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What I learned about water in 2020

GreenBiz

What I learned about water in 2020. Will Sarni. Wed, 12/30/2020 - 01:30. Last year around this time, I focused on digital technology solutions for water with this essay, " 2019: The Year Analog Solutions Died." I stand by this perspective, as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated interest and adoption of digital technologies across the water value chain.

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Save energy and money with these eco-friendly tips for winter

Inhabitat - Innovation

Whether winter conjures thoughts of cozy fires and hot cocoa or trudging through snow and ice on the way to work, it's essential to have a plan for coping with the season in a sustainable way both in the home and while you’re away.

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New heating concept increases EV range and enhances passenger comfort

Charged

Heating an EV passenger compartment requires additional energy, which sometimes reduces the vehicle’s range. Engineering specialist IAV teamed up with Louisenthal, a manufacturer of banknote substrates, security papers and security foils, to develop an energy-efficient heating concept that requires considerably less energy while increasing comfort for drivers and passengers.

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This modular prefab office space offers sustainable solutions

Inhabitat - Innovation

London studio Boano Prišmontas is no stranger to projects that highlight sustainable workspaces. Once the pandemic hit, the need for affordable, easy-to-assemble remote work solutions became even more urgent. Enter "My Room in The Garden," a low-cost prefab home office that can fit a yard of any size and takes less than a day to install.

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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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9 New Years’ Climate Resolutions To Keep For 2021, According To Experts

Forbes Green Tech

Climate researchers in London have come up with a nine-point list of green New Year’s resolutions that, if adopted widely, could turn individual carbon-cutting habits into collective action. See how many you'll be able to follow.

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Bright and airy Sycamore tiny house hits the market for $90k

Inhabitat - Innovation

This chic tiny home has all the bells and whistles, including a full-size stove in the kitchen and two lofts.

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Australian government stumbles in climate crisis response

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Australian government appears conflicted in its efforts to adopt environmentally progressive policies following the country's recent bushfires and record temperatures.

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2020: While Humans Rushed To Get Back To Normal, Nature Showed That Normal Isn’t Working

Forbes Green Tech

In the first half of 2020, the coronavirus lockdown demonstrated that human societies can take drastic action, collectively and globally, to respond to natural threats. In the second half, the recovery demonstrated that human societies probably won’t.

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What Renewable Energy Is Most Cost-Effective by Region?

Green Living Guy

What’s one significant contributor to climate change? They’re called fossil fuels. These are power sources like crude oil and natural gas that we use to sustain ourselves. Fortunately, we can turn to renewable energy alternatives that work similarly — and are better for the planet. Take a look to see. The post What Renewable Energy Is Most Cost-Effective by Region?

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Climate Change and the Record Breaking 2020 Atlantic Storm Season

Green Market Oracle

This year's Atlantic hurricane season was the worst on record and it marks the fifth straight year with above-average storm activity. Each year there are an average of around 12 storms in the Atlantic, in 2020 there was a record breaking 31. This includes 13 hurricanes (twice the normal number) with six of them rated as Category 3 or higher (also twice the normal average).

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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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Ethical Eating – A Concise Guide

Green Living Guy

Eating three meals a day plus snacks has a considerable impact on the environment, our health, soil, plants and animals, agricultural and food service workers. To look after our planet, more people are paying attention to food production. For instance, understanding the process and the negative affects of plants and. The post Ethical Eating – A Concise Guide appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Climate Change and the Record Breaking Atlantic Storm Season in 2020

Green Market Oracle

This year's Atlantic hurricane season was the worst on record and it marks the fifth straight year with above-average storm activity. Each year there are an average of around 12 storms in the Atlantic, in 2020 there was a record breaking 30. This includes 13 hurricanes (twice the normal number) with six of them rated as Category 3 or higher (also twice the normal average).

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Why Boston?

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This modular prefab office space offers sustainable solutions

AGreenLiving

London studio Boano Prišmontas is no stranger to projects that highlight sustainable workspaces. Once the pandemic hit, the need for affordable, easy-to-assemble remote work solutions became even more urgent. Enter “My Room in The Garden,” a low-cost prefab home office that can fit a yard of any size and takes less than a day to install.

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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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Sicilian history and the Greeks

Martin LaMonica

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What I learned about water in 2020

AGreenLiving

What I learned about water in 2020 Will Sarni Wed, 12/30/2020 – 01:30 Last year around this time, I focused on digital technology solutions for water with this essay, ” 2019: The Year Analog Solutions Died.” I stand by this perspective, as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated interest and adoption of digital technologies across the water value chain.

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The West End

Martin LaMonica

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Maven Moment: A New Slow Cooker

AGreenLiving

The New Year is a good time to try something … The post Maven Moment: A New Slow Cooker appeared first on Earth 911. Read more: Maven Moment: A New Slow Cooker.

