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5 things you should know about green hydrogen

GreenBiz

Plug Power has a message for companies building out clean fleet strategies: Don’t ignore green hydrogen, a fuel that doesn’t emit any carbon dioxide when it's used to power fuel cells.

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Unique turtle bungalow encourages ecotourism in Thailand

Inhabitat - Innovation

Turtle Bay weaves Thailand's lush landscape with a quite literally green design, creating a cluster of cozy turtle shell-shaped structures. Inspired by the existing natural context of jungle trees, expansive lotus ponds and wild peacocks, a mixed-use ecotourism destination was formed.

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Follow four steps for successful AD plant design

Envirotec Magazine

Steven Cotterill is a 3D CAD Designer with bioenergy expert Anaergia UK. From developing a small-scale on-farm digester to a large biomethane facility, embarking on a new anaerobic digestion project can be a daunting prospect. A comprehensive design phase to determine the most successful layout for a site can reduce the risk, ensuring your plant remains profitable for years to come.

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What the Frack Is Happening With Natural Gas Prices?

GreenTechMedia

At the beginning of the pandemic, energy prices crashed. We did an episode of this show trying to figure out how oil prices fell to negative $40 per barrel. Times have changed. Oil is up over $100/barrel. But far more acute is what’s happening with natural gas, particularly in Europe and Asia. In the US, natural gas prices have doubled in the last year.

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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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Procurement’s carbon transparency problem

GreenBiz

Sustainable procurement is no longer a corporate goal, but a global one; and carbon transparency is a crucial step towards saving the planet and people that business serves.

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Plastic will destroy us in nine years

Inhabitat - Innovation

While most of us have been focusing on goals related to decreasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, a subset of scientists have been eying another villain. Now word from the Plastic Health Summit 2021 is that we have nine years to save the world from irreparable plastic-wrought damage.

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4 Ways to Provide In-House Sustainability Training for Employees

Green Business Bureau

Sustainability training for employees. So you want to train your employees on sustainability but not spend money on sustainability training courses, such as those given at The Green Office Academy , or bring in outside expertise, like Ensight Consulting , for consulting or workshops. Well, never fear – there are ways to accomplish sustainability training effectively and inexpensively.

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Turning the tide on seaweed aquaculture

GreenBiz

For businesses, particularly CPG companies hoping to generate multiple sustainability benefits from their investments, look no further than seaweed.

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Microplastics found in the bloodstreams of cows and pigs

Inhabitat - Innovation

The meat you buy in the store may be contaminated with microplastics. A recent study by Free University of Amsterdam found microplastics in the bloodstreams of pigs and cows for the first time. The findings have sparked questions over public health, with experts expressing fears over contaminants possibly affecting the entire food chain.

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NABCEP and IREC Streamline Industry Certification for Veterans

altenergymag

The Veterans Pathways were developed under the Solar Ready Vets Network, a national solar workforce development initiative led by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) that connects transitioning service members and veterans with training, career development resources, and jobs.

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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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8 Steps to Green Business Certification With Little Monetary Investment

Green Business Bureau

Becoming a Certified Green Business. Congratulations on starting your green business journey and for considering making your organization a green certified one. A verified certification is a major step towards demonstrating your commitment to sustainability to your employees and customers who care about protecting the environment and care about what companies they engage with.

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The path to more sustainable shopping online

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Over 200,000 products have been certified as more sustainable through Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly program and the company is seeking to partner with more brands.

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Nike playground is made of 20,000 upcycled sneakers

Inhabitat - Innovation

Legendary sports company Nike has dominated the headlines for its dedication to a zero carbon and zero waste future. One project at a time, they have drawn attention to sustainable actions and corporate responsibility when it comes to protecting the environment.

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3 Home Upgrades that Will Make Your Property More Sustainable

Green Living Guy

What’s your carbon footprint? Each homeowner’s footprint is calculated by dividing the amount of energy used by the number of people in the house. In the UK, 40% of emissions come from households, and homes in the US emit 48 tonnes of CO2 every year. To reduce our carbon footprint, current and future homeowners need […]. The post 3 Home Upgrades that Will Make Your Property More Sustainable appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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Environmental Awareness Days In November

Green Business Bureau

It’s the beginning of the holiday season. Why not get into the spirit by celebrating one or all of these environmental awareness days in November! America Recycles Day – November 15th. The twenty-fifth annual America Recycles Day is being held on Monday, November 15th, in an effort to recognize the importance and impact of recycling and encourage communities and businesses to be more conscious about their waste management.

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Why supply chain disruptions may slow down clean energy deployments

GreenBiz

A confluence of factors is making construction materials, shipping costs and components more expensive. At the same time, renewable energy demand is running high.

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60% of Americans blame fossil fuel companies for climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

A recent poll found that 60% of Americans believe gas and oil companies are to blame for the climate crisis. The poll, commissioned by The Guardian, Vice News and Covering Climate Now, sought Americans' views on the climate issue. The poll asked Americans from different social, political and ethnic groups their opinion on specific climate issues.

