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This Coca-Cola bottler will capture carbon dioxide to put the fizz in its drinks

GreenBiz

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages is building a “quadgeneration” system to generate electricity, run heating and cooling processes, and recover carbon dioxide to carbonate beverages.

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At Long Last, the Vision of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition Is Realized

NRDC onEarth

The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is not only extremely popular but its protections are long overdue.

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HVAC Energy Efficiency: 5 Tips to Improve Your Air Conditioner’s Performance and Lifespan

U.S. Green Technology

In our pursuit of better energy management and environmental responsibility, we’ve gathered valuable insights into optimizing the functionality of air conditioners. A well-performing air conditioner blends convenience, effectiveness, and eco-consciousness seamlessly. Let’s learn some helpful tips that will improve how you understand your HVAC system and also make it work better and last longer.

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Huge wind turbine parts arrive at port for delivery to Golden Plains

Renew Economy

First of 21 shiploads of turbine parts for the massive Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria have been unloaded at Geelong Port, ready for delivery. The post Huge wind turbine parts arrive at port for delivery to Golden Plains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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How to keep your passion burning with a career in ESG

GreenBiz

Burnout is real and even more intense when climate change is your job. Here are 5 ways to keep your head on straight while trying to solve the world's biggest problem.

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At Long Last, the Vison of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition Is Realized

NRDC onEarth

The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is not only extremely popular but its protections are long overdue.

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USA | Strategic Offshore Wind implementation

Energy Central

USA | Strategic Offshore Wind implementation This week has seen progress stateside in Maine, and next up is the Gulf of Mexico and interesting sectoral combinations in the wake of project Tampen coming online. [link] Offshore Wind and Hydrogen.

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3 strategies for embedding product circularity from the start

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Product manufacturers can make circularity a reality for their company with circularity readiness. Here are early-stage strategies to consider.

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NOAA’s Proposed Seafood Rule: Too Weak to Improve Conditions

NRDC onEarth

NOAA’s Proposed Rule excludes protections for species at high-risk of illegal fishing & fails to help address human rights violations in the seafood industry.

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German Chancellor visits Eavor’s Geretsried geothermal site

ThinkGeoEnergy

In a tremendous show of political support, Chancellor Olaf Scholz personally led a visit to the site of the geothermal project of Eavor Erdwärme Geretsried GmbH (Eavor Geretsried) in Geretsried, Germany. Joining the Chancellor in this visit were Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder, and Bavarian Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger.

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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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Now’s the time for virtual power plants to shine

Smart Energy International

In the face of renewables’ intermittency issues, which result in fossil fuels remaining a prominent power source, virtual power plants, writes Nostromo Energy CEO Yoram Ashery, might provide the answer we’ve been looking for. Over the past few decades, commercial buildings have become a focal point in the fight to minimise the global carbon footprint because they consume a lot of energy due to the increased use of cooling, heating, ventilation systems, lighting and computers.

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Should you electrify your heavy-duty truck? Ask these 5 questions

GreenBiz

Electrification isn’t the only way to decarbonize transportation and logistics, but the path your company chooses to take will depend on these factors.

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CARB Must Reform LCFS Program to Meet Climate Goals

NRDC onEarth

CARB's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard currently funnels millions of dollars a year to polluting fuels. Will CARB listen to the community voices calling for change ?

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ThermaPrime completes drilling program for PGPC geothermal fields, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

ThermaPrime Drilling Corporation (ThermaPrime) has successfully completed a drilling program in the geothermal projects of the Philippine Geothermal Production Company, Inc (PGPC). The program included the drilling of 12 production wells and 3 multilateral injection wells, as well as 10 work-over jobs over a period of four years. ThermaPrime is a drilling services contracting company specializing in geothermal wells and related services.

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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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In Maui, investing in future resilience and community stewardship after the fires

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 24 – From firefighting resources to land use planning to water rights to electric grid maintenance to community finance, this month’s. The post In Maui, investing in future resilience and community stewardship after the fires appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Inside Fidelity International’s fund to invest in biodiversity

GreenBiz

The head of Fidelity International’s portfolio of climate and biodiversity funds, Velislava Dimitrova, addresses the rise of nature-related investments.

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More than 150,000 people called on Biden Administration to Fully Restore Endangered Species Act

NRDC onEarth

Public comment period concludes for proposed rulemakings on how Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service protect species and habitats

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As Canada Burns, Danielle Smith Does Event with Activist Who Says Climate ‘Not a Crisis’

DeSmogBlog

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is headlining an oil and gas industry event this week alongside a U.S. “fossil fuels advocate” named Alex Epstein who says that human-caused climate change is “not a crisis” and that rising global temperatures are only “a minor variable” in out-of-control wildfires. Epstein and Smith are both speaking at the Energy Business Forum , part of a conference hosted by the Canadian Energy Executive Association.

