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Are Trees Actually Effective for Carbon Offsetting?

U.S. Green Technology

After the United Nations established the Paris Agreement in 2015, professionals began searching for sustainable climate change solutions. Greenhouse gas emissions are the driving cause of rising global temperatures. Researchers are attempting to limit atmospheric air pollution using trees. Trees can absorb carbon monoxide and release pure oxygen. Many companies are working toward sustainability by.

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Rolls-Royce’s Spirit of Innovation electric plane makes maiden flight

Charged

Rolls-Royce’s all-electric Spirit of Innovation recently took to the skies for the first time. The company hopes to use the sleek and stylish e-plane to set a new world speed record of over 300 mph later this year. The aircraft took off from the UK Ministry of Defence’s storied Boscombe Down site, and flew for approximately 15 minutes. “The first flight marks the beginning of an intense flight-testing phase in which we will be collecting valuable performance data on the aircraft’s electrical pow

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Tips to Choose The Right Solar Panels for A Rooftop

U.S. Green Technology

The world today is looking for new, cheap and green energy options. Once you have decided to “go solar” the next big question is to choose the right solar panels for your property. This is a very important step because obviously you are spending a lot of money on this project and do not want. The post Tips to Choose The Right Solar Panels for A Rooftop appeared first on U.S.

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Four ways DuPont adhesives and resins advance EVs

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Sponsored by Dupont. Much of what drives the advancement of EVs today is what you don’t see. For example, crash-worthy adhesives that bond body and battery components along with performance polymers and thermal interface materials that safely manage battery temperature. At DuPont, we’re developing adhesive and plastic solutions that help automakers worldwide produce EVs that perform better than ever.

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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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Everything You Should Know About Sustainable Gaming in 2021

U.S. Green Technology

When we start analyzing sustainability and environmental issues, gaming is not exactly one of the first topics that pop into anyone’s mind. But, let us not disregard this form of entertainment so easily just yet. With its estimated market worth of $151.55 billion and projected growth to $256.97 billion by 2025 gaming industry is forced. The post Everything You Should Know About Sustainable Gaming in 2021 appeared first on U.S.

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Monday Flashback Story : Golconda Fort – A Sustainable Heritage Fort from Qutb Shahi Architecture

Econaur

Golconda Fort, also known as Golla Konda, is a fortified citadel built by the Kakatiyas and an early capital city of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (c. 1512–1687), located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Because of the vicinity of diamond mines, especially the Kollur Mine, Golconda flourished as a trade center of large diamonds, known as the Continue reading.

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Is craft production sustainable?

Low Impact

At Lowimpact.org we’re interested in helping to bring production back to communities, and so we’re talking with craftspeople, smallholders, natural builders, renewables installers and small business owners in our range of topics. I’ll be asking them about their jobs, and for advice for people who might be interested in doing similar things. This is the second article of three with weaver Eloise Sentito.

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Future heat: How will heat pumps help us achieve net zero?

Business Green

Industry Voice: Mike Thornton, chief executive of the Energy Saving Trust, looks at how to support the supply chain key for future green heating in the UK. Heat pumps are a key low carbon heating system that will help decarbonise heat in homes over the next decade. Meeting the challenge of installing these systems at the pace and scale required to meet net zero targets is crucial.

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Benjamin Gordon Palm Beach Talks about the Pre-Covid Era, the Present and the Post-Covid Era

U.S. Green Technology

Since the time COVID-19 first struck roots, the healthcare industry has undergone several upheavals. But the negative impact is pronounced as compared to the positive one. It is not just the patients that are fighting for their lives, the healthcare workers and the industry have strived to save its warriors and equip the industry so. The post Benjamin Gordon Palm Beach Talks about the Pre-Covid Era, the Present and the Post-Covid Era appeared first on U.S.

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Monday Flashback Story : Golconda Fort – A Sustainable Heritage Fort from Qutb Shahi Architecture

Econaur

Golconda Fort, also known as Golla Konda, is a fortified citadel built by the Kakatiyas and an early capital city of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (c. 1512–1687), located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Because of the vicinity of diamond mines, especially the Kollur Mine, Golconda flourished as a trade center of large diamonds, known as the Golconda Diamonds.

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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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Vegan Shoes: The Complete Guide to the Ethical Footwear Dilemma

Unsustainable

In this modern age of ruthless consumerism, someone or something is always invariably exploited; our wardrobe being no exception.

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Monday Flashback Story : Golconda Fort – A Sustainable Heritage Fort from Qutb Shahi Architecture

Econaur

Golconda Fort, also known as Golla Konda, is a fortified citadel built by the Kakatiyas and an early capital city of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (c. 1512–1687), located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Because of the vicinity of diamond mines, especially the Kollur Mine, Golconda flourished as a trade center of large diamonds, known as the Golconda Diamonds.

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Report: Global renewable energy robotics market to be worth £1.3bn by 2030

Business Green

ORE Catapult forecasts significant growth in market for robotics and autonomous systems to operate and maintain onshore and offshore renewable energy. The global market for robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) used to operate and maintain onshore and offshore wind farms is expected to be worth £1.3bn by 2030, as demand for renewable energy soars over the coming decade and beyond in order to reach net zero goals, according to the UK's offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.

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The corporate capture of the UN Food Summit

Eco-Business

Transnational agribusiness firms are contributing to a growing global hunger crisis. By also capturing the UN Food Systems Summit, they have restricted the meeting's agenda to solutions that will further inflate corporate profits.

