Water bites back in 2022
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Systemic failures in the water sector led to big challenges to economic development, business growth, ecosystems and civil society during 2022.
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The best and worst US states for climate change
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 27, 2022
A recent study by Wise Voter set out to compare how each U.S. state is coping with the growing climate crisis. Each state was ranked based on five environmental factors. These were Carbon Emissions, the Adoption of Green Technology, Landfill Usage, Recycling and Green Policies. Overall, the top five best states concerning climate resilience are California, Maine, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts.
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Lithos Carbon rocks agricultural carbon capture
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Meet the entrepreneur helping farmers capture carbon and increase crop yields — with rocks.
Tesla semi truck is finally here: does it make the grade?
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Tesla has promised a semi truck to electrify shipping for years, and it's finally here. Can it haul as promised? Tesla has been planning on a semi truck to disrupt shipping since 2017. Here is the first EV heavy duty truck from the automaker, and how it really performs.
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.
What Makes a Successful Company Internship Program?
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 27, 2022
In this article, you’ll learn the benefits and challenges of running a company internship program, intern project ideas that will bring long-lasting benefits to your company, and strategies for facilitating intern engagement and ensuring quality work. Company Internship Program Benefits. Internships provide a great opportunity for rising talent to gain real-world experience and learn new skills.
Kapok fibers now used in biodegradable, all-natural clothing
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Kapok is a fiber you may have never heard of, yet it’s commonly used in many products. And now, at least one company has figured out how to turn it into clothing.
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These home accessories are inspired by AlUla landscapes
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Studio Niko Kapa based in Dubai recently unveiled a collection of homeware, office and decorative products. These draw inspiration from the natural landscapes of AlUla in Saudi Arabia.
2022 paves way for massive growth for solar + storage industry
Solar Power World
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Robust federal clean energy policy has laid the groundwork for a decade of explosive growth for the solar and storage industries. A 10-year extension of the investment tax credit, new incentives for domestic solar product manufacturing and many other provisions will help solar and storage meet the increasing demand for home-grown, clean energy. The industry… The post 2022 paves way for massive growth for solar + storage industry appeared first on Solar Power World.
Timber children's library follows traditional techniques
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 27, 2022
The Pingtan Book House is a traditional timber construction house in China built with an internal staircase and bookshelves that wind around to infinite possibilities for reading and play.
Airbus and Renault team up to advance research on electrification
Charged
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Airbus and Renault Group have signed an R&D agreement under which their engineering teams will join forces to improve energy storage-related technologies. More specifically, the cooperation agreement will focus on technologies related to energy management optimization and battery weight improvement, including solid-state battery designs, which some say could double the energy density of batteries in the 2030 timeframe.
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.
More Energy Output Than Input Marks a Leap Forward for Fusion Energy Research
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Fusion ignition achieved by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a triumph of science and engineering. It represents the first step to producing unlimited nuclear energy here on Earth with no radioactive waste. What will it take to turn the results of this experiment into a viable commercial fusion reactor? Both scale and speed. The positive energy yield needs to be 50 to 100 times.
ADS-TEC unveils its new ChargePost battery-based charging system
Charged
DECEMBER 27, 2022
ADS-TEC Energy , a manufacturer of battery-buffered energy systems, has unveiled a new battery-based charging system. The new ChargePost is equipped with two DC fast charging points and two optional 75-inch monitors that can be used for advertising space. It’s aimed at gas stations, car dealerships, fleet operators, offices and commercial buildings.
Italgas advances sustainability plan
Smart Energy International
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Planet, people and partnerships are the three pillars on which Italgas’s ‘Sustainable Value Creation Plan’ for 2022-2028 is structured. The plan, which builds out the Italian gas operator’s recent strategic plan setting out about €8.6 billion (US$9.2 billion) in investments over the period, positions sustainability as not only an integral part of strategic development but also a foundational element and pivot of actions towards achieving the REPowerEu targets.
New Clean Energy Consortium Deploys Groundbreaking Supercapacitor Modules and First Platform to Expand Green Technologies
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DECEMBER 27, 2022
American Clean Energy Group steps in to aid Northern California's post-earthquake power needs
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.
Digital twin of European electricity grid to be developed
Smart Energy International
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Europe’s transmission and distribution system operators through their associations ENTSO-E and EU DSO Entity are to develop a digital twin of the region’s electricity grid. In a declaration of intent the two industry organisations have committed to the joint development of the digital twin as part of the ongoing digitalisation of the energy sector. The proposal for a digital twin of Europe’s electricity grid was one of those in the European Commission’s action plan for digitalising the energy se
A Framework for Evaluating Cleantech Innovation Ecosystems
CleanTech Group
DECEMBER 27, 2022
The Global Cleantech 100 is coming in January, and we’ve spent the last few months evaluating some of the world’s most exciting cleantech.
2022 in Photos: Gaslighting by the Fossil Fuel Industry and Its Supporters
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. In recent years, the industry shifted from persistent science denial to presenting itself as a leader of climate solutions, embodying Merriam-Webster’s word of the year “gaslighting.”.
