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Combating climate change: A study of embodied carbon

GreenBiz

A retrospective study of Portland’s iconic Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building sheds light on how the design and construction industry can do more to combat global warming.

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Australia's climate policy ranks last out of 60 countries

Inhabitat - Innovation

Australia's policies in response to climate change have been ranked last according to an assessment released during the COP26 global summit in Glasgow. The Climate Change Performance Index ranked 60 countries that contribute up to 92% of global CO2 emissions. Among the countries ranked, Australia ranked 54 in energy use, 52 in renewable energy, and even took the absolute lowest spot in climate policy.

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Solar Power Events rebrands SPI, ESI, and Smart Energy Week as RE+

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This name change reflects years of on-going diversification of Solar Power International (SPI), as the event shifted to accommodate emerging trends and complementary markets, including energy storage, microgrids and Internet of Things (IoT), wind energy, hydrogen and fuel cells, and electric vehicles.

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Eco-friendly Ways to Build a Home Suitable for Your Climate

U.S. Green Technology

Traditionally, the construction industry has been one of the most wasteful industries worldwide. Making up for 50% of trash in landfills and 40% of power use worldwide, it is, simply put, a very unsustainable industry. In response to this, the construction industry and homeowners alike are putting more effort into becoming environmentally friendly. If you.

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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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The ESG landscape is changing — it’s time to evolve

GreenBiz

Sponsored: With new insights that break the short-term view of the quarterly reporting cycle, sustainability will be as fundamental as technology in shaping a business’s success.

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Amazon deforestation still high despite Brazil's COP26 pledge

Inhabitat - Innovation

Last week at COP26 in Glasgow, 100 countries, including Brazil, pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030. However, recent figures for October show that Brazil is nowhere near protecting the Amazon rainforest. In fact, the latest numbers are the second most appalling since scientists began measuring deforestation.

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5 Ways to Use Employee Engagement and Sustainability to Motivate a Return to the Office

Green Business Bureau

Employee Engagement and Sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed our lives and what we deem as necessary. Within a matter of months, we have quickly realized just how much of our jobs can actually be carried out online and at home. For many businesses, a remote workforce is the new norm. But for those returning to work, the office can be a thriving think tank rather than just a stale cohort of cubicles.

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How steel is decarbonizing

GreenBiz

Two new international agreements are taking aim at one of the most challenging sectors to decarbonize.

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Lakeview Community turns coal power plant into an eco city

Inhabitat - Innovation

Water channel restoration is only one of the plans underway to turn a former coal power plant into Canada's most sustainable 15-minute community in Mississauga. Lakeview Community Partners Limited, the developer behind Lakeview Village, is now restoring Serson Creek, an underground buried waterway that runs through the community.

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DEPCOM’s 3R Business Expands, Helping to Restore Power Fast After Natural Disasters

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DEPCOM Power, expands its restoration and repowering services to minimize losses, boost performance of utility PV assets. DEPCOM's 3R business helps restore power after natural disasters. In a recent project, DEPCOM's equipment salvage and restoration efforts saved $6.5 million for the owner of a 92-MW flooded plant in the Southeast.

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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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Sustainability Performance Management: How to Measure Sustainability When Your Workforce Is Remote

Green Business Bureau

Becoming a sustainable business can seem complicated if all or the majority of your workforce is remote. But this shouldn’t deter you from taking the leap. Even if your company operates in different corners of the world, your employees can collectively oversee sustainability performance management from the comfort of their home offices. Here are best practices for companies with remote workers to follow when pursuing sustainability.

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Is it ethical to farm insects for food?

GreenBiz

More people are eating bugs and scientists agree that insects can't feel pain the same way mammals do. But should we be relying on them as sustainable protein source?

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We need to talk about farming, agriculture and emissions

Inhabitat - Innovation

Many plant-based activists claim that leaders at COP26 aren’t paying enough attention to methane emissions from agriculture. They say that a global change in diet toward veganism could help slow climate change.

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Top Tips for Eco-Friendly Travel in 2022

U.S. Green Technology

Apart from developing sustainable habits at home, it’s also important to consider taking the same idea into travelling. According to the United Nations, international travel is expanding like never before, but unfortunately, this comes at an enormous social and environmental cost. When thinking about sustainable travelling and reducing our individual carbon footprints, flying less often.

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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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Former steel mill covered in solar panels shines new light on Pittsburgh

Solar Power World

Abandoned steel mills are a common sight in the Rust Belt region. Communities formed around these factories as the steel industry boomed, employing thousands of people at a time, but many suffered economic collapse and began shuttering in the 1970s. Contractor’s Corner by Solar Power World · The Case for Solar: Covering rust with solar… The post Former steel mill covered in solar panels shines new light on Pittsburgh appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Want to fix the climate? Fix the economy

GreenBiz

As COP26 concludes, there’s a unique window to shape our future climate.

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New facility to create 400,000 pounds of lab-grown meat a year

Inhabitat - Innovation

Goodbye slaughterhouses, hello humane future. UPSIDE Foods just opened a major production facility to produce lab-grown meat.

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Sustainable Living: 6 Reasons Smart Home is a Greener Home

U.S. Green Technology

These days, technological advancements make it easy for us to manage our homes. From cooking to cleaning, there is a gadget or two that makes it easy to do our house chores. No wonder there is an increasing number of innovative home features being developed. What is a Smart Home? The simplest way to describe. The post Sustainable Living: 6 Reasons Smart Home is a Greener Home appeared first on U.S.

