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Active commuting is best?

Envirotec Magazine

New research seems to find that people who commute by car can be subject to higher levels of harmful pollutants than those who walk or cycle to work. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Leicester in partnership with Leicester City Council , is published in the Journal of Transport & Health. The researchers found that in-cabin levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were higher for weekday morning commuters travelling by car, compared to their counterparts travelling by bike or

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. This guide, useful for homeowners, designers, contractors and builders alike, highlights important green building materials to consider and suggests credible, certified sustainable brands to help you build a truly sustainable home.

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Jeep unveils its first three battery-electric SUVs

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The Jeep Recon is square, the ‘Wagoneer S’ is a sleek, luxurious midsize SUV, and the tiny Avenger will only be sold in Europe. The legendary U.S. Jeep brand announced it will sell four separate battery-electric SUVs in various markets by the end of 2025—three of which were unveiled this morning in an online presentation and event it called “Jeep 4xe Day.”.

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What the world can learn from Fiji's national climate strategy

GreenBiz

Fiji's plans stand out for being based on how much money it will need to meet climate goals.

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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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Aerosol recycling initiative launched by trade group

Envirotec Magazine

Alupro, the aluminium packaging recycling organisation, has launched the UK Aerosol Recycling Initiative, which it says “will help increase the awareness and uptake of aerosol recycling among the public and drive increased recycling rates across the UK” The initiative brings together working group partners from across the value chain including Ball Aerosol Packaging, the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA), Ecosurety, a packaging compliance scheme, The Metals Processing

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EV Charging Infrastructure Market Size to Expand Around USD 217.47 Billion by 2030

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According to Latest Report Study, the global electric vehicle charging infrastructure market size is predicted to expand around USD 217.47 billion by 2030 with a CAGR of 34.49% from 2022 and 2030.

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Green is good: The ESG talent war in private equity

GreenBiz

ESG roles are opening at an increasing clip at private equity firms both small and large. What’s behind the trend, and how is private equity skilling and staffing up to meet the moment?

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IMechE recommends rethink of UK waste policy

Envirotec Magazine

A radical rethink of recycling and waste policy is required to put the UK on a more sustainable path, according to a new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). “Waste as a Resource: A sustainable Way Forward” advocates an approach that prioritises waste streams according to their usefulness to materials and emissions reduction, and to their utility to the wider energy system.

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All-Electric bZ4X Production Model Announced in Japan

Green Living Guy

Contribution to SDGs based on the concept of “home planet” As a leader in electrification, Toyota’s introduction of bZ4X represents the first of a global series of battery-electric vehicles to be introduced under the global “Toyota bZ” brand umbrella. Once the rubber hits the road, bZ4X will have a manufacturer-estimated range of up to 250 miles for XLE front-wheel drive models.

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Stora Enso and Northvolt partner to develop wood-based batteries

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Just as you’ve always suspected, the powers that be have been keeping a cheap miracle technology from us—batteries can be made not from scarce and expensive minerals, but from wood! Well, not exactly. But in fact, lignin, a plant-derived polymer, is a renewable source of carbon, and two European firms have launched a project that aims to use lignin-based hard carbon produced from Nordic forest wood as an anode material.

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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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The compelling case for being ‘climate positive by design’

GreenBiz

Designing climate positive societies, workplaces and widgets is the missing element in climate models and, by consequence, climate action.

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Power-thrifty SAFs perform

Envirotec Magazine

Premier Tech Water and Environment has enhanced its range of Rewatec SAF sewage treatment plants to combine energy efficiency with an exceptionally high wastewater treatment performance. As part of the redesign, the Rewatec SAF now features an internal baffle in the primary chamber to assist with the removal of solids and organics, and to prevent potential blockages downstream.

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South Australia wind farms lift Australia to record monthly output in August

Renew Economy

Four wind farms in South Australia lead country to record monthly wind output in August. The post South Australia wind farms lift Australia to record monthly output in August appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Polestar electric roadster concept to enter production as Polestar 6

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In March, Polestar (Nasdaq: PSNY) revealed an electric roadster concept called the O?. Now the company has confirmed that a production version is expected to launch in 2026 as the Polestar 6 electric performance roadster. The hard-top convertible will be built on Polestar’s bespoke bonded aluminum platform. Developed in-house, it will feature an 800-volt architecture.

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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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How can we design happy and healthy buildings fit for future generations?

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Lone explores the benefits of a holistic approach to sustainable design, and how we can build a more sustainable future.

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Comment: “Green ammonia is going to be the fossil-free ‘crude’ of the hydrogen fuel economy”

Envirotec Magazine

Collin Hamilton, COO and Chief Engineer at Verano Energy, one of the largest renewables independent power producers (IPP) in Latin America, shares his vision of the key role that ammonia is going to play in “the green hydrogen revolution” The US-born engineer’s firm is developing over 30GW of hydrogen projects in Chile and Peru. Hydrogen has the potential to decarbonize a wide range of heavy industries including energy, chemicals, steel and cement, which means demand is going t

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German government proposes limited extension of “high risk” nuclear

Renew Economy

German economy and climate minister says tweak to nuclear exit law will only entail a limited extension until spring next year, due to the technology's risks. The post German government proposes limited extension of “high risk” nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Looking closer at filter, resonant and snubber capacitors in EVs (Whitepaper)

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Sponsored by Knowles Precision Devices. Many power electronics today are being designed for use in high-temperature, high-voltage environments, such as inside electric vehicles. However, size, weight, and power (SWaP) are also key factors driving electronic product development. These conflicting design criteria are an issue for many electrical engineers because space is not available to simply add a cooling system, as this will add weight and increase the product’s overall footprint.

