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Edge Environment

GreenBiz

Edge Environment. taylor flores. Wed, 07/14/2021 - 09:37. Edge is an international sustainability consultancy focused on serving clients based in Asia-Pacific and the Americas. We were founded in 2008 and our teams are based in Australia, Chile, and the United States. We exist to help our clients generate value by creating truly sustainable economies and societies.

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Worst drought in a century has hit over 93% of West Coast

Inhabitat - Innovation

Western U.S. states are experiencing the worst drought in the past century. Figures released by the U.S Drought Monitor show that 93% of the land in seven Western states is under drought.

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Sticking points when selecting a pump

Envirotec Magazine

Pump manufacturer Seepex discusses the selection of pumps to handle wastewater flocculants, and outlines why progressive cavity pumps are a better choice than their centrifugal counterparts, in this kind of application. A build-up of material in centrifugal pumps severely affects the flow rate. When it comes to specifying a pump, the most important criteria is that it should be fit for purpose.

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Casa CBC incorporates greenery at every level

Inhabitat - Innovation

While a home provides shelter, it can also highlight exciting architectural design and a marriage with the surrounding landscape. In the case of CBC House, it’s all that and more.

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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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Big Changes to the Weee Regulations This Year

Envirotec Magazine

The UK Government is planning to consult on updates to the WEEE Regulations later this year. They are likely to result in major changes to the system, as compliance expert Recolight explains. Top of the list for many would be the inclusion of a requirement for producers to finance the collection of small waste electricals from the consumer’s kerbside.

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LA County beaches close after an 8-hour sewage spill

Inhabitat - Innovation

On Monday night, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued an order to close several beaches along Santa Monica Bay following a raw sewage spillover on Sunday.

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ACPV designs Building D, an office focused on employee health

Inhabitat - Innovation

A previously industrial area in the southern part of Milan has a long-term plan for renewed development.

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Slim SAF meets SEPA spec

Envirotec Magazine

Technology from wastewater treatment specialist WPL has been selected by Scottish Water to deliver enhanced ammonia removal at a village treatment works. Tightening environmental consents and an increasing population has led the public utility to upgrade Ferniegair wastewater treatment works in South Lanarkshire. The site has a tight footprint and is in close proximity to residential housing, both important factors considered early in the project design phase, which was carried out by WGM Engine

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Celebrate and Communicate Your Accomplishments: Executive Guide To Becoming A Sustainable Business – Step 9

Green Business Bureau

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values.

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Sponsored Content: Digester temperature: To heat or to cool?

Envirotec Magazine

Maintaining the optimum digestion temperature may require additional heating or cooling. By Matt Hale, International Sales & Marketing Director, HRS Heat Exchangers. This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with HRS Heat Exchangers. Maintaining an optimal digester temperature is a key aspect of maximising biogas production and overall process efficiency in anaerobic digestion (AD).

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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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sonnen Partners with Sustainable Westchester to Launch sonnenCommunity New York, a Virtual Power Plant Operating in the NYISO Market

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sonnen and Sustainable Westchester will build a first-of-its-kind solar plus battery program that brings resiliency, renewable energy and grid services to homeowners in the NYISO Market

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Sponsored Content: High flow pump simplifies asbestos and air sampling

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with Casella Solutions. . Asbestos-related diseases take the lives of more than 39,000 Americans every year. Despite the material’s known health impacts, it can be found in older homes and industrial properties and continues to be used in products such as gaskets, friction products, roofing materials and fireproofing materials, posing a threat to workers in construction and general industry.

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Osokoa produces fun, playful organic children's clothing

Inhabitat - Innovation

These fun, gender-neutral children's clothes are made from organic cotton.

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Sponsored content: Viscoelastic coating technology is a tight acquisition for anti-corrision expert

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with Denso. . Winn & Coales International , a leading manufacturer of corrosion prevention and sealing products, has acquired the global Viscotaq business, including Amcorr Products and Services Inc (‘Amcorr’), manufacturer of viscoelastic protective coatings. Amcorr, based in San Antonio, USA is the formulator and manufacturer of a viscoelastic protective coating technology, Viscotaq.

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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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Exro partners with Linamar to develop a new integrated eAxle

Charged

Calgary-based Exro Technologies is a developer of power electronics for electric motors and batteries. Exro’s motor control technology, the Coil Driver, is designed to enable intelligent optimization of electric powertrains for efficient energy consumption. Exro has announced a strategic development agreement with Linamar, a global Tier 1 auto parts manufacturer, to develop a new eAxle integrated electric drive solution, using Exro’s Coil Driver technology to improve the cost and performance of

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Something in the air

Envirotec Magazine

Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) say they have invented an artificial nose equipped to perform continuous bacterial monitoring – a capability they say has never previously been achieved and one with multiple applications in medicine, environmental monitoring and food. Bacteria were grown on Agar plates and emissions were monitored by placing electrodes 2.5cm above the samples.

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Investing in marginalized communities to drive the COVID recovery

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 14 – The two-track recovery threatens to leave distressed communities even further behind. Consider Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood: “A community that was. The post Investing in marginalized communities to drive the COVID recovery appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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World’s lakes losing oxygen rapidly as world warms, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly – faster than in the oceans – a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and drinking water quality. Research published in early June in Nature found that oxygen levels in surveyed lakes across the temperate zone have declined 5.5% at the surface and 18.6% in deep waters since 1980.

