GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal. Deonna Anderson. Tue, 03/16/2021 - 05:00. Scope 3 emissions are the hardest emissions for companies to address when setting goals. But often, they are the most emissions to take on. For Etsy, the e-commerce marketplace known for handmade items like jewelry, art and apparel, Scope 3 emissions make up 99 percent of the company's carbon footprint.

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Jim Conca

MARCH 16, 2021

PNNL scientists are developing unique properties of a solvent known as EEMPA to capture CO2 from flue gas emitted by fossil fuels, but that allow it to sidestep the energetically expensive demands incurred by traditional solvents. They also have found a way to sequester the CO2 when they capture it.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Demand Innovation 239

Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 16, 2021

Thanks to the Buy Nothing Project, neighbors can easily participate in a sharing economy while strengthening their community.

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altenergymag

MARCH 16, 2021

For the second year in a row, solar led all technologies in new electric-generating capacity added, accounting for 43%. According to Wood Mackenzie’s 10-year forecast, the U.S. solar industry will install a cumulative 324 GWdc of new capacity to reach a total of 419 GWdc over the next decade.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 16, 2021

An Icelandic startup has an intriguing solution to the emissions problem: turn carbon into stone.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Article Contributed By Gerelyn Terzo of Sharemoney. Back in 2019, actor Leonardo DiCaprio stated, “The lungs of the earth are in flames,” in reference to the fires that were blazing in the Amazon. Since that time, fires are still raging, arguably worse than they were two years ago. Given the pivotal role that the rainforest plays in Brazil, where 60% of the Amazon is located, most of the country has had enough and would like to see economic protection become a priority at all costs. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

German instruments firm GRIMM has released the EDM265, which provides real-time monitoring of particle number and particle size in addition to information on particle surface distribution and dust mass distribution. The EDM264 is presented as an optimal solution for both short- and long-term mobile measurements in outdoor areas and at production sites.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 16, 2021

The Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building pays homage to the 2011 tsunami in Japan.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

A unique curved barrier has been designed by researchers at Imperial College London, who also published findings in the peer-reviewed journal Cities & Health on how the structure can protect against air pollution. T he team has used airflow modelling techniques to study the effects of unique roadside structures to deflect particulates away from pedestrians.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 16, 2021

On Monday, citizens of Beijing woke up to an orange sky, with the air quality recorded as hazardous.

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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.

Transportation

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Structural renovation lining works have been delivered to thirteen sections of culvert in Leverington, Cambridgeshire, with seemingly minimal disruption. The work was carried out by IWJS , a subsidiary of M Group Services , on behalf of North Level District Internal Drainage Board (NLDIDB). The NLDIDB is an area of the Fens that is largely reliant on pumped drainage to evacuate surplus water from agricultural, industrial and urban properties, discharging to adjacent main rivers.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Louisiana has never been hard to pinpoint on a map — it’s the only state in the U.S. that looks like a giant boot. At least it did, before the ocean swallowed the carbon emissions belched out by industrializing nations and began to swell. Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land l

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Sewer and pipe renovation specialist CJ Kelly International recently assisted with a pipe cleaning project undertaken by drainage contractor Fastflow Drains. Tarmac and concrete deposits had to be removed from a pipeline serving a residence in Vicarage Gate, near Kensington. The pipeline in question comprised a cast iron drain which runs directly under the property through solid ground and concrete, making traditional open-cut replacement of the pipeline, out of the question.

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Charged

MARCH 16, 2021

Solar-powered cars, like flying cars, have long been a sci-fi staple, but thanks to ever-more-efficient PV panels, they could soon enter the realm of reality. Aptera says its upcoming EV will be able to incrementally charge from solar panels, and Hyundai/Kia has announced plans to add panels to certain models. Now the Dutch startup Lightyear, which has been working on a solar-equipped EV for a couple of years, has raised $48 million in a new funding round led by Zero Point Holding.

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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.

Sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

The Port of San Diego and eco-engineering company ECOncrete have launched a three-year pilot project on Harbor Island in the Bahamas to demonstrate a new variant of the firm’s interlocking COASTALOCK tide pool armour. Harbor Island is currently protected from storm flooding and erosion by a. riprap rock mound, seemingly offering very limited habitat value.

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altenergymag

MARCH 16, 2021

• This product – service, intended for projects of up to 12 MW, is the first ever complete kit comprising all equipment needed to build a photovoltaic tracking plant. • The package includes SF7 solar trackers and photovoltaic modules, as well as BoP systems and batteries for storage projects, amongst other devices.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

A gainst a backdrop of ever increasing flood risk for many UK properties – with an extra 1.2 million of them scheduled to achieve “at risk” status by 2050 – water management components firm Hydro International has renewed a stormwater management deal with Rehau , a firm active in the building services sector. Hydro’s Stormbloc® Optimum geocellular attenuation system provides SuDS (sustainable drainage systems) storage and infiltration in a modular storage system.

