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How To Have an Eco-friendly Easter

U.S. Green Technology

You might not have even considered Easter to be a wasteful holiday — after all, there generally aren’t gifts exchanged or the need for extravagant, wasteful decorations, but when you think smaller, you’ll see that even some little changes can make a difference. It’s a green job for which everyone can be up to the task, so let’s take a look at three easy strategies to have a more sustainable easter.

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Twelve climate innovators that could accelerate shift to clean energy

Renew Economy

These twelve technologies could help accelerate the shift to green energy and a zero emissions world. The post Twelve climate innovators that could accelerate shift to clean energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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New methanol ships start to change ocean freight amid efforts to replace some bunker fuel and cut down on emissions

Energy Central

Durng the next three years there will be an unprecedented number of methanol ship launches for uses including container transportation with the development possible thanks to new methanol engine offerings to help shippers lower emissions compared with diesel and bunker fuels. Maersk has announced vessels to be powered by methanol. The first will be in operation in 2024.

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Investing in what matters: how do we enable biodiversity protection at scale?

Eco-Business

With more funding being committed in the past few years to sustainability and nature-positive outcomes, where can investors put their money in order to effectively address the biodiversity crisis?

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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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Graph of the Day: Wind beats both nuclear and coal for first time in US

Renew Economy

Wind reaches new milestone in US, beating out both coal and nuclear power for a single day. The post Graph of the Day: Wind beats both nuclear and coal for first time in US appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Asbestos mining health hazards continues to plague this tribal village in Jharkhand

Eco-Business

Asbestos mining is now banned in India but experts note that authorities failed to ensure scientific reclamation of the mine, leaving the local communities exposed to it.

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Environmental factors behind depression in Sri Lanka

Eco-Business

Environmental factors rather than genetic ones affected the socio-economic and emotional well-being of people in Sri Lanka, according to a study.

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Pioneering Electric Buses in Pune

CleanTechnica

A Case Study of Pune’s Initial Electric Bus Procurement and Operations By Pune Municipal Corporation, Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited, Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited, RMI, and RMI India Electrifying public transport is critical to decarbonizing urban mobility. Although the domestic electric bus (e-bus) market in India is nascent, projections indicate 4 in 10 […].

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How can finance help China’s heavy industries decarbonise?

Eco-Business

Industries like steelmaking need better access to ‘transition finance’ but greenwashing must be avoided.

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Tesla Trippin’ to the Vantage Dawn Towers Benowa

CleanTechnica

Glenn and Sue Hazeldine are very happily married and living at the Vantage Dawn apartment tower in Benowa, Queensland, Australia. However, Sue feels like she has been sharing her husband with someone else. Glenn has been obsessed with Elon Musk for years. Every bit of information and story that Glen could find, read, listen to, […].

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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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Is Charger Rage the Next New Thing?

CleanTechnica

One of the benefits for Electrical Vehicle Owners in Australia is that we can see what is coming. Will that make it easier? Probably not. But for some it means they can be prepared. A few years ago, EV websites were full of photos of Superchargers in Europe and the US being ICEd. Now, Australian […].

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Tesla Ends Lease Buyouts, Stops Providing Charging Cables

CleanTechnica

Tesla has made a few changes to the customer experience.

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Volkswagen Is Looking Into Developing An Electric Truck

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen of America CEO Scott Keogh has shared some exciting news with Business Insider. Volkswagen might launch an electric pickup truck that would compete with Ford’s F-15-Lightning and Chevrolet’s Silverado EV here in the US. He told Insider that they saw a battery-powered truck as a huge opportunity for Volkswagen to enter the electric pickup […].

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Tesla’s Most Noteworthy Achievement Is Not What You Think It Is

CleanTechnica

Tesla’s most noteworthy achievement isn’t what you might think it is. Although Tesla has several noteworthy achievements, is constantly breaking its own records, and has become the loudest voice for sustainability, there is one achievement that I think is most often overlooked. It’s not the millions of electric vehicles, the community or community-related events, the […].

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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 Led The Way, And Now Legacy Automakers — & Their Loyal Customers — Want In

CleanTechnica

The foreshadowing was everywhere — IPCC reports, the Paris climate agreement, increasingly climate-savvy consumers. Then why did it take so long for legacy automakers to innovate and stay competitive with Tesla?