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Dolly told us to sing in the sunshine, and Sunfolding listened

GreenBiz

In Part 2 of the WWDPD series, we take a deeper look at how California-based Sunfolding is changing the solar panel game.

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Bedding solution boosts poultry farming sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

New product aims to meet one quarter of the UK demand by using waste streams from the paper industry. Resource management company Veolia says it is extending sustainability for the farming industry with the introduction of a new poultry bedding solution for farmers. The solution uses waste streams from the paper industry to produce Agribed , a bedding material specifically developed to support the welfare of chickens and turkeys.

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Solar power saved Europe €29 billion in this summer’s energy crisis

Renew Economy

New analysis reveals record levels of solar across the EU over summer avoided the need for 20bn cubic metres of gas, and the cost to import it. The post Solar power saved Europe €29 billion in this summer’s energy crisis appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenPower’s new West Virginia factory could produce 600 electric school buses per year

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GreenPower Motor Company , a manufacturer of electric medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, has cut the ribbon at its new South Charleston, West Virginia manufacturing facility. The facility, which is home to the company’s electric school bus manufacturing operations east of the Mississippi River, has been expanded by an additional 80,000 square feet. It is expected to begin operations in September, and by next year it will have a production capacity of up to 150 electric school buses per quarter.

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How big is the EV opportunity?

GreenBiz

By 2050, electrification across all sectors of the U.S. economy could increase electricity consumption by as much as 38 percent.

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Seeking clarity

Envirotec Magazine

Late August saw the release of “Air Quality and Health In Cities”, the latest edition of The State of Global Air report, produced annually by the US Health Effects Institute. It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. Standout findings this year include a clearer picture of PM2.5 and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers

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Researchers pluck green hydrogen from the air, without any need for liquid water

Renew Economy

Australian and international researchers have demonstrated a way to produce renewable hydrogen without the need to consume precious drinking water. The post Researchers pluck green hydrogen from the air, without any need for liquid water appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Nissan exec: EV batteries lasting longer than predicted

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If you use social media, you probably see a never-ending stream of “articles” insisting that EV batteries wear out in a few years, making the cars worthless, that they can’t be recycled, they’re full of poisonous chemicals, yada yada yada. That would be news to Nissan’s UK Marketing Director Nic Thomas. “Almost all of the [EV] batteries we’ve ever made are still in cars, and we’ve been selling electric cars for 12 years,” he recently told Forbes.

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Vattenfall and electric bike firm Cake team on 'fossil-free' motorcycle

GreenBiz

New 'fossil-free' bike will save around 1.2 metric tons of CO2 in the construction process, showcasing the latest in zero carbon production techniques.

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How will the economic downturn affect PRN prices?

Envirotec Magazine

Joseph Doherty, Managing Director of waste management services firm Re-Gen Waste, believes that the PRN prices will be affected by the cost of living crisis. The graph below shows the amount of packaging placed on the UK market reported by registered packaging producers since the early days of the packaging waste regulation. Figure 1: Packaging placed on the market.

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Carbon Capture: The Fossil Fuel Industry and Government Panacea

Energy Central

The International Energy Agency estimates that carbon capture technology's contribution to CO2 emissions reduction will fulfil 15% of the total needed to keep mean temperatures from rising beyond 1.5 Celsius. Yet the U.S. and other governments are throwing billions in terms of tax credits and subsidies to encourage new carbon capture projects. Wouldn't the money be better spent on.

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Bollinger Motors reveals B4 commercial electric truck

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Bollinger Motors ’ new B4 is a Class 4 all-electric fleet truck that features a cab-forward design. It’s designed to offer maximum cargo volume, accommodate unlimited adaptation, and prioritize safety. “The cab-forward design is a radical change from our previous concepts,” says founder and CEO Robert Bollinger. “And that’s on purpose. We listened to our commercial customers and developed what they need for ultimate efficiency.”.

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Where was Big Tech on historic climate legislation? (The answer might surprise you)

GreenBiz

Big Tech companies should offer strong support of bold climate policy — instead of following the lead of the trade associations that represent them.

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Sensing evolution

Envirotec Magazine

Last month we looked at global sensors leader Alphasense and their work within the Gas Safety sector. This month we take a closer look at the steps they are taking to support the global drive to improve air quality. As global awareness of the impact of poor air quality grows, so too does the demand for monitoring. In September 2021, the WHO noticeably reduced its yearly average PM (Particulate Matter) guideline values to 5 µg/m3, and in March, the UK government announced a consultation on new ta

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Paying billions in subsidies to fossil fuel industry makes absolutely no economic sense

Renew Economy

Subsidies serve an important function, but it makes absolutely no economic sense to subsidise things a government is, or should be, trying to discourage. The post Paying billions in subsidies to fossil fuel industry makes absolutely no economic sense appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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LOTTE Group to build cathode foil factory in Elizabethtown, Kentucky

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LOTTE Aluminium and LOTTE Chemical, subsidiaries of a giant South Korean conglomerate, plan to invest some $239 million to establish an aluminum foil manufacturing operation in Hardin County, Kentucky. We’re not talking about the kind of foil you use to wrap leftover pizza, but rather cathode foil, a type of ultra-thin aluminum foil that is a core material used in EV batteries.

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