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7 Environment-Friendly Ways to Grow Nails

Green Living Guy

Nails are a green issue. Healthy nails do tell everything. Yet for women, IDK how you do it. I mean heels, manicure-pedicure, and blow-drying are every girl’s favorite. Chip-free nails may be a big thing in the nail world, but fingernails show your overall health. Even though keratin protein supports nail growth, your fingernails should Continue reading "7 Environment-Friendly Ways to Grow Nails".

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Save 50% on native plants & rain barrels

Greenability Magazine

Plant a rain garden, install a rain barrel or add native plants to your landscape, and you can receive up to a 50-percent rebate through a Contain the Rain program in Johnson County, KS. To encourage property owners to use best practices for stormwater management, Johnson County Stormwater Management Program offers the refunds to homeowners and businesses that make improvements on their properties.

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Sustainable Business Ideas For Eco-Minded Entrepreneurs

Green Living Guy

Sustainability has become more than a trend. It’s not an option anymore but a necessity and more and more businesses are going green to support the initiative. Eco-friendly companies are incredibly committed to sustainability with the primary goal to create a positive impact on worldwide communities while identifying valuable marketing opportunities that allow them to Continue reading "Sustainable Business Ideas For Eco-Minded Entrepreneurs".

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We Could Massively Slash Carbon Emissions By Improving Just 5% of Our Powerplants

Unsustainable

If every country aimed to improve the efficiency of its 5%-10% most carbon-emitting powerplants, we'd be more likely to actually hit the 30-50% reductions target.

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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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5 Reasons Why You Should Consider A Home Energy Audit

Green Living Guy

According to this year’s Annual Energy Outlook, the demand for electricity in the U.S. is projected to increase over the next several years. With so many households reliant on electricity for their everyday needs, homeowners and renters alike will benefit from a home energy audit. This will help them assess their energy needs and curb Continue reading "5 Reasons Why You Should Consider A Home Energy Audit".

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California Commits $10M To e-Bike Purchase Assistance, Other e-Bike Adoption Programs

CleanTechnica

In a recent post, I explained how micromobility (e-bikes, scooters, etc) gives state and local governments a much cheaper lever they can pull to reduce emissions, with or without support from a dysfunctional federal government. As it turns out, I’m far from the only person to think that way, and the California Bicycle Coalition is […].

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Do Electric Vehicles Pollute As Much As Gas-Powered Ones?

CleanTechnica

Only full battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have the potential to be very low-GHG pathways.

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We Cannot Short-Change Transit—Not Now

CleanTechnica

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. By Deron Lovaas Given the urbanization of our nation, the overdue focus on racial inequity and the threat of climate change, our nation needs to invest much, much more in cleaner transportation options, especially public transit. While some in Congress recognize this imperative, news reports indicate that a bipartisan […].

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There Remains An Ever Lighter Footprint, Electric Micromobility & Feet

CleanTechnica

CleanTechnica focuses much of its news on cutting-edge electric cars and trucks. Yet, there is a whole world out there that is not as car centric as the US. Beyond that car-centric view, many cultures transport themselves in more diverse forms of e-mobility with an ease some of us wish for and prefer. They create […].

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How Tesla Can Massively Improve The Repair & Service Experience, Avoid Insane Repair Quotes

CleanTechnica

In several articles this year, my colleagues and I covered some of the problems with Tesla service and repair that lead to extreme repair bills for customers. After I discuss some of them, I’m going to go over an industry-standard repair practice that Tesla could adopt, and perhaps improve upon, that would solve this problem. […].

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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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The True War On Christmas

CleanTechnica

A new front has opened in the War On Christmas: extreme heat and drought fueled by climate change. The record-shattering heatwave that baked the Pacific Northwest last month took a potentially devastating toll on Christmas tree farms in the region. “The second day of the heat, it was 116. I came in the driveway that night and seen the trees […].

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Form Energy Reveals Iron-Air 100 Hour Storage Battery

CleanTechnica

Form Energy says a pilot iron-air battery storage system will be operational by 2023.

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Ford F-150 Lightning vs Tesla Cybertruck — Side-by-Side Comparison

CleanTechnica

Originally published on EVANNEX. by Charles Morris Several electric pickup trucks are slated to hit the market later this year, but the two models everyone’s talking about are Ford’s F-150 Lightning and Tesla’s Cybertruck. They’re pretty different vehicles, to say the least, and there are plenty of point-by-point comparisons coming out. In a recent recap, I discussed […].

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Scientists’ Heatwave Warning 20 Years Ago Was Tragically Prescient

CleanTechnica

The mass casualty heatwave that broiled the Pacific Northwest and western Canada last month is precisely the kind of catastrophe predicted by climate scientists two decades ago, Yale Climate Connections reports. In 2001, the IPCC’s Third Assessment warned the greatest increases in heat stress were expected in “mid- to high-latitude (temperate) cities, especially in populations with non-adapted architecture […].

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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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Network Pushing For BICOC-Led Environmental Justice Funding Gains Momentum

CleanTechnica

A campaign to increase philanthropic funding of environmental groups led by people of color is gaining momentum, but the vast majority of major donors still decline to make hard commitments, the AP reports. Donors of Color Network, the group leading the campaign, is pushing major funders to commit to releasing funding data and direct 30% of their […].

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30 Million Solar Homes Initiative Promises 1.77 Million Jobs

CleanTechnica

The 30 Million Solar plan would create 1.77 million jobs and save utility customers billions.

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From the Sublime to the Ludicrous

CleanTechnica

By David Waterworth Back in 2014 I took a Tesla Model S for a test drive. The salesperson sat beside me, he put it in Ludicrous mode and Autopilot. I drove out to the motorway and he said: “Floor it!” Then, “Take your hands off the wheel.” As my body pressed back into the driver’s […].

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Sandy Munro Experiences Tesla’s FSD Beta V9 — “I’m pretty happy with what I see in the way of progress here.”

CleanTechnica

YouTuber DirtyTesla, aka Chris, recently picked up Sandy Munro and took him for a ride to show Munro Tesla FSD version 9, which was released earlier this month. To start, though, the video below is a behind-the-scenes look at Sandy Munro Live — Chris got to have a tour of Sandy’s work and the recording […].

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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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XL Fleet And eNow Collaborate To Reduce Emissions From Refrigerated Trailers

CleanTechnica

XL Fleet and eNow are working together to bring solar powered refrigerated trailers to the US market.