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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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Italian Jewish names

Martin LaMonica

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Bright and airy Sycamore tiny house hits the market for $90k

AGreenLiving

Wichita-based tiny house builder Made Relative recently unveiled its fourth custom home — Sycamore, a 320-square-foot dwelling that’s now available for $90,000. Crafted by cousins Reid and Kale, the new tiny home features natural timbers throughout the design in addition to an abundance of natural light and an open layout. The home also comes partially furnished with custom built-ins, select lighting and custom furniture pieces.

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World War I and Libya

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EV manufacturer Arrival establishes North American HQ in Charlotte NC

Charged

British EV-maker Arrival plans to establish its North American headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company will add 150 new employees and invest $3 million in its new office complex in the trendy South End neighborhood. Arrival was founded in 2015, and has over 1,300 employees at sites in the UK, US, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Russia and Luxembourg.

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TED Talk: Climate Change is Becoming a Problem You Can Taste

Sustainability Consulting

Everyone loves a TED Talk, here’s one of our favorites: Food security may be the biggest, most tangible effect of climate change says Amanda Little, Author of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, and Smarter World in her TED Talk. People got a taste of this growing problem during the height of the global pandemic when supply chains broke down.

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Australian government stumbles in climate crisis response

AGreenLiving

The Australian government appears conflicted in its efforts to adopt environmentally progressive policies following the country’s recent bushfires and record temperatures. A recent Australian Institute survey shows that private sector leaders and the general public favor a comprehensive climate policy with renewable energy investments. However, Prime minister Scott Morrison and his administration remain tied to the fossil fuel industry, making it hard for the country to progress.

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Photos of the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley in 2020

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins The disproportionate toll that COVID -19 is taking on the Black community brought environmental justice issues to the forefront during 2020. Calls for dealing with climate change and environmental justice were elevated by president-elect Biden, who spoke about endangered communities in the last presidential debate and on his campaign website, calling for environmental justice and “rooting out the systemic racism in our laws, policies, institutions, and hearts.”.

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Save energy and money with these eco-friendly tips for winter

AGreenLiving

Whether winter conjures thoughts of cozy fires and hot cocoa or trudging through snow and ice on the way to work, it’s essential to have a plan for coping with the season in a sustainable way. Here are some tips to saving energy, water and money while staying toasty and warm all winter long. Heat and electricity bills Not only will the bills add up as you bump up the heat, but so does energy consumption.

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What Marketers Can Learn From How SmartPower Has Leveraged Consumer Insight For Growth In The Sustainable Energy Market.

Forbes Green Tech

Sustainability is, thankfully, big news at the moment, with President-elect Joe Biden proposing to make U.S. electricity production carbon-free by 2035 and to have the country achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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Looking Ahead to 2021: COP26, Clean Air, and Biden's Next Steps

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins A calamitous year of lockdowns, tiers, and certainly tears, have left us reaching for 2021 like sun-starved plants in a darkened room. The last 12 months have also been a stark reminder of how far we are still from intersectional justice: environmental, racial, political. After the year that’s been, it’d be a fool’s errand to guess what 2021 holds in store.

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Trump administration disregards border wall's environmental impact

Inhabitat - Innovation

An environmental row rages on as the Trump administration races against time to complete its target 450 miles of the border wall along the American-Mexico border.

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The Highs and Lows for Solar in 2020

GreenTechMedia

By nearly all measures, 2020 was a trying year. And though the solar industry will end the year with more stability than most sectors of the economy — Wood Mackenzie projects 43 percent growth this year — the year still sowed uncertainty and confusion within the industry. Here are the top solar stories of 2020. The highs. An ITC extension.

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Trump administration disregards border wall’s environmental impact

AGreenLiving

An environmental row rages on as the Trump administration races against time to complete its target 450 miles of the border wall along the American-Mexico border. At the beginning of 2020, the Trump administration vowed to meet this goal within the year. In a last-ditch effort to deliver the promise, workers across 37 different construction sites along the border rush to meet the deadline.

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Greentech Media’s Must-Read Grid Edge Stories of 2020

GreenTechMedia

The human suffering and economic turmoil of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the impacts of climate change-driven heatwaves and wildfires, have given humanity little reason to celebrate the year that’s coming to a close. But when it comes to the grid edge — the combination of technologies, policies and economic drivers encouraging the integration of clean energy, demand-side resources and utility grid infrastructure — the past year has seen some significant advances, even i

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Is It Time To Change The FAANG Stock List To FATANG To Include Tesla?

CleanTechnica

First, What is FAANG? Let's start by explaining the FAANG list of stocks. These are all household name tech stocks.