as Envirotec discovered.

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Can we have our (happy) beef and eat it too?

GreenBiz

With global meat consumption climbing, is a humane, low-carbon animal agriculture system possible?

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Wastewater treatment goes natural in Yorks

Envirotec Magazine

Sustainable wastewater treatment is underway at Yorkshire Water’ s Clifton wastewater treatment works, near Doncaster after the planting of 20,000 wetland plants. The site has been transformed into an integrated constructed wetland, with the clay in the ponds and the plants naturally removing phosphorus from treated wastewater before it is returned to the environment.

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DEPCOM’s 3R Business Expands, Helping to Restore Power Fast After Natural Disasters

altenergymag

DEPCOM Power, expands its restoration and repowering services to minimize losses, boost performance of utility PV assets. DEPCOM's 3R business helps restore power after natural disasters. In a recent project, DEPCOM's equipment salvage and restoration efforts saved $6.5 million for the owner of a 92-MW flooded plant in the Southeast.

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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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Fume faculties

Envirotec Magazine

Underpinning the effort to comply with marine emissions regulations is the monitoring of these exhaust gases, and instrumentation seems an indispensable support for marine operators under pressure to make good decisions with respect to things like fuel selection and the specification of scrubber systems. Envirotec asked continuous emissions monitoring expert Protea for insight into the topic.

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Former steel mill covered in solar panels shines new light on Pittsburgh

Solar Power World

Abandoned steel mills are a common sight in the Rust Belt region. Communities formed around these factories as the steel industry boomed, employing thousands of people at a time, but many suffered economic collapse and began shuttering in the 1970s. Contractor’s Corner by Solar Power World · The Case for Solar: Covering rust with solar… The post Former steel mill covered in solar panels shines new light on Pittsburgh appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Strategic moves and sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

Environmental risk reduction specialist Adler and Allan has launched several new services and strategies. It has also appointed a new Sustainability Manager to the business to embed sustainability at the heart of its growth strategy. Dan Ellis (pictured, above) joins the business from Delta-Simons where he was Principal Sustainability Consultant. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the sustainability, carbon reduction and ESG sphere.

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The NEW BSL Battery BOX 48V LifePo4 Solar Battery Storage 5.12-30.7kWh

altenergymag

The new BSL Battery BOX 48V LiFePo4 solar battery storage system is based on a new concept designed to meet a wider range of usage scenarios.

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Paint predominates in ocean plastics

Envirotec Magazine

Flakes of paint could be one of the most abundant types of microplastic particle in the ocean, according to new research. A microscopic paint flake, measuring around 320 ?m in diameter, collected during a CPR survey in the Southern North Sea. Through a range of surveys conducted across the North Atlantic Ocean, a group estimated that each cubic metre of seawater contained an average of 0.01 paint flakes.

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Turning Your Patio into a Sustainable Home Office

Green Living Guy

If your home has a backyard, a patio is the best way to maximize it. This is where you can hang out with your family but also get some work done. Working from home means having a proper home office, so why don’t you turn your patio into one? And if you do this properly, […]. The post Turning Your Patio into a Sustainable Home Office appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Quick characterisation of critical thermal data

Envirotec Magazine

The Research Studio software in action. Intelligent sensing solutions firm FLIR (part of Teledyne Technologies) has released the latest versions of FLIR Research Studio software. This new release includes both a Professional Edition with FLIR Research Studio Player—designed for research and science applications requiring robust data capture and analysis—and an upgraded version of the FLIR Research Studio Standard Edition.

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Best Essential Oils For Calming Anxious Feelings & Better Sleep

Green Living Guy

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental fitness conditions in the US. The Anxiety & Depression Association of America approximates that roughly forty million American grownups (18.1 percent of the population) are impacted by anxiety every year. There are countless proven ways to cure anxiety ailments, including mindfulness, medication, and psychotherapy.

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What is vertical farming? Why is it growing in the UK?

Envirotec Magazine

Lettuce farming, vertical-style. Vertical farming is where crops are grown, usually indoors, in stacked layers. The farmer can control the environment – lighting, temperature and water provision – without having to suffer the vagaries of the weather. For reasons that should be obvious, it is an attractive proposition in the UK. And it is growing globally. in 2018, it was worth ÂŁ1.72 billion and set to rise to ÂŁ9.84 billion by 2026.