Fireproofing of Industrial Buildings
U.S. Green Technology
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Industrial Fireproofing is the distinction between property supporting harms or a total breakdown in case of a fire. This sort of aloof fire insurance is the most common way of delivering something heat proof or incombustible. In the event of a fire episode, industrial fireproofing permits impacted designs to stay standing. Simultaneously, the basic control.
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?
Fusion Power Breakthrough…Really?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have announced a fusion breakthrough using lasers. The future of clean, limitless energy according to Forbes! A game-changer for climate according to PBS! Using a laser and power plant system about the size of a sports stadium, the experiment generated a net power output of about one megajoule. This fusion power plant can blast the laser.
National Grid unveils plans for grid greenhouse gas crackdown
Business Green
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Grid operator reveals how £1bn project to rewire London is harnessing pioneering technology to cut emissions of sulphur hexafluoride. National Grid last week provided an update on its £1bn project to upgrade high voltage electricity cables across London to meet growing demand for power from the capital's expanding fleet of electric vehicles and heat pumps, revealing how it is taking the opportunity to crackdown on powerful greenhouse gases that result from legacy grid infrastructure.
The Air We Breathe, Part 2
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
The impacts of climate change are no longer a distant threat on the horizon—they are right here, right now, with a growing intensity that is adversely affecting our communities and our environment, here in California and across the globe. The science that, decades ago, predicted the impacts we are currently experiencing is even stronger today and unambiguously tells us what we must do to.
Can Europe's new Social Climate Fund protect poor from rising carbon cost?
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 27, 2022
A new EU fund to shield consumers from energy price spikes driven by climate change policies may not be enough to protect the poorest households, experts warn.
Are We About To Be Assailed By Private Companies and Governments Implementing Geoengineering Experiments?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Geoengineering involves manipulating the natural environment of Earth to address global warming. It includes technologies like carbon capture and sequestration, and direct air carbon capture, technologies currently being implemented in numerous projects assisted by government legislation such as the American Inflation Reduction Act. But it also covers actions such as seeding the upper.
Lahore’s new city plan beset by legal challenges and flood worries
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Two years after its inauguration, local farmers and activists dispute the legality of land acquisition for Pakistan’s new city megaproject along the Ravi River.
U.S. Department of Energy Top Accomplishments in 2022
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
It's been a great year of hard work and clean energy progress at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE Loan Programs Office! From DOE's "Top Accomplishments in 2022": "Loans Out the Door: In 2022, our Loan Programs Office (LPO) made its first loans in over three years. In June, LPO announced a $504 million loan guarantee to the Advanced.
Dry season threatens peatlands restored by Sumatra villagers
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Community-led efforts to restore degraded peatlands in Indonesia’s Riau province could be put to the test in early 2023 as the dry season sets in.
An Interview with Jules Besnainou - Cleantech for Europe
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
What’s it all about? What a year it has been for Cleantech in Europe, whilst investment wasn’t quite at the record level of 2021, it came in second, we saw tremendous policy and government acceptance of Cleantech as a strategically important sector for Europe and the EU. Jules Besnainou and his team at Cleantech for Europe have made a huge impact on both fronts.
Fossil fuels, fairness, finance: Climate fights to watch in 2023
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 27, 2022
We asked experts which issues they think will—or should—turn up the heat in the climate conversation.
RES4Africa and Enel Foundation: a long-lasting commitment to supercharge Africa’s clean energy transition
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy is a prerequisite for Africa to realize its ambitions for human and economic prosperity. Pursuing the same common goal of ensuring universal access to energy in all African countries, during 2022, Enel Foundation and RES4Africa have been collaborating on several different projects, covering awareness raising, training and.
Custom Acrylic Keychains
U.S. Green Technology
DECEMBER 27, 2022
These keychains are adjustable and make an incredible gift for any event. With various varieties, plans, and textual styles, an ideal acrylic keychain will clearly be there. Whether you are searching for a basic monochrome keychain or something with additional intricate points of interest, custom keychains are the ideal choice. All of our acrylic keychains.
Argus Global Base Oils Conference, 20-22 February 2023, Central London, UK, Conference and Exhibition
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Coming to London, UK, the Argus Global Base Oils Conference will explore the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the global base oils and lubricants markets. Do not miss this opportunity to get the market intelligence and insight you need to best shape and future-proof your business strategies. The 2023 event will consist of a 3-day conference and will feature a keynote address.
What does the world need to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth?
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 27, 2022
While some believe that economic growth is incompatible with fighting climate change, only growing economies can produce the financial resources needed to make the transition to a net-zero economy. Accelerating global growth could bring lower-income households into the middle class and build infrastructure to reduce emissions.
The value of simplicity
Energy Central
DECEMBER 27, 2022
The value of simplicity I learned in real life, providing energy consultancy to companies and institutions that achieving and maintaining important results involves simplicity. 1. Facilitates understanding Managers, directors, board members, advisors and guys at the operations floor, aligning perceptions and expectations tend to act in a more synchronized way because they.
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