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Sun Chemical

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Sun Chemical. taylor flores. Sat, 08/29/2020 - 09:58. Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC Group, is a leading producer of printing inks, coatings and supplies, pigments, polymers, liquid compounds, solid compounds and application materials. Together with DIC, Sun Chemical has annual sales of more than $7.5 billion and over 20,000 employees supporting customers around the world.

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Buying Local: Understand the Pros and Cons of Striving to Purchase your Goods Locally

Green Business Bureau

Buying local is touted as the best way to be environmentally friendly while supporting local communities at the same time. By purchasing food and other goods that are produced locally, consumers help stimulate their regional economy, help create and retain valuable jobs, supports families and strengthen community and culture. Understanding the strengths, limitations and potential pitfalls of local consumption is key to making the most of the trend.

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An Overview of Natural Resources

The Environmental Blog

Today when I walked around my herbal garden, I noticed the sights and smell of the spring growth. It turned me mesmerized to its aesthetic beauty. People enjoy outdoorsy like this and even more like camping, tramping, fishing, ski, snowboard, swimming, walking along the beaches, collecting shells, and kicking sand as these rejuvenates mood and drive a favorable atmosphere.

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California’s New Regulations On Heavy Duty Diesels Is Equivalent Of Removing 16 Million Cars From Road

Forbes Green Tech

It was a decision 10 years in the making, but last Thursday the California Air Resources Board finally approved new regulations that will dramatically reduce the Nitrogen Oxide emissions in the state.

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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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Open Letter Warns Us to Stop Wasting Time and Act Now

Green Market Oracle

An open letter to world leaders warns that we must act now or face the collapse of civilization. The clock is ticking and what we do in the coming months is absolutely essential. On July 16, 2020 Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Anuna De Wever and Adélaïde Charlier published the open letter. Since then, more than 125,000 people have signed this letter which speaks to our moral responsibility to act.

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Sun Chemical

AGreenLiving

Sun Chemical taylor flores Sat, 08/29/2020 – 09:58 Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC Group, is a leading producer of printing inks, coatings and supplies, pigments, polymers, liquid compounds, solid compounds and application materials. Together with DIC, Sun Chemical has annual sales of more than $7.5 billion and over 20,000 employees supporting customers around the world.

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Earth911 Reader: Recycling Evolution, Plastic Consequences, and Packaging Progress

AGreenLiving

We scan the media for useful and interesting stories about … The post Earth911 Reader: Recycling Evolution, Plastic Consequences, and Packaging Progress appeared first on Earth 911. Read more: Earth911 Reader: Recycling Evolution, Plastic Consequences, and Packaging Progress.

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National Parks And Pebble Mine Reveal The Influence Of Competitive Elections And Conservative Celebrities

Forbes Green Tech

Trump administration rolled back many environmental regulations and supports fracking. Yet, it enacted a law to fund National Parks and halted permitting of the Pebble Mine. Read how conservative celebrities and competitive Senate elections made this happen.

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Peterbilt Model 220EV Now Available for Customer Orders

CleanTechnica

Peterbilt is leading the charge in alternative powertrain offerings and is pleased to announce the Model 220EV is now available for customer orders.

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Solar Panel Prices Have Dropped Off Cliff & Sunk Into Ocean — Solar Panels 9× Cheaper Than In 2006

CleanTechnica

Solar panel prices have come down a tremendously in recent years, including rooftop solar panel prices.

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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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Tesla Giga Berlin Update — Yet Another Roof Goes Up (Videos)

CleanTechnica

As the end of August approaches, let's check in again on the construction progress at Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory. Guess what? There's yet another roof going up, this time on the body-in-white building.

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Vestas Wins 409 MW Order in Brazil

CleanTechnica

Vestas has received a 409 MW order from the joint venture between Votorantim Energia and the Canadian fund CPP Investments for the projects Ventos do Piauí II and Ventos do Piauí III, in Serra do Inácio, in the state of Piauí, in Brazil. Vestas has secured a 409 MW order with the joint venture between [&hellip.

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All-Electric Ford Mustang Mach-E Sound: A “New Breed” of Sound

CleanTechnica

The all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E sounds like a sci-fi fantasy — so much that it inspired a Detroit-based electronic music artist Matthew Dear to transform its sound into song.

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Hurricane Laura: Big, Colliding Problems in Gulf & Elsewhere Need Science-Based Solutions Now

CleanTechnica

Hurricane Laura, one of the most intense hurricanes to hit the Gulf in over a century, made landfall along the Texas-Louisiana border. It is being described as a historic storm because a category four hurricane of this strength has never made landfall in this part of the Gulf Coast.

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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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Tesla Introduced A Business Model The World Has Not Seen Before

CleanTechnica

You can save tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars with continuous improvements to a Tesla, which is a stark contrast to other automaker that do something else continuously: ask you to pay again!

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Puerto Rico Regulators Want IRP To Include More Renewables, VPPs, and Mini Grids

CleanTechnica

Regulators have rejected part of an IRP filed by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority that calls for building new gas generating plants. Instead, they want to see more renewables, storage, virtual power plants, and mini grids.

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Panama Cancels Order For Diesel Buses, Will Purchase 195 Electric Buses Instead

CleanTechnica

Panama has decide to cancel an order for 160 new diesel buses and replace them with electric buses from BYD instead.

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Volvo LIGHTS Project Broadens Electric Truck Charging Options In North America

CleanTechnica

Volvo Trucks North America has facilitated an important step toward the wide-scale electrification of medium- and heavy-duty trucks in North America through the expansion of charging options for fleet operators.

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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?