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Silicon Mobility and G-Pulse design bidirectional DC-DC converter platform

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Silicon Mobility and controls supplier G-Pulse are collaborating to design a high-power multiphase interleaving bidirectional DC-DC converter platform for electrified vehicles. The platform is based on Silicon Mobility’s OLEA control technology, together with a SiC power module, and benefits from G-Pulse’s engineering experience with automotive systems.

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A pumps package for quarry dewatering

Envirotec Magazine

Pump Supplies has developed turnkey pumping systems to control and manage water levels and discharge flows in an effective and efficient way for UK quarrying companies. The system includes a bespoke monitoring and control solution that delivers the precise information and control to the pumping system to ensure that discharges are managed within the agreed compliance criteria.

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AMPLY Power’s new containerized EV fleet charging solution

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Fleet charging management specialist AMPLY Power has introduced a containerized EV charging system called INRUSH. The first deployment will be with AMPLY’s long-standing customer, the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN). AMPLY will set up a charging facility using its INRUSH charging capsules and OMEGA Charge Management System to support ATN’s fleet of 46 electric transit buses.

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Leading the charge: One-stop installation

Envirotec Magazine

Darcy has introduced a new end-to-end service for the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging points for commercial and industrial customers, called Devitech. In commercial environments, EV charging points provide valuable support for on-site staff as well as customers visiting the premises. As such, they are becoming an increasing consideration among facilities managers looking to equip their premises for a more electric future.

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CharIN announces 5th North America Conference and Testival

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The Charging Interface Initiative (CharIN) is a trade association that promotes the Combined Charging Standard (CCS). A major aspect of its work is to facilitate real-world testing of its members’ products. Now CharIN has announced that the 5th North America Conference and Testival will take place at Lucid Motors Headquarters in Newark, California on November 16-18, 2021.

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Sensitive and selective leap

Envirotec Magazine

An entirely new class of gas sensor seems in evidence with work recently published in Advanced Materials, which combines a graphene transistor and a customised metal-organic coating. The sensor detects molecules of ethanol with high specificity, responding to neither other alcohols nor humidity. The sensor comprises a graphene field-effect transistor upon which a surface-mounted metal-organic framework has been grown.

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What’s in the final bipartisan infrastructure bill for clean energy

Renewable Energy World

Follow @EngelsAngle. Renewable energy advocates celebrated Congress' passing of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill , which includes billions of dollars for renewable energy projects and research. President Joe Biden called the funding package a " once-in-a-generation " investment solar, wind, energy storage, and electric vehicle technologies that will create millions of jobs.

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“The end of the fossil fuel era” may be in sight following COP pledge

Envirotec Magazine

A coal power station in Canock, Staffordshire (image credit: Catherine Poh Huay Tan , CC BY 2.0 license). The end of the fossil fuel era appeared to have come a significant step closer with the signing of a joint commitment to phase out coal on day four of the COP summit (4 November). More than 23 countries have agreed to end investment in new coal power generation, domestically and internationally, including major users of coal such as Indonesia, Poland and South Korea.

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Tesla launches home charger with J1772 connector

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Tesla’s recent move to open its Supercharger stations to other brands’ EVs was momentous, but expected—it was an inevitable step forward that the company announced some months ago. But wait—the Ronco of Renewable Transport has just done something more surprising. It plans to offer a new version of its Wall Connector home charger that’s equipped with a J1772 plug, making it compatible with all North American EVs.

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Prioritising intelligence

Envirotec Magazine

Pump manufacturer Seepex has refined its range of progressive cavity pumps to introduce “the pump generation of the future, today” The unique patented SCT AutoAdjust technology in combination with Seepex digital solutions enables remote adjustment to maintain pump performance at the optimal operating point without onsite manufal intervention.

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Sensata’s new junction boxes support charging at up to 850 volts and 1,300 amps

Charged

Sensata Technologies has released new high-voltage junction boxes designed to provide safe and reliable power distribution for high-power charging of commercial EVs. The new DC charging boxes support megawatt charging of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks at up to 850 volts and 1,300 amps. Combining Sensata’s current production contactor, fuse, and controller components into a smaller package, the new boxes are custom-designed for specific vehicle requirements.