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The Week in Impact Investing: How anti-ESG ends

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Beyond the backlash. The culture wars are far from over, but on at least one battlefront the politicians. The post The Week in Impact Investing: How anti-ESG ends appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Decades of messages about recycling have crowded out better ways to manage waste

GreenBiz

Wrong choices are typical in the confusing US recycling system, and recycling itself is often a poor choice among other options.

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What Are Heat Pump Air Conditioners?

NRDC onEarth

They’re way more efficient and cost-effective than standard ACs. Even better, they double as carbon-slashing heating systems.

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Going Bananas Over Release of Fukushima Wastewater

Energy Central

Going Bananas Over Release of Fukushima Wastewater into the Ocean Today (08/24/23) Japan is starting the controlled release of wastewater that is slightly radioactive from the Fukushima nuclear site into the Pacific ocean. Given the usual news media hysteria about such events, I offer for your reading pleasure the “banana equivalent dose.” Based on the numbers reported by.

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Retailers Sustainability Data: Future and Responsible

Green Living Guy

Composable Systems: Unlocking Sustainability Retailers Data Vital to this effort is the creation of data-led composable architecture. Data also led by retailers’ technology teams. Composable systems offer three important benefits: Targeted, Strategic Actions for Sustainable Growth To address customer expectations for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices, retailers must proceed with targeted, strategic actions that […] The post Retailers Sustainability Data: Future and Res

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11 training resources to bolster your climate and net-zero strategy

GreenBiz

Empower your organization to meet its climate goals by learning how to develop a strategy based on best practices and science.

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Uranium Mining Protections Needed Across the West

NRDC onEarth

The Biden administration needs to protect communities and water supplies across the West from the dangers of uranium mining.

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Thyssenkrupp Uhde announces Floating Ammonia plant Collaboration

Energy Central

Thyssenkrupp Uhde will support the project OFFSET consortium to develop an industrial scale floating green hydrogen and ammonia plant. In March 2023, SwitcH2 B.V. announced it had received Approval in Principle from DNV on its design principles for an FPSO which will produce ammonia offshore solely from renewable sources of energy. As part of the Approval in Principle process, BWO developed.

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Kia EV5: Sustainable Mobility for the Compact SUV Sector

Green Living Guy

Exterior Design: A Harmonious Blend of Nature and Modernity The Kia EV5 draws inspiration from the brand’s acclaimed ‘Opposites United’ design philosophy. All which seeks to capture the co-existence of nature and modernity. The result is a compact SUV that stands out from the crowd. That’s with its confident and bold presence.

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3 Pivotal Advances That Will Unlock Supply Chain Decarbonization

GreenBiz

Date/Time: September 28, 2023 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) With over 80 percent of emissions coming from outside a company’s direct operations (i.e. in the value chain) in most industries, the path to net zero is simply not achievable without decarbonizing the supply chain. Most companies have been on the ‘onramp’ toward this immense and complex challenge, setting targets, publishing net zero commitments, and using predictive analytics and models to estimate the current state.

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Colorado makes Buildings More Livable, Less Polluting

NRDC onEarth

With a new Building Performance Standard policy, Colorado is leading the nation with clean, healthy buildings.

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New potential geothermal sites identified in Hawaii

ThinkGeoEnergy

A Geothermal Permitted Interaction Group (PIG) commissioned by the Hawaiian Homes Commission has identified two sites in Hawai’i Island that have potential geothermal activity that can be harnessed for viable electricity generation. The two sites are the Humu’ula area on Maunakea and Upper Kawaihae on Kohala, with Humu’ula being more accessible by roadway.

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4 Solar Battery Sales Tips 

Mosaic

Solar battery storage sales are gaining momentum. According to Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), nearly 30% of all new solar systems will be paired with storage by 2027 — compared to under 10% in 2022. And in California alone, Wood Mackenzie projects that solar battery projects will rise from 11% today to over 80% by 2027. Policy changes and homeowners’ growing desire for energy resiliency are two factors increasing battery storage sales.

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3 ways eBay, Pepsi are addressing Scope 3 transport emissions

GreenBiz

These companies engage third-party fleet companies, but that doesn’t mean they are leaving transportation decarbonization to their suppliers.

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Partnering with Beavers to Adapt to Climate Change

NRDC onEarth

Beavers and their habitat increase ecosystem health and help people and wildlife adapt to a warmer planet.

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UNIDO holds geothermal training programme for Eastern African countries

ThinkGeoEnergy

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) concluded a capacity-building programme for experts and policymakers in geothermal development from Eastern African countries, namely Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Uganda (targeted countries). The capacity building program was organized under the UNIDO global programme “Generating energy capacity from geothermal power generation and its related technologies for sustainable development” (Geot