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Charged

MARCH 16, 2021

Infrastructure remains a potent factor in EV adoption—the first questions asked by the EV-curious almost always have to do with the availability of charging. Tesla understood this from the beginning, and its Supercharger network has proven to be one of the company’s biggest competitive advantages. Now Porsche has taken a page from the Book of Tesla, announcing plans for its own network of fast charging stations along the most important European highways.

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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?

Carbon

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Coal-fired, energy-from-waste (EfW) and steel plants use lime to remove sulphur dioxide (SO2) from their flue gas output, as do oil and gas refineries. This process requires pumps that can work with such highly corrosive material, as Wilfried Staijen, a mining and pump specialist with Bredel Hose Pumps, explains. Flue gas desulphurisation is mostly carried out using wet scrubbing methods.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 16, 2021

Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, is kicking off a bi-weekly column on the policies, The post Why pension funds and other Amazon investors are backing the workers in union battle appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

The asset management system can improve reliability and availability of key assets on site, says Rotork, and minimise unplanned downtime. Rotork has launched a programme of advanced analytics for the management of intelligent flow control assets. Intelligent Asset Management is a cloud-based asset management system for intelligent actuators and the flow control equipment they operate.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 16, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 16 – Small investors rushed in on the first day that new rules increased to $5 million the amount startups can. The post Retail investors demonstrate the power of the crowd appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with. Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd. In 2020, Shearwater Marine Services was awarded a contract to install protection for jetty piles at Ullapool Harbour in the Scottish Highlands, on behalf of The Ullapool Harbour Trust. As consulting engineers on the project, Wallace Stone specified the use of SeaShield Systems supplied by Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd to protect the jetty piles.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Air quality improved in 84% of all monitored countries due to Covid-19 related lockdowns in 2020, the report found. Some of the major improvements compared to the year 2019 were seen in Paris (-17%), London (-16%), Seoul (-16%), Delhi (-15%), Chicago (-13%) and Beijing (-11%).

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 16, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 16 — Lightyear is going to market with Lightyear One, a self-charging electric vehicle with built-in solar cells that was featured. The post Dutch solar electric car startup Lightyear raises $48 million appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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altenergymag

MARCH 16, 2021

Desertification is called the cancer of the earth, and it has become a global ecological problem, which has profoundly affected the balance of global ecosystems and seriously threatened the safety of human lives and property in the world. How to hold the blue sky and white clouds and explore new models of sand prevention and control, numerous large-scale photovoltaic power plants are entering the field of environmental sand control.

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Charged

MARCH 16, 2021

Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based energy management platform, has teamed up with smart charging provider FLO, a subsidiary of AddEnergie, to integrate utility demand response programs with FLO’s Home X5 residential Level 2 charging stations. Virtual Peaker can connect to any in-home smart device to allow utilities to run residential demand response programs.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 16, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 16 – Ankur Capital backs early-stage, high-impact tech companies in healthcare, financial services, education, agriculture and food. The Mumbai-based impact investor secured. The post Ankur Capital tops up early-stage impact tech fund in India appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

MARCH 16, 2021

Moscow is rapidly electrifying its municipal bus fleet. The Russian capital began replacing diesel buses with electric buses in 2018, and now operates some 600 e-buses on 42 routes. Over the next 4 years, the city plans to buy 2,675 more units, and authorities expect to have converted the entire fleet to electric drive by 2032. “Starting this year, we are going to buy the e-buses only,” said Moscow’s Deputy Mayor for Transport Maksim Liksutov.

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altenergymag

MARCH 16, 2021

JMV LPS Limited is introducing a spectacular maintenance free earthing solution to left all your worries of Earthing shelf life and Performance behind.

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Electricity 113

Charged

MARCH 16, 2021

The Spring 2021 sessions list for the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering is out now. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, conference topics will span the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection, wire and cable, EMI/EMC and more.

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altenergymag

MARCH 16, 2021

Global provider to tailor equipment and design to support agricultural land quality

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

You’ve probably heard of the “pipeline problem,” which stipulates that there aren’t enough diverse, qualified candidates for companies to hire women and people of color. Maybe it’s the first thing your team, board of directors, or investors said when faced with the task of improving your company’s diversity. Here’s the catch: the “pipeline problem” is a myth —and so are many other ideas surrounding diversity and inclusion (D&I) that people believe and perpetuate.

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