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New York City DOT to install 120 curbside Level 2 chargers

Charged

New York City plans to install its first curbside charging stations by this October. According to The Wall Street Journal, the city’s Department of Transportation will install 100 Level 2 charging ports for public use and 20 for the city’s vehicle fleet. Public charging will reportedly cost $2.50 per hour during the day and $1 per hour overnight. The city currently has some 1,400 Level 2 chargers and 117 DC fast chargers, most of them located inside parking garages.

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Data loggers aid wastewater sampling compliance

Envirotec Magazine

At 600 sites across the South West of England, wastewater samples are collected, transported, stored and analysed with the help of robust and easy-to-use Tinytag temperature data loggers. Tinytag data loggers have proved to be an indispensable tool for temperature monitoring of wastewater samples for a regional UK water company. Hardy outdoor data loggers with robust IP68 waterproof cases (Tinytag Plus 2) and data loggers with digital displays and splash-proof casing (Tinytag View 2) monitor sam

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S-5! Launches New Solar Calculator

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Advanced Solar Project Layouts From Start to Finish

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More solution than pollution?

Envirotec Magazine

A pig farm in North Carolina says it has increased its biogas yields by 10 percent following the installation of new pumps, with improvements to the mixing of feedstock used for anaerobic digestion. With a rectangular, rather than round, lagoon, ensuring an adequate mixing of feedstock is seemingly a challenge. In a bid to reduce its impact on the environment, Butler Farms developed its own pig-manure-powered biogas operation in 2011.

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Two dozen charts map the trajectory of sustainable finance, food, energy and mobility

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 14 – San Francisco and London-based Generation Investment Management, the $36 billion investment firm founded by Al Gore and David Blood, has for. The post Two dozen charts map the trajectory of sustainable finance, food, energy and mobility appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Battery-powered actuator savings

Envirotec Magazine

Yorkshire Water is rolling out 34 remote battery powered actuators across key sites in the region, and the utility says it is already seeing benefits. The water company is working in partnership with R2M Limited to install 3S remote battery powered actuators. The new additions will mean that the flow of water can be managed centrally, from the company’s control room, and has the potential to save significant time in the event of a burst or water quality event – meaning less interruptions for cus

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There’s no building back better without investing in underserved communities

Impact Alpha

Between record levels of government stimulus, an unprecedented vaccination campaign and a buzzing economy, it’s easy to see reasons for optimism as America. The post There’s no building back better without investing in underserved communities appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Resolving the seven-year glitch

Envirotec Magazine

Design and manufacturing firm Celeros Flow Technology says it has resolved pump performance issues and increased operational life in a recent project with a major water customer. Replacing cast-iron with aluminium bronze impellers (pictured) more than doubled mean time between failures (MTBF). This project illustrates a situation where detective work has led to significantly improved performance with four BB1 pumps.

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Marposs e.d.c. detects latent motor defects with partial discharge

Charged

Sponsored by Marposs. In times of great change, Marposs is taking up the challenge to remain a strong partner for the automotive market in the e-mobility era. The unprecedented global growth of electric motor technology, especially within the automotive sector, brings a whole new set of component reliability expectations to manufacturers and end users.

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Software yields savings for utility

Envirotec Magazine

At a critical pumping station supplying a major tourist destination near Paris, deployment of a proprietary pump monitoring system has provided an immediate saving of 21%, claims pump systems optimisation expert Riventa. Commissioned by water utility Saur , Riventa was challenged to identify potential reductions in life-cycle costs, as well as show how optimisation of controls and operations would bring about immediate and long-term savings in running costs, including energy efficiency.

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Charging provider Mer and fleet charging specialist Paua form roaming partnership

Charged

Two UK charging providers, Mer and Paua, have formed a new roaming partnership. Paua’s fleet customers will now be able to use Mer’s network of over 160 chargers. Mer, which is owned by Norwegian renewable energy provider Statkraft, uses renewable energy sources to power its network. In the UK, it offers charging to businesses and local authorities.

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Sensitive methane sensing on a budget?

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers have developed a new sensor that they suggest could allow practical and low cost detection of low concentrations of methane gas. The new sensor uses an interband cascade light emitting device (ICLED). Measuring methane emissions is important because the gas contributes to global warming and air pollution. Relevant sectors include agriculture and the waste industry.

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GM invests in California geothermal lithium project

Charged

General Motors is investing in a US lithium extraction project that could become the country’s largest by 2024. GM said it will make a “multimillion-dollar investment” in Controlled Thermal Resources ’ Hell’s Kitchen geothermal brine project near California’s Salton Sea, and will help to develop the project. “This will supply a sizeable amount of our lithium needs,” Tim Grewe, GM’s Director of Electrification Strategy, told Reuters, adding that GM is also talking with other US lithium producers.

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Lithium isn’t needed for trains and buses

Renewable Energy World

If the 19th century was the age of coal and the 20th the age of oil, the 21st century is starting to look like the age of lithium. A metal so soft it can be cut with a steel knife and for years known for its role treating bipolar disorder, lithium has quietly become the most important metal for several important industries — electronics, electric vehicles and renewable energy — because of its importance to energy storage.

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What counts as a heat wave? It’s a life-or-death question.

Grist

You know a heat wave when you feel it — oppressively hot weather that makes you desperate for an ice-cold drink, or better yet, air conditioning. But nailing down what counts as a heat wave is surprisingly tricky. Temperatures vary widely from place to place — normal summertime weather in Las Vegas would be considered scorching in Seattle. Then there’s the matter of climate change.

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Ecosystem Integrity Fund closes $250 million sustainability tech fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 14 — The San Francisco-based firm raised $100 million for its third fund in 2019 to invest in early- and growth-stage. The post Ecosystem Integrity Fund closes $250 million sustainability tech fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.