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Green and Cruelty-free Ways to Stay Warmer This Winter

Green Living Guy

Since 40% of the makeup of most landfills in the U.S. consists of discarded clothing, if you want to save the environment, you should look into wearing long-lasting materials that eventually biodegrade when their useful life is over. If you also care about cruelty to animals, this limits your choices further. However, always going for the […].

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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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Buffalo, New York to order up to 150 New Flyer electric buses

Charged

The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority of Buffalo, New York (NFTA-Metro) has issued a five-year contract to NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America, which includes a firm order for 10 Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty electric transit buses, along with an option to purchase up to 140 more. NFTA-Metro provides bus and rail transportation services in Erie and Niagara Counties in New York State, delivering over 24 million rides annually.

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Be a champion for sustainability impact, not optics

GreenBiz

Shopify's Sustainability Fund director outlines how to start making carbon removals part of your corporate strategy.

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These top companies are to blame for climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Guardian published an interesting opinion piece yesterday about who is really responsible for climate change. According to the progressive U.K. newspaper, the average person doesn’t need to feel so guilty about ruining the world.

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Understanding the Dangers of Poor Air Quality and How to Monitor It

Green Living Guy

Various factors contribute to air quality degradation, including industrialization, population growth, and the increased consumption of fossil fuels for energy production. These factors are exacerbated by climate change which makes them even more difficult to combat. As air quality continues to decline, the effects on human health will become more and more evident.

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This company is earning money with second-life Nissan LEAF batteries

Charged

Second-life EV batteries are being used in pilots around the world to demonstrate their suitability for a wide variety of stationary storage applications. California company B2U Storage Solutions is using repurposed Nissan LEAF batteries in a commercial operation. The company has been bidding into the California power market for over a year, and is earning some respectable revenue, thank you.

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How ESG is changing talent needs

GreenBiz

Companies are looking for a range of experts, from analysts to investment leaders, reporting whizzes to heads of ESG.

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Kalk anti-poaching e-bikes join the battle in the African bush

Inhabitat - Innovation

Transportation in the African bush requires some very specific features. Vehicles need to be durable, reliable and able to handle the diverse terrain. For park rangers responsible for catching and stopping animal poachers, the stakes are even higher. They need transportation that’s also quiet and environmentally friendly. CAKE, a Swedish electric bike company, has delivered on all accounts.

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How to Nourish your Children’s Minds with Healthy Meals

Green Living Guy

We know you love your children and want the best for them, but sometimes it’s a massive challenge, especially when it comes to getting them to eat healthily. There is just so much to do! Chores around the home, and having a job, plus trying to prepare those sumptuous meals and encouraging your little ones […]. The post How to Nourish your Children’s Minds with Healthy Meals appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Inaugural American Clean Power Week kicks off with celebration of the United States of Clean Energy

altenergymag

New national poll shows overwhelming support among voters for clean energy and its benefits to environment, jobs and the economy

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Tree planting 101: What corporations need to know

GreenBiz

Scores of companies throw their weight behind tree planting efforts. In an era of widespread wildfires, here’s how they can still make a difference.

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Renewable energy is growing too slow to stop climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new study published in Nature Energy shows that the growth rate for wind and solar power is lower than required to stop climate change. The study, conducted by the Chalmers University of Technology, Lund University in Sweden, and Central European University in Austria, has found that no country is moving fast enough to curb global warming from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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NADA partners with Chargeway to help dealers inform car buyers about EVs

Charged

Auto dealers are a well-known bottleneck for EV sales , but it’s not (entirely) because they’re a bunch of gas-loving Luddites. EVs are unfamiliar to most consumers, and it takes valuable time to explain them to shoppers. Most salespeople don’t have the needed product knowledge, and EV sales are such a small part of the market that there’s little incentive for them to learn.

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Protecting People & the Planet: How Two Retirees Are Going Green with Geothermal

Green Living Guy

Green energy, sustainability, and carbon footprints are just eco-friendly buzzwords until we make them personal. Like many people, Elaine Weir and Stephen Sherman valued sustainable living, but they struggled to find ways to align their values and actions. The couple experienced the pitfalls of pollution first-hand. While living in Westchester County, NY, their daughter developed asthma. […].

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What Microsoft’s new app says about the digitalization of sustainability

GreenBiz

The software giant is turning its homegrown systems for tracking and managing carbon emissions data into a new cloud service for its customers.

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Scientists discover parasite that eats and replaces fish tongues

Inhabitat - Innovation

Officials at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have discovered a strange parasite that eats a fish's tongue and takes its place. In a first-of-its-kind discovery, the officials found that the parasite not only eats a fish's tongue, but it replaces the organ and starts feasting on the mucus in its mouth.

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