Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Stunning satellite images depict the recent gigantic infernos that devastated one of the coldest areas on the planet. Last month fires burning across Siberia – known for its cold and harsh winters – were said to be bigger than all the fires burning across the globe combined. The images were released by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) to mark Earth Observation Week (6-10 September).

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The global market for alternative proteins is growing fast and mycoprotein from fermented mushrooms can create meat-free alternatives.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Nestled in the forests of Australia's Blue Mountains, Anderson Architecture's Off Grid House is an experimental dwelling that pushes the limits of sustainable living in remote regions.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

"If it's extractive in nature, you are absolutely unwelcome.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Shanah Tovah! Start the Jewish New Year off right with this collection of vegan Rosh Hashanah recipes. From vegan challah and seitan brisket to tzimmes and apples with agave, Inhabitat has your recipe needs covered.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

DEADLINE 20 SEPTEMBER — please help distribute this! We have five PhD and postdoc positions to fill in the ecological and social sciences. The five job ads can be found on our university homepage. I copy and paste key details of the advertisements here. Details on the project can be found here.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, contributes a bi-weekly column on the policies, practices and strategies of. The post Pension funds are enjoying spectacular returns, sometimes at the expense of their beneficiaries appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Fairsnape

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Sharing this FutuREstorative review from the Urban Design Group. This book aims to provoke a new way of thinking among those involved in design and development. FutuREstorative is about our relationship with nature and how this translates into our understanding and ‘sustainable design’. Brown has brought together thinkers and practitioners linked to the Living Building Challenge, and they advocate not just sustainable development or limiting our environmental impact, but a restorative approach,

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

While the adoption of electromobility is rapidly increasing in our day-to-day life, the development of batteries and their Battery Management Systems (BMS) continues to be further optimized for safety, cost, manufacturing and other key parameters. NXP Semiconductors closely monitors the global xEV BMS trends and contributes to their evolution by tailoring devices for the upcoming changes in BMS architecture.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Photos I shot on a flight on September 4, 2021 illustrate what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meant last month when he described the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report as a “code red” for human-driven global heating. On a flight provided by Southwings , a non-profit that connects volunteer pilots with media, educational institutions and conservation groups, I flew over many of the hardest hit areas in southern Louisiana, including Lafitte, Gra

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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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Charged

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

India’s Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has tested four Tesla models and certified them to be roadworthy. “The tests ensure the vehicle matches the requirements of the Indian market in terms of emission and safety and road worthiness,” states the ministry. The models tested appear to be variants of Models 3 and Y. Tesla has been slowly but surely moving closer to entering the Indian auto market—the world’s fifth-largest.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Globally, food insecurity and biodiversity conservation are major challenges. These issues are highly interlinked, as agriculture is a prerequisite for food security, but also drives biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

New Stourton site is the city’s third park and ride service, but is unique for being entirely powered by solar energy and utilising only electric buses. The first solar powered Park and Ride centre opens this week in Stourton, south Leeds, in a move that should reduce commuting times and costs while curbing congestion and pollution in the city centre.

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Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I remember reading an article entitled “We Won’t Achieve Sustainability without Mindfulness.” Over the next few weeks, many more appeared as green think pieces. Now, it’s years since I’ve heard anything about mindfulness, but the Sustainability world moves on, so I guess they were wrong. I thought of this while reading the report of the North of Tyne Combined Authority Citizen’s Assembly (CA).

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

August sales of electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid vehicles four times higher than sales of diesel models. The UK's booming electric vehicle (EV) market chalked off another milestone last month, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), which confirm plug-in and hybrid models secured a market share of over 30 per cent during August.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Banking giant NatWest plans to install 600 public chargers across its office locations in the UK. EQUANS, a new autonomous business within the multinational electric utility ENGIE, will supply, commission and operate the Alfen Pro-Line 7.4 kW dual chargers, which will be part of EQUANS’s national GeniePoint network. The chargers will be available to staff, visitors, and customers at NatWest offices, and will also support the company’s transition to 300 fleet EVs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Green Heat Network Fund will replace the Heat Networks Investment Project from 2022 and aims to fund 10.3 megatons of carbon emission savings by 2050. The government will today announce the introduction of a new £270m Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to finance low-carbon technologies that heat buildings via a central network, following the end of the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP), which has been active since 2018.

