Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Research considers health impact in England’s eighth biggest city, Bristol. Five people dying prematurely every week – 260 for the year as a result of two most harmful forms of air pollution, PM2.5 and NO2. The economic health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol estimated to be up to £170 million a year. A new report released on 18 November from UK100, a network of local authorities, and King’s College London, has shown the stark impacts of air pollution on life expectancy in one of E

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have patented a new synthetic material that the carmaker hopes will serve as the technological base for a new generation of supercapacitors. The two organizations began working together in 2017 , when they produced the Terzo Millennio concept car. With support from Lamborghini’s Concept Development Department, a research team led by MIT Chemistry Professor Mircea Dinc?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 12 mins Ten years ago, leading climate scientists at the University of East Anglia had a mass of email correspondence stolen from their computers and broadcast around the world, in what became known as ‘Climategate’. Climate science deniers pounced on the leaked emails as supposed proof that scientists were manipulating data and creating panic about climate change out of nothing.

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

An electric Hummer would be a bold move by General Motors, offering a brand that millions of Americans already know.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 4 mins DeSmog was launched in January 2006 to call out the public relations industry for working with fossil fuel industry clients to sow doubt and seed misinformation about climate science. In those early years, we focused most of our attention on the merchants of doubt who were scuttling political action to address global warming in the United States. .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

UK is the 'go-to destination' around the world for expertise on designing, building, and further developing wind, wave, and tidal energy projects, RenewableUK claims.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

IEMA welcomes ISO 14007 as means of helping create transparent and accurate data to help firms 'understand value of sustainability'.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 2 mins On November 19, 2009, an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. It was meant to be the hack that brought down climate science. But it made the research — and researchers — stronger than ever.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Non-profit warns not enough concrete action being taken by consumer goods giants to tackle deforestation and commodity risk across their supply chains.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 4 mins “ There was this incredible hullabaloo,” says Robert Brulle, recalling the moment that the Climategate scandal broke, 10 years ago today. He remembers thinking that it was all much ado about nothing: a coordinated PR campaign by climate deniers to discredit the science of global warming. . Brulle is a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, who has researched the environmentalism movement for more than two decades, and has focused

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Cable deal signals next step in using offshore wind to power oil and gas platforms.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Ener-Rev will take place on April 21, 2020 at the Intercontinental Marceau Hotel, Paris. France is the second largest European economy and home of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and is now a key European player in the renewable energy space. With a mature onshore wind sector, a fast-evolving solar market and a high potential in biomass and offshore wind, the French renewable energy market presents a unique business opportunity for international companies and investors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Fashion businesses need to better communicate their environmental credentials to win over shoppers and prepare for increased scrutiny, argues Kantar's Glen Tooke.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

On one day in April 2020, residents, NGOs and company employees will be tasked to clean up the city-state for a day, to show how much trash is generated by the convenience-minded country.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Acting on climate change won't cost us the earth, but inaction will, argues IPPR's Josh Emden.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

More than 100 million people live without access to safe water in Southeast Asia. What can be done to improve that and to protect clean water sources?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Trade body research suggests industry likely to fall short on government's ambition for 85 per cent of homes and businesses to have a smart meter installed by 2024.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The only realistic solution to the climate crisis is to replace fossil-fuel-based energy with renewables quickly and cost-effectively enough to keep the engines of economic growth running. A global carbon market would do just that.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 7 mins Excessive media coverage of an email hacking tilted the outcome of a critically important event against the victims of the crime. Sound familiar? In 2016, it happened to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. That was déjà vu for climate scientists, who seven years earlier had experienced a nearly identical chain of events leading up to the 2009 UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. .

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Proposed amendments to a century-old Indian Forest Act aimed to give officials the power to arrest and shoot at encroachers and earmark more land for reforestation.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Following the disappointing decision by Toyota, GM and Fiat Chrysler to side with the Trump administration’s campaign to strip California of its authority to set stringent fuel economy standards, some pundits and influencers began calling for a boycott. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich tweeted, “Toyota, goodbye. The environmental goodwill you’ve built by pioneering hybrid cars has vanished in your choice of Trump over California.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

VegasModel3 posted a video that answers the most asked EV question I've encountered. Although, the answer to this question is particular to the Tesla Model 3. It won't answer the question for all EVs. That question is typically the beginning question before someone delves further into the world of electric cars.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

For this article I wanted to take a look at the pickup truck market to prepare for the upcoming announcement of Tesla's pickup. As long as I was looking at the pickup market, I thought I might as well share my research with my readers.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

When people ask me how it is possible that most of my predictions about Tesla are correct, my answer is, "Those are not my predictions. You just have to listen carefully to Elon Musk, and do it twice, better trice." Elon tells the truth, unless he is joking, and he likes joking but not if it's about his mission to change the world to sustainable transportation.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Lots of ink has already been spilled over the new Ford Mustang Mach-E. With press leaks, bloggers breaking embargo, and even Ford accidentally publishing information about the vehicle, most of this information is already out there on the internet, and some of it is even in prior articles on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Tracking the Sun (PDF) is an annual report from Berkeley Lab on installed solar panel prices and other trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. Primary authors of this year's report were Galen Barbose and Naïm Darghouth.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The other day I noticed my torque was at prime force due to the battery being fully charged — on my 2015 BMW i3. Imagine how this higher state of charge (SoC) increases the feeling of Ludicrous Mode as it jets a Tesla Model S P100D forward like a rocket.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

How does one renew an area devastated by nuclear waste? I think of brilliant Kirusowa's film Dreams. One of the dreams depicts the horror and abyss after the fallout of a nuclear accident. Indeed, in real life, there are farmlands in Japan that are ruined, land that cannot be cultivated anymore. The Nikkei Asian Review reports mountainous areas where population outflows continue.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

I love the smile on this man's face. He is simply delighted due to his Model 3's consummate acceleration/performance. Nick Phan smiled as he noticed a Toyota Camry challenge his Model 3 while moving stoplight to stoplight.

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