The secret life of ESG ratings
GreenBiz
MAY 9, 2022
Part 1 of a three-part series on ratings and ratings agencies and some of the challenges they are facing
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Data deluge
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2022
More data is becoming available to help with understanding why so much sewage is being spilled in UK rivers, and fascinating efforts are underway to interpret it and present it to the public in an accessible and transparent format.
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Have corporate sustainability advisory panels had consequential impacts?
GreenBiz
MAY 9, 2022
What began several decades ago as an effort to improve corporate environmental performance has now evolved into a pre-governance role counseling corporations on impactful business
Water innovation ‘fantasy league’
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2022
An event with a strong track record for selecting technologies that go on to succeed in the water arena, BlueTech Forum (Vancouver, 7-8 June) has selected its first tranche of “innovation showcase” companies.
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 Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.
Helping Create a Nationwide Recycling Infrastructure
GreenBiz
MAY 9, 2022
Landfills across the country are rapidly reaching capacity, and it is therefore more important than ever that we remain mindful of how we dispose of our waste.
SHARC Energy to Convert Seattle’s Wastewater into Recycled Green Energy
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MAY 9, 2022
SHARC Energy Receives Purchase Order From California/Columbia Hydronics Corporation for first district WET system installation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Vancouver, B.C, Canada (May 3, 2022) – SHARC International Systems Inc.(CSE: CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) (“SHARC?Energy”
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We Need More Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
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Sustainable Kitchens: Eco-Friendly Design Ideas
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Studying sustainability? Use your community power
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Designing DC fast charging stations for next-gen EVs
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Plant extracts
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In many cuisines, okra serves as a master thickener of stews and soups. The goo from that fruit and other plants, such as aloe, cactus and psylium, can also clean water and wastewater of some types of solid pollutants, as well as some that are dissolved.
Shortage of battery-grade graphite could slow down EV adoption
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Graphite is a critical mineral for battery anodes, and surging demand for EVs is colliding with a limited global graphite supply.
Bugs, good and bad
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A new study seems to show that chlorinated water supplies don’t disturb healthy gut microbiomes in young children, addressing concerns that such effects could lead to longer-term susceptibility to chronic disease. Child retrieves chlorine-treated water from a rural kiosk in Kenya.
Plant-based bottles and paper straws: spotting false solutions in anti-plastic declarations
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Months after the world’s biggest corporates agreed to develop a treaty to stop plastic pollution, experts examine solutions that corporates have claimed will be able to stem the global waste issue
Sponsored Content: Low energy mixers make the long haul
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MAY 9, 2022
Still going strong: Fifteen years on, over 200 Landia mixers continue to serve a major UK water utility. Fifteen years since a major UK water utility chose Landia as its framework supplier for anoxic mixers, over 200 of the units continue to work day and night across the region.
Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work
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A growing flood of Bangladeshi children are seeing their education end permanently as they flee climate impacts for urban slums
Sponsored Content: Advances in optical gas imaging make leak detection
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Global business survey finds 'little consistency' in how sustainability leadership roles are organised
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Among 300 firms, there are 44 different job titles for the same sustainability head function. According to the study by Dow Jones, the corporate world's approach to sustainability is muddled and clear reporting lines are lacking
Sponsored Content: Innovative odour abatement for even challenging budgets
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Community, connectivity foster healthier reefs, marine life in Bali: study
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A new review highlights improvements that can be made to the conservation of Bali’s coral reefs, which face multiple local stressors alongside warming waters and coral bleaching
Sponsored Content: Reciprocating action solves heat exchange challenges
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By Matt Hale, International Sales & Marketing Director, HRS Heat Exchangers. Scraped surface heat exchangers (SSHEs) have been used for difficult heat transfer applications involving viscous fluids or where fouling is an issue, such as sludge evaporation.
APRIL appoints Susan Slabbert as interim sustainability head for rayon fibre business
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The former environmental control officer for a coal plant and mine has been tasked to help the Indonesian pulp and paper maker meet its sustainability commitments, which include achieving net-zero emissions by 2030
Sponsored Content: Non-contact radar to support the end user
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Sponsored Content: Firms partner to tackle trommel fines
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EV sales dropped in March—or did they?
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Spore circumspection
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A new study led by Imperial College London appears to find that drug-resistant mould is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people’s lungs. A scan of aspergillus mold at 235 magnifications obtained using a scanning electron microscope.
Mapping ecological restoration knowledge: linking theory and practice in an interactive online platform
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Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Ecosystems globally have become degraded through land use change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change in the past decades. Ecosystem restoration is a powerful tool to help combat land and water degradation and the associated damage to human livelihoods. Currently, information regarding restoration science and practices are dispersed across…
Pong preferences puzzle piece
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What smells we like or dislike is primarily determined by the structure of the particular odour molecule. A collaborative study seems to show that people share odour preferences regardless of cultural background.
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Battery recycling firm Li-Cycle has partnered with Veolia Water Technologies , a designer of water treatment plants and equipment, to use its HPD crystallization technology for battery recycling at its Rochester Hub, a facility scheduled to be fully operational in 2023.
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