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Mosaic

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Billy Parish, founder and CEO of Mosaic, and others discuss how investment firms are buying record amounts of solar bonds. With sales hitting ~$2 billion in the first six months of the year (nearly double the same period in 2020 and 2019), the companies are connecting fund managers looking for eco-friendly investments with homeowners who want to get cheaper—and potentially more reliable—electricity while cutting their carbon footprints.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The next generation of supercomputers promise to help address remaining uncertainties in reliable weather and climate predictions, explains TechUK's Susanne Baker. Weather prediction has been a pioneering application of numerical computer simulations since John von Neuman's ‘Meteorology Program' at Princeton in the late 1940s. Together with his assistant, Jule Gregory Charney, he wrote the world's first climate modelling software and used it to perform the world's first numerical weather f

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As part of interior design , lighting serves a greater purpose than illumination alone. Fixtures set the tone of a room and work as a central element in the theme. Graypants Studio, with offices in Seattle and Amsterdam, takes the look of its lighting products seriously while placing a focus on producing them sustainably. The studio’s newest release, Dash Linear, is a high-performance lighting option for newly-created home-work spaces, home additions or upgraded kitchens.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

New design reduces carbon footprint of classic Dr.BEST toothbrush by 50 per cent, with remaining emissions are set to be offset through a community project in Madagascar. Consumer pharmaceuticals giant GSK Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH) has today announced the launch of its first carbon neutral footprint in the latest boost to the company's plans to get to net zero emissions by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Nestled in the forests of Australia’s Blue Mountains, Anderson Architecture’s Off Grid House is an experimental dwelling that pushes the limits of sustainable living in remote regions. The house is split into two cabins with steep skillion roofs, slanting in opposite directions to feed 30,000-liter water tanks. The first volume houses the sleeping quarters and is oriented towards the sun to maximize comfort at night through passive solar performance during the day.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Debate over how to fund raft of net zero programmes looks set to dominate the coming months. The government is reportedly poised to issue its first green sovereign bond in the next few weeks, as it looks to kick off an autumn that will be dominated by a wave of crucial green spending and policy announcements in the run up to the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The global market for alternative proteins is growing fast and mycoprotein from fermented mushrooms can create meat-free alternatives. Go here to see the original: How mushrooms are capping the alternative proteins market.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Gordon Ramsey look-alike Martin Jordan will be the face of the new Vegan Bac'n Bap. A new Vegan Bac'n Bap will be available in Costa Coffee branches across the country from today, the coffee shop giant has announced, in the latest boost to the fast-expanding alternative meat market. The bap consists of plant-based brand Naked without the oink bacon, made from a wheat and pea protein alternative, in a white bap with either Heinz ketchup or HP sauce.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Shanah Tovah! Start the Jewish New Year off right with this collection of vegan Rosh Hashanah recipes. From vegan challah and seitan brisket to tzimmes and apples with agave, Inhabitat has your recipe needs covered. There are many symbolic foods, or Simanim , used to help celebrate Rosh Hashanah. On the first night, many people eat apples dipped in honey, a tradition that represents “wishes for a sweet year,” according to rabbi and author Shimon Apisdorf.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

British Energy Efficiency Federation chair Andrew Warren sets out his vision for building a thriving market for domestic green homes upgrades. It is universally acknowledged that Britain needs urgently to improve the energy efficiency of its housing stock, long deemed amongst the worst in western Europe. This needs to be done for ecological reasons.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Author, Business for Good Podcast host, and The Better Meat Co. CEO Paul Shapiro joins… The post Earth911 Podcast: Making Meat Sustainable & Humane With Paul Shapiro appeared first on Earth911. Original post: Earth911 Podcast: Making Meat Sustainable & Humane With Paul Shapiro.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Think tank ODI calculates the UK is providing less than half of its fair share towards the collective $100bn a year target that is likely to prove a major flashpoint at the upcoming COP26 Climate Summit. The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In a 2021 General Motors Superbowl ad with Will Ferrell, the comedian punches his fist… The post Norway Tops in EV Adoption: What Can US Learn From Them? appeared first on Earth911. See original here: Norway Tops in EV Adoption: What Can US Learn From Them?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) are hitting the roads in ever greater numbers. Global EV sales were up by 168 per cent in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020, and are expected to cost the same as - or even less than - combustion (petrol and diesel) cars by 2028 at the latest. Accompanied by proposed government bans on the sale of combustion vehicles in many countries, EVs will be increasingly commonplace over the next decade.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Are you a globe trotter, but you want to have a small footprint? You aren’t… The post Green Hotels: How Do I Identify Sustainable Travel Lodging? appeared first on Earth911. View original here: Green Hotels: How Do I Identify Sustainable Travel Lodging?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hosted in association with the Energy Networks Association, this week's free to attend webinar will provide an invaluable overview of how flexible grid technologies are driving the development of a low carbon energy systems. BusinessGreen will this week host a major new webinar exploring the role of fast-emerging flexible grid technologies and services in helping businesses curb their carbon footprint, drive the net zero transition, and enable the development of a zero emission energy system.

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