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Waste work shift: Inside the structural changes in the global waste sector

GreenBiz

Informal waste workers have long managed the waste of the South, for whom new forms of collectives offer new hope, while the gig economy threatens to de-formalize waste management in the North.

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Remind Me Again-Why Are We On Social Media?

Michael Grossman

"If all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off it too?"--my mother. In today's business world, it's a given your company needs a social media strategy. My favorite question in the last year or so is to ask why. Here are the three most typical ways in which that conversation starts. Scenario #1 --Start up--a company using online professional services portal sends out a request for social media help to sell more of their product or service, OR to advertise on Facebook, OR to gain

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Event - Environmental Pollution and Health

Green Market Oracle

The 2nd Annual Congress on Environmental Pollution and Health will take place on October 21-22, 2019 Sydney, Australia. The theme is: "Sustainable Environmental Practices for Reducing Global Pollution and related Health hazards". This year's Congress will offer a global platform to share thoughts on recent advances and technological breakthroughs in the Pollution and Health sector.

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Waste work shift: Inside the structural changes in the global waste sector

AGreenLiving

Informal waste workers have long managed the waste of the South, for whom new forms of collectives offer new hope, while the gig economy threatens to de-formalize waste management in the North. More here: Waste work shift: Inside the structural changes in the global waste sector.

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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.

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Dominion Buys Pipeline Support at Supreme Court Through GOP Attorneys General

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 3 mins By Kelly Roache, crossposted with permission from Energy and Policy Institute. With the US Supreme Court poised to decide this month whether it will review a ruling key to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s future, majority-owner of the project Dominion Energy has received support in its case from Republican state Attorneys General and the US Department of Justice.

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Tesla Model 3 = 6th Best Selling Car In USA In 3rd Quarter*

CleanTechnica

The Tesla Model 3's #6 position in 3rd quarter US car sales* seems both shockingly high and surprisingly low at the same time. No, this is not a trick — I'm serious.

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What Motivates Someone To Key A Tesla?

CleanTechnica

What motivates people to key a Tesla? Why all the hate? Police in Broomfield, Colorado, have identified a woman who was caught by Sentry Mode keying a Tesla Model 3, according to CBS Denver. You may have seen the video on Twitter and Facebook of the woman, who just walked up and keyed the vehicle.

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Greta Thunberg Leads Iowa Students In Pop-Up Climate Strike

CleanTechnica

When Greta Thunberg decided to visit a climate activist friend in Iowa City last week, 3,000 people showed up to greet her.

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The Tough Task Of Persuading A Climate Denier

CleanTechnica

What strategies are you using to persuade the climate deniers in your life to accept the reality around them.

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The Economizer — A Solution For Electric Buses

CleanTechnica

Electric power systems in electric buses have excellent operating parameters, are quiet and highly efficient, and make it possible to recover energy while braking. Yet to make these electric power systems more available to the public transportation sector, there needs to be a better focus on extended range.

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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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Tesla Vehicle Efficiency Leads Industry Thanks To Tesla Vehicle Design Culture

CleanTechnica

More range! More range! That’s the mantra that has replaced the "More power!" of the internal combustion engine (ICE) era. How much range is enough? All we know at this point is that car buyers want more. Tesla, always attuned to consumer desires, upped the stakes once again in April, increasing the range of Model S to what Road & Track colorfully calls “a bladder-busting 370 miles.

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I Invest In Tesla Because I Believe In Elon Musk

CleanTechnica

I invest in Tesla because I believe in Elon Musk, and what he and Tesla are doing for our world. There's more, though. I am writing this because I want to address something I've seen in my Twitter feed all too often.

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International Research Team Claims New Perovskite Solar Record — 18.1%

CleanTechnica

A team of international researchers claim to have created a perovskite solar cell with the highest efficiency ever recorded -- 18.1%.

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Global Shipping Is Making False Impressions About Circumventing Pollution — Billions Spent On “Cheat Devices”

CleanTechnica

Water goes everywhere. It reaches places and distances that other things can't with such flexibility and ingenuity. To attach pollutants to that ingenious reach is counter to intelligence and consciousness.

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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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Western Australia Utility Removing Poles & Wires In Renewable Energy Transition

CleanTechnica

Utility companies and grid operators in Western Australia are taking down poles and wires and replacing them with standalone systems that use solar panels, inverters, and batteries to create local microgrids.

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Tesla’s End-of-Quarter Rush — Avoidable or Unavoidable?

CleanTechnica

Tesla end-of-quarter rush is unavoidable, inevitable, inescapable, necessary, unescapable, needed. We all hate Tesla's end-of-quarter delivery hell. It is the price Tesla pays for its direct sales model. Other companies also try to score some extra sales at the end of a period, but no one gets into a frenzy like Tesla.