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Embracing a wetter future, the Dutch turn to floating homes

GreenBiz

These communities are inspiring more ambitious projects in flood-prone nations as far-flung as French Polynesia and the Maldives.

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5 Online Tools That Can Help You Lead A More Sustainable Life

The Environmental Blog

With problems like global warming and pollution becoming a bigger threat with every passing day, sustainability is the need of the hour. Living in the digital age, it can be quite the task to take some time out from a packed schedule and go out of your way to ensure that your lifestyle is a sustainable one. However, the concept of sustainability needs to creep into our daily lives as well if we really want to stick to habits that will improve the state of the planet.

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Closing the loop in Kenya's fashion industry

GreenBiz

In Kenya, garment manufacturers generate an estimated 400,000 tons of cotton waste per year.

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Pristine groundwater seeps support native algae on Hawai‘i’s coasts

Envirotec Magazine

Native marine macroalgae, also known as limu, or as seaweed, thrive in environments created by natural groundwater seeps, specifically benefiting from the combined effects of enhanced nutrients despite lowered salinity levels, according to a review published recently by a team of University of Hawai‘i at M?noa researchers. Conversely, in areas where the seeping groundwater is tainted by excess nitrogen typical of wastewater, the study found it is invasive species that typically flourish in Hawai

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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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What is wishcycling? Two waste experts explain

GreenBiz

The gist: Just because you wish to recycle something doesn't mean that you can.

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Urban Forest is set to be the greenest residential building

Inhabitat - Innovation

Urban Forest designed by Koichi Takada Architects and developed by Aria Property Group received approval to be built in South Brisbane, Australia. The 20-storey building will house 194 apartments, all trimmed out with luscious vertical garden balconies.

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Episode 300: Larry Fink's CEO missive; no small potatoes

GreenBiz

Plus, five trends to watch in climate-aligned finance.

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Floating house concept earns students place in global disaster preparedness competition

Envirotec Magazine

A team of students from Coventry University have developed a concept for a house that can float whenever a flood approaches and shelter people for at least six weeks during catastrophic weather. ‘The Floating House’, can also be used as storage for food, water, medicines, and sanitation products and is designed to enhance disaster resilience within a local community at family level.

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19th century Harlem house restored to be energy efficient

Inhabitat - Innovation

A 19th-century house, owners interested in passive house design and an architectural firm came together with a resulting blend of original elements married to modern innovations in a big-city row house.

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The Maintenance Needs Of Biodiesel

The Environmental Blog

Have you ever heard the term “biodiesel?” A renewable, biodegradable alternative fuel, biodiesel, unlike the regular one, is made from a combination of modified vegetable oils and diesel fuel. Though it had a slow start, Edmunds found that its production has risen from 25 million gallons in 2005 to 1.7 billion gallons in 2013. Biodiesel is rarely used in its pure form.

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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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Coral in the Mediterranean threatened by heatwaves

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new study has found that heatwaves associated with climate change are threatening coral populations in the Mediterranean. The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society Biology, established that corals could be wiped out unless action is taken soon.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Organic Recycling

U.S. Green Technology

The word ‘recycle’ is no longer a stranger to everyone. Particularly now that society is becoming more aware and mindful of the environment and how the continuous production of waste affects it. In general, recycling means to process or repurpose materials instead of disposing of them and sending them to landfills. It’s one of the best practices that help preserve nature.

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Tonga faces environmental damage after massive eruption

Inhabitat - Innovation

The world’s most powerful eruption in more than 30 years has left the Pacific Island nation of Tonga an ashy mess. The January 15 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha?apai, a massive underwater volcano, has left unknown environmental consequences in its wake.

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TÜV SÜD to assess wind turbines for the Korean market

altenergymag

TÜV SÜD can now offer design examination of wind turbine generators (WTGs) to be placed on the market in South Korea. The international testing and certification company has recently been approved by the Korean Energy Agency (KEA) for this task. Design examinations are a prerequisite for KEA certification and thus market access.

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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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Canton Avenue harkens back to the Silk Road of China

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Canton Avenue by MOK Design for the Westin Pazhou Hotel in Guangzhou is a walk back in time, revisiting the days when the hotel was a stop on the historic Silk Road of China.

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Sustainable Waste Management: Five Quick Tips To Reduce Your Waste

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable Waste Management. Through our partnership with Green Office Academy, we’ve created a list of five quick and useful tips on how to reduce your waste. These tips are generally oriented around office life, perfect for integration with budding workplace sustainability initiatives! For more information on sustainable waste management by recycling in the office, you can also check out this article.

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KROHNE’s PipePatrol Health Check Program Improves Overall Pipeline Operations

altenergymag

Evaluating and Guiding Pipeline Operators in the compliance requirements, selection, integration and management of leak detection technologies and methodologies

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Tesla to buy nickel from Talon Metals mine in Minnesota

Charged

Talon Nickel, a US subsidiary of Canada-based Talon Metals (TSX: TLO), has secured an agreement with Tesla to supply nickel concentrate from its Tamarack Nickel Project, a joint venture with mining giant Rio Tinto, in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Under the terms of the agreement, Tesla has committed to purchase 75,000 metric tons (165 million lbs) of nickel concentrate over 6 years, and has a preferential right to negotiate for the purchase of more.

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Should the world ban solar geoengineering? 60 experts say yes.