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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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Sustainable consumption: The biggest challenge for advertising's superpower

Business Green

The advertising sector has spent more than a century persuading people to consume more ‘things' - can it now drive a shift towards more sustainable consumption, asks Anna Lungley from Dentsu International? It's easy to write off consumption as something that goes completely against the grain of sustainability. Consumption is, after all, the act of using up our world's resources.

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A climate billionaire contest

Eco-Business

A new generation of tycoons amassing wealth in the clean energy boom as the planet’s climate crisis accelerates. While facilitating a shift towards to more sustainable planet, some rank poorly fro human rights and resource use.

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Ride hailing app Free Now to make electric cars default option in UK

Business Green

Pledge forms part of plan to ensure all cars and taxis on its app are 'zero emission capable' by 2025. Ride hailing service Free Now has started to offer electric cars as the default first option for customers ahead of petrol or diesel vehicles, as it last week pledged to ensure every vehicle on its UK app is "zero emission capable by 2025". Free Now claims it is the first ride hailng app to make EVs the default option for users, and its 'Green Pledge' unveiled on Wednesday will see the firm tar

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Students for sustainability… marine biologist Tiffany Goh

Eco-Business

As human activities increase in the polar region, Goh aims to protect the large marine mammals that play a key role in maintaining the balance of our natural ecosystem.

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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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Ford CEO Calls For Lower EV Prices, Audi Q4 E-Tron Costs Less Than Q5

CleanTechnica

Ford CEO Jim Farley says electric cars need to be less expensive. Audi agrees.

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Connections to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Eco-Business

Six of the top 10 palm oil conglomerates in Indonesia have coal mining businesses, and five of the top 10 coal miners have oil palm businesses, a new report shows.

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Fastned Is Starting To Grow Again After 5 Quarters Of Corona Stagnation

CleanTechnica

The second quarter of 2021 is the first quarter showing real growth after the last quarter of 2019. The five quarters in between were a matter of survival during the corona crises. People started working from home, were furloughed, and made far fewer visits to business events or relatives. And when people do not drive, […].

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Remaining forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows

Eco-Business

Remnant trees can support secondary forests and recover biomass and biodiversity, but only if they’re allowed to grow to maturity.

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Wineries & Breweries in Australia Offering Electrons from Sunshine

CleanTechnica

Now a larger winery is going 100% solar. Treasury wine estates, which produces the premium brands Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Pepperjack and Wynns has pledged to source its electricity needs from 100% solar by 2024. Barossa Valley wineries have already achieved 100% renewable energy by installing a 3MW solar system. A 1.4MW system powers the Barossa Valley operations of the Yalumba Family.

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Howarth/Jacobson “Blue” Hydrogen Assessment Stronger Than Bauer Et Al’s (Part 1 of 2)

CleanTechnica

Comparing Jacobson and Howarth's "blue" hydrogen CO2e emissions paper to Bauer et al's makes it clear that Jacobson and Howarth are much more correct.

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Can Tesla Increase Sales In Japan?

CleanTechnica

The width of the Model 3 (without mirrors) is 1,849 mm and most parking lots in Japan are 1,850 mm wide. This leaves only 1 mm of margin and some extraordinary parking skills to park the car at a shopping mall, public place, restaurant, and most homes in Japan.

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Global Warming Is Rapidly Changing Our World — Part 1

CleanTechnica

When astronauts first went to space, it struck them that the atmosphere was this very thin crescent on the horizon (limb) of the Earth. This atmosphere is what we breath, what helps protect us from cosmic rays, and what keeps us from losing our oceans. When the first astronauts went to the moon, they were […].

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European Charging Market to Replace Petrol Station Market in Next Decade

CleanTechnica

The charging markets in Europe and the USA have many similarities, but also many differences. And the European transition to electric driving is a few years ahead of the USA. That is why this article is partly a copy of the previous article I wrote about the charging market in the USA. It is unbelievable […].

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Elon Musk Speaks At 2021 World Internet Conference In Wuzhen, China

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk was invited to speak at the 2021 World Internet Conference in Wuhzen, China. Elon was invited to share his thoughts on intelligent and connected vehicles. He spoke about autonomous driving using Tesla’s neural vision network, data safety, Tesla China’s data center, and Tesla’s investment in China. Note that Elon wasn’t able to join […].

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Geely Geometry EX3 Electric SUV Priced Below $10,000

CleanTechnica

The Geometry EX3 electric SUV from Geely comes with a super low price tag.

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One Way Toyota Could Survive The Electric Vehicle Disruption

CleanTechnica

Here at CleanTechnica, we haven’t been big fans of Toyota. Most recently, Steve Handley wrote a fine article about Toyota’s CEO (and the grandson of its founder) is saying that thousands of jobs will be lost if we move to electric vehicles (EVs). What Toyota’s CEO seems to miss is that more jobs will be […].

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What You Won’t Hear Or See In The News On The Automotive Chip Shortage

CleanTechnica

The automotive industry needs to design new circuit boards for newer chips and replace the antiques. They are resisting the investment, and they are lacking the “in-house” know-how.

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Laser Treatment Shows Potential for Reducing Industrial Chemical Processing for Vehicles

CleanTechnica

Industrial Chemicals used on vehicles While highly regulated, both processes use large quantities of hazardous compounds with known environmental and health risks.

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Drive Electric Week Down Under

CleanTechnica

What a fantastic day of inquisitive participants! The hard work of Jon Day and the Australian Electric Vehicles Association certainly paid off with the largest gathering of electric vehicles and allied industries in Australia to date. I must point out that this was privately organized by and for community groups. Not a politician in sight. […].