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Renewables could meet US energy needs by 2035, study finds

Renewable Energy World

The US could meet its current electricity needs using low-carbon sources by 2035 if the progress made in the past decade continues, according to a new study. The new study, released by the Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, states that the US needs to continue to expand its portfolio of renewables (wind, solar, geothermal) by 15% per annum, to achieve the 2035 milestone.

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How to Communicate With Consumers About Chemical Recycling Solutions

GreenBiz

Consumers around the globe are craving more sustainable products, and brands are struggling to figure out how to deliver on their recycled content goals. Chemical recycling, also known as advanced or molecular recycling, will be a crucial part of the solution set for brands to meet plastics and packaging goals.

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Environment-friendly Chiropractic Practice: Ways To Do This

Green Living Guy

Biologically speaking, a musculoskeletal system comprises bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, and joints. It’s responsible for supporting an individual’s body, allowing it to move and prevent any infection or ailments in the organs. When a person starts experiencing complications in their musculoskeletal system, they require performing major steps for their spine care.

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4 Ways to Design Safe Streets for Cyclists

The City Fix

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, cycling has become an even more popular, resilient and reliable travel option, and pop-up bike lanes have been increasingly common in major cities around the globe. Between March and July 2020, 394 cities, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The NEW BSL Battery BOX 48V LifePo4 Solar Battery Storage 5.12-30.7kWh

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The new BSL Battery BOX 48V LiFePo4 solar battery storage system is based on a new concept designed to meet a wider range of usage scenarios.

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Science Based Targets initiative calls on private equity firms to set climate goals

GreenBiz

Six leading private equity firms sign up to the Science Based Targets initiative, as the group issues new guidance to help the sector decarbonize.

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5 Ways to Prevent Neighborhood Sewage Pollution

Green Living Guy

Global eco-consciousness is prompting people to search for ways to shrink their carbon footprints and reduce surface-level impacts. Adopting sustainability enhancing techniques and technology is about more than improving one’s personal effects, though. It is about conserving the worldwide ecosystem. Here are five ways to prevent neighborhood sewage pollution and increase environmental conservation.

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Los Angeles DOT to install solar and storage microgrid to power 100 Proterra electric buses

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The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has won a $6-million grant from the California Energy Commission to install an EV fleet charging system that will be powered by a microgrid incorporating solar panels and storage. Earlier this year, Proterra delivered its 25th ZX5 battery-electric transit bus to LADOT in support of the agency’s transition to a fully electric fleet.

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More Equal Cities Can Help Bring Global Climate Goals Within Reach

The City Fix

While negotiations rage on, many world leaders have already left COP26 in Glasgow having said their piece about a low-carbon future for their country. No one can accuse them of being short on vision. But one thing is increasingly clear. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Mark Carney’s $130 trillion funding for net zero: Is he good for it?

GreenBiz

As a headline, it is big, splashy and promising: a coalition full of financial giants pledges a colossal sum to address climate change. But can that pledge be counted on?

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Understanding and Improving Your Energy Efficiency

Green Living Guy

The energy efficiency of everyday items has been improving steadily for the last few decades and continues to be an essential part of cultural conversations. To determine how efficient your home electrical system is, you first need to understand what it means to be efficient and which factors affect home power consumption. You can then […]. The post Understanding and Improving Your Energy Efficiency appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Austin’s CapMetro orders 30 electric buses, plus EVSE, from New Flyer

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Austin’s Capital Metro Transportation Authority has ordered 26 of New Flyer’s Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot electric transit buses, and four Xcelsior CHARGE NG sixty-foot buses. The five-year contract includes options to purchase up to 126 forty-foot and up to 15 sixty-foot battery-electric buses, and up to 427 chargers (197 depot plug-in chargers, 197 depot overhead chargers, and 33 en-route chargers).

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Planet to Acquire VanderSat to Deliver Advanced Agriculture Data Products to Customers

Planet Pulse

We are excited to announce that Planet has entered into an agreement t o acquire VanderSat , a leading provider of advanced earth data and analytics. Vandersat’s innovative products help customers better measure and understand water management and crop health in major markets. Planet intends to leverage VanderSat’s technologies and products in further pursuit of bringing to market next-generation solutions that combine the best of commercial and public satellite data to provide clear and actiona

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Decarbonizing heavy-duty transportation: Is hydrogen the answer?

GreenBiz

Sponsored: While the world is well on its way to making advancements in electric vehicle technology, there’s one key piece of the decarbonization effort still left to tackle: heavy-duty vehicles.

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How to Safeguard Yourself in the Woods

Green Living Guy

Being safe in the wilderness – Why? Going out for an adventure in the wilderness, and experiencing our natural world first hand, can be one of the best experiences in life. Yet, the great outdoors is a very dangerous place for the inexperienced, and you need to be prepared before you head out to the […]. The post How to Safeguard Yourself in the Woods appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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European shipping company orders 100 Volvo FM Electric trucks

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DFDS, a shipping and logistics firm based in Northern Europe, has placed an order with Volvo Trucks for 100 Volvo FM Electric trucks. The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks. Deliveries of the trucks will start in the fourth quarter of 2022 and continue throughout 2023. Volvo Financial Services will provide a financing solution.