Grist

Last weekend, an underwater volcanic eruption covered the island nation of Tonga in ash. It sent tsunami waves surging across the entire West Coast. And it also released a cloud of sulfur dioxide, a chemical that, in large enough quantities, reflects the sun’s rays and cools the planet. Scientists quickly determined that, unlike Mount Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991 — which cooled the planet by around 1 degree Fahrenheit for several years — the Tonga volcano hadn’t released enough sulfur dioxide to

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DuPont ICS to introduce new laminate adhesive system for electronics

Charged

DuPont Interconnect Solutions (ICS) plans to introduce its Pyralux HP laminate adhesive system for high-performance electronics at the upcoming Institute for Printed Circuits (IPC) APEX Exposition in San Diego. The system is part of the Pyralux product line and will be available for the telecommunications, networking, medical, industrial, military and aerospace markets.

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Marcus Whitney, Jumpstart Nova: Investing in Black healthcare innovators

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 21 — For years, Marcus Whitney has been the only Black healthcare venture capital partner in Nashville, a city awash in. The post Marcus Whitney, Jumpstart Nova: Investing in Black healthcare innovators appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Over 450 Climate Scientists Say Advertising Industry Must End ‘Complicity’ in Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change.

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The Brief: The Week in impact investing: Abundance

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week in Impact Investing: Abundance ?? Abundance agenda. Deploying clean energy faster. Building more affordable homes. Developing ??sustainable. The post The Brief: The Week in impact investing: Abundance appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Brazil’s Energisa Group digitalises transformer monitoring with mPrest

Smart Energy International

Brazilian energy distribution firm Energisa Group is expanding the rollout of mPrest’s transformer health management system (mTHM) following a successful pilot. The pilot included the use of mTHM to monitor the health status of 112 transmission and distribution transformers. The utility is now expanding the use of the technology across an additional 88 transformers.

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'Irreparable damage to net zero': Ditching ECO levy would put 30,000 jobs at risk, industry body warns

Business Green

Scrapping £1bn ECO levy could see tens of thousands of jobs lost across the energy efficiency sector, Insulation Assurance Authority (IAA) warns. Ditching the £1bn environmental levy on UK energy bills which helps support household energy efficiency upgrades could result in tens of thousands of job losses across the country, an insulation industry body has warned.

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Sunpower will replace faulty connectors on C&I solar arrays

Renewable Energy World

Sunpower said it may have to spend as much as $31 million to replace faulty connectors on an unspecified number of commercial and industrial (CIS) solar arrays. Analyst firm Roth Capital Partners estimated that as many as 1,000 sites representing around 9 MW of installed capacity could be affected. In a statement , Sunpower said that a product quality assessment identified a cracking issue that developed over time in factory-installed connectors within third-party commercial equipment supplied t

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Enel’s Gridspertise secures contracts to supply over 650,000 smart meters

Smart Energy International

Gridspertise, a new company established by Italian multinational utility Enel to help accelerate the digitalisation of the energy sector, has bagged contracts that will see the firm supply over 650,000 smart meters and more than 150,000 smart grid accessories. The contracts have been signed with 12 European distribution system operators (DSOs) with the majority of them being Italian.

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UK airports awarded funding to help deliver 'quicker, quieter, and greener' flightpaths

Business Green

Funding forms part of government's plan to redesign UK airspace to enable more efficient routes that can help curb aviation emissions. UK airports have today been given a £3.7m funding boost to help develop more efficient flight routes and navigation technologies, which the government claims could cut down on CO2, air pollution, noise, flight delays, and journey times.

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Bitcoin mining – improvements in sustainable power mix, technological efficiency

Smart Energy International

The Bitcoin Mining Council has reported that its members are now using electricity with an almost two-thirds sustainable power mix. Based on this and other data the Council estimates that the global Bitcoin mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix has grown to reach approximately 58.5% by the end of 2021, up 1% from Q3 and 2.5% from the first Q2 2021 survey.

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Global Briefing: Rio Tinto loses lithium mining license in Serbia

Business Green

Plus EU beats renewables target, Shell faces CCS concerns, New Zealand's first electric ferry and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Rio Tinto lithium mining license revoked in Serbia. The Serbian government has revoked Rio Tinto's lithium exploration licenses in the Eastern European country after major protests against the mining giant's proposed activities erupted over environmental concerns, according to reports.

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PGE pilots iron-flow based long-duration energy storage with ESS

Smart Energy International

Portland General Electric (PGE) will pilot ESS’ iron-flow-based 3MWh Energy Center as a long-duration energy storage system that can help accelerate the company’s transition to clean energy. PGE will use the Energy Center for frequency response, contingency reserve, voltage and VAR optimisation, demand response, resource optimisation and grid resilience in Oregon.

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Olympic champion Chris Boardman to head government's Active Travel body

Business Green

The government has today launched the Active Travel England agency, and promised £5.5m in new funding for cycling and active travel schemes. The UK's new cycling and walking body has appointed former Olympic champion Chris Boardman as its interim national commissioner. Active Travel England is to be launched today by the Department for Transport (DfT) in support of the government's previous £2bn commitment to increase levels of cycling and walking, and improve active travel infrastructure

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Demand response comes to Samsung’s SmartThings

Smart Energy International

Samsung’s smart home app users are set to be able to access a new portfolio of utility integration and grid service programmes via SmartThings Energy. The offerings from California based energy management company Enersponse should open up the demand response market for home owners and other small energy users across the US in an easily accessible way.

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UK government rejects plan for Aquind power cable link between France and England

Business Green

Aquind claimed project would support UK climate goals, but project faced concerns over environmental impact and developer's donations to Conservative Party. Plans for a 2GW electricity cable linking France and England have been rejected by the UK government, on the grounds that the developer behind the project had not explored whether there were "more appropriate alternatives" for the interconnector's proposed route.