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Practical Solutions For Eco-Friendly Office Design

The Environmental Blog

The consequences of global warming and the abuse of Earth’s natural resources are becoming more apparent, and people are starting to take notice. Everyone from political leaders to everyday citizens is reevaluating their wasteful behaviors and making intentional changes to save the planet. As a result, they’re demanding more from the brands they work for and do business with.

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Pathways to Greener Entertainment • 10/21/21

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

October 21, 2021. 5:00 PM – 6 :30 PM PDT. Virtual Event. Register. A fireside chat with two sustainability leaders highlighting new sustainable practices and professional opportunities in the Media industry. Los Angeles is known as the “Creative Capital of the World” and is the home of Hollywood. The City of Light is a major global center for media and entertainment as well as the center of the motion picture industry.

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Understanding The Connection Between Climate Change And Infectious Diseases

The Environmental Blog

The world is forever grateful to the brilliant minds that worked around the clock to develop an effective vaccine to prevent the infectious disease known as the coronavirus. In record time, Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson discovered a solution that would ultimately save millions of lives. Though the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has played a significant role in the world’s ability to return to normalcy, scientists and medical experts worry that infectious diseases will become more

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Save The Date – ESG Reporting/Corporate Sustainability Panel • 10/28/21

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

October 28, 2021. 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PST. Virtual Event. Coming Soon. The post Save The Date – ESG Reporting/Corporate Sustainability Panel • 10/28/21 appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.

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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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4 Ways Businesses Are Doing Their Part To Save The Environment

The Environmental Blog

Humans have begun to recognize the detrimental influence of our actions on the planet and the environment over time. Many individuals are making adjustments, whether it is in our energy consumption, our contribution to increasing landfills, or several other areas. People are increasingly seeking methods to decrease their carbon footprint and live more ecologically friendly lives.

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10 Ways to Reduce Everyday Pollution

Unsustainable

These 10 Simple Ways Allow us to Consider our Potential Avenues of Everyday Pollution, and are Well Worthy of Contemplation if we're Trying to Make a Positive Change.

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Volkswagen Takes 3 Out Of Top 4 Spots In July In Germany — Plugin Vehicle Sales Report

CleanTechnica

The German plugin vehicle market scored over 55,000 registrations last month, with both plugin powertrains slowing down their growth (+52% year over year for BEVs and +58% year over year for PHEVs, compared with 185% and 182% respectively in the 2021 tally). As a result, last month’s plugin share ended at 24% (11% BEV), and […].

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Agora CO2 Redox Battery Wins Global Deeptech Competitions & Has 1 Year ROI

CleanTechnica

Agora's CO2-based redox flow batteries will be a core technology assisting us to bend the Keeling Curve back down. Hello Tomorrow indeed.

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FedEx Orders 120 Xos Electric Trucks

CleanTechnica

The electric truck market has been a hot topic in the past year or so. But have you heard of Xos? No, you haven’t. (If you have, I apologize, and I commend you.) Of course, this is not the pickup truck market we’re talking about. Xos produces electric Class 5 and Class 8 commercial trucks, […].

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Wireless EV Charging For Highways — Does Indiana Have The Solution?

CleanTechnica

INDOT, Purdue to Develop Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging Solution for Highway Infrastructure.

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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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Hyundai Rolling Out Its Own “RoboShuttle”

CleanTechnica

No one wants to be left out of the robotaxi future. The latest auto company with news in this sector is Hyundai. Though, it’s skipping the cars/robotaxis and jumping into the van/roboshuttle sector. The roboshuttle service launched in Sejong Smart City, South Korea, on August 9. Naturally, this is not “level 5,” go-anywhere roboshuttle service. […].

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Argonne Study On Costs & Benefits Of New Transportation Technologies The Most Comprehensive To Date

CleanTechnica

A new Argonne study offers the most complete understanding yet of the costs of owning and operating a vehicle and how those costs vary by powertrain, from the conventional to the cutting-edge. Advanced vehicle technologies are sometimes more expensive to purchase than conventional technologies but often pay for themselves in reduced operational costs.

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Solar Power To Solve Sticky Sewage Sludge Problem

CleanTechnica

With support from your friendly neighborhood sewage treatment plant, concentrating solar power finally gets moment in sun.

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VW ID.4 Vs Ford Mustang Mach-E: The No Holds Barred, Full Tilt Boogie Road Test

CleanTechnica

Autoblog has done a side by side comparison between the ID.4 and the Mach-E. You decide who the winner is.

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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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Helping To Design More Sustainable Electric Vehicle Motors

CleanTechnica

Pitt Researchers Partner with Powdermet Inc. to Design More Sustainable Electric Machines for the Department of Energy.

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Flow Batteries Are An Area Of Strong Innovation & Opportunity

CleanTechnica

Flow battery characteristics typically mean that they are most cost effective at grid or major facility scales of storage.

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Tess Goes To The Mechanic, & The EV Transition Gets Personal

CleanTechnica

Tim has looked after my two Hyundais and my classic Wolseley for the past 20 years. He has taken care of everything from regular servicing to rescuing me from the mountain when my automatic gearbox stopped working halfway up Cunningham’s Gap on the way to Warwick. I respect him and trust him. When I got […].