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Is wood the new concrete?

GreenBiz

Companies looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions are turning to mass timber as a climate and building solution.

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How data skills can amplify corporate action to save the planet

GreenBiz

It’s time to realize the commercial and environmental potential of machine learning and data skills.

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Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Needs A Quick Win For Nuclear

Jim Conca

Passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act last Monday had some nice things for nuclear energy. The overall Bill is a $1.2 trillion for everything from bridges and roads to the nation's broadband, water and energy systems. Nuclear got about $25 billion.

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California fires killed nearly 20 percent of the world's Sequoias

Inhabitat - Innovation

Wildfires in California over the past five years have claimed nearly 20% of the world's largest Sequoias. Frequent fires in the Sequoia National Park and the surrounding forests have claimed a third of groves in California.

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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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Laser scans show devastating impact of wet wipes on the Thames

Envirotec Magazine

River charity Thames21 has released data showing a mound created by wet wipes, which has grown to the size of two tennis courts and over a metre tall in the past six years. High-resolution sonar and laser scans of the riverbed of the Thames in west London have been collected along the River Thames in Hammersmith as part of work to build London’s new super sewer, which will tackle 95% of sewage overflows that currently pollute the river.

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Puerto Rico's once-in-a-lifetime chance to build a clean energy grid

GreenBiz

Puerto Rico adopted laws that called for generating 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050. But FEMA's fossil fuel plans might stymie that progress.

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Hemp and lime studio in Italy highlights sustainable living

Inhabitat - Innovation

Architects Cosimo Terlizzi and partner Damien Modolo have created a lamia-style hemp and lime construction art studio in southern Italy. It combines traditional building style from the Valle d'Itria and Alto Salento region with modern and sustainable materials and energy management systems.

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GLOBAL CLEAN ENERGY, INC. NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 3rd Quarter Management Update

altenergymag

The quarter has been devoted to finishing the projects we have started so that before the first of the year our company will be operational with revenue. To that end we have brought on 6 consultants in the disciplines we are pursuing. Each of them have devoted time and effort to the company and they are each known as leaders in knowledge and profitable applications.

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To corporate America: Stop saying, 'We’ve always done sustainability!'

GreenBiz

Only if you have been tracking and decrease emissions from the inception of your company have you always been doing sustainability.

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How to Take Advantage of Sustainable Trends in Construction

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable Construction that Builds Competitive Advantage. With consumer demand for green products and services quickly on the rise, the construction and building products industry is looking for ways to manage cost while capitalizing on this new demand. Good news! There are a growing number of affordable building practices and products that allow you to offer green solutions while maintaining or even improving margins.

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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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These are the 67 best and worst countries for animal rights

Inhabitat - Innovation

We all know by now that where a person is born can convey privilege — or the opposite. But what about animals? Their country of origin can make the difference between leading a posh life with toys, a pet bed and even a wardrobe, or winding up on somebody’s dinner plate.

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2021 Market Roundup: Growing Need of Energy Harvesting System in Coming Future

altenergymag

Increasing the use of remote energy recovery systems to minimize power disruptions, improve the dependability and supplement an electronic system's principal power source in an electronic circuit is mainly due to the expansion of the world energy harvesting system market.

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What would it take to make AI ‘greener’?

GreenBiz

The first step is to promote the practice of more holistic and multidimensional model evaluation.

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8 Eco-Friendly Features that Increase Home Value

Green Living Guy

In today’s evolving world, there is a visible trend in favor of eco-friendly home upgrades. People are much more concerned about their future home expenses, so they look forward to investing more in homes with eco-friendly features. Although installing eco-friendly features is a bit expensive to buy, they will ensure a fair amount of savings in […].

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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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Art installation in Milan shows how much CO2 trees capture

Inhabitat - Innovation

Natural Capital is one of the largest data visualizations ever created, and it is suitably impressive. This installation has been erected in the famous historical botanical garden in Milan, the Orto Botanico di Brera.

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The right capital in the right place at the right time can take climate impact beyond ‘net zero’

Impact Alpha

Since COP26 was gaveled to a close earlier this month, a flurry of hot takes and deeply considered critiques have interrogated Mark Carney’s. The post The right capital in the right place at the right time can take climate impact beyond ‘net zero’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Why we need to invest in female climate entrepreneurs

GreenBiz

We can support the development of female entrepreneurs using accelerators and incubators and recruiting more women into the tech and banking sectors.

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A Brief Guide on How to Compost in Your Apartment

Green Living Guy

Composting is an ancient practice that takes a load of organic material and returns it to where it came from. It’s perfect for garden waste, but it’s also the ideal way to deal with your food waste, diverting tons of material that would otherwise rot in a landfill or end up incinerated. In fact, as […]. The post A Brief Guide on How to Compost in Your Apartment appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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100-year-old railway yard turned into a green space

Inhabitat - Innovation

Parco Romana is an urban-scale redevelopment project in Milan’s Porta Romana district. The international team behind it includes OUTCOMIST, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, PLP Architecture, Carlo Ratti Associati and Arup.

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Upstart Power Introduces Upgen NXG™, A Smarter Generator for a Cleaner Tomorrow

altenergymag

Upgen NXG Fuel Cell Generators are superior long-duration backup systems that are safe, clean, efficient, quiet, scalable, versatile, easy to install, and maintenance free. Upgen NXG Fuel Cell Generators are deployed in combination with battery storage and optional solar and enable comprehensive energy resilience and indefinite backup operation in residential and industrial applications.

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What does the future hold for wet markets?

GreenBiz

More than a year after the emergence of COVID-19, researchers at Princeton University suggests that an across-the-board ban on wet markets would do more harm than good.

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Can You Install Solar For Your Apartment?

Green Living Guy

Every year, we learn more about how climate change affects our planet. Now that 2021 is nearly over, you’ve decided it’s time to make a difference. You want to switch to solar power as an energy source. But is this possible in an apartment? Even if you’re sold on the benefits of solar power, your landlord […]. The post Can You Install Solar For Your Apartment?

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Virtual pavilion looks into the future of sustainable design

Inhabitat - Innovation

The built environment is responsible for consuming over one-third of global energy and produces 40% of the world's energy-related carbon emissions. To highlight the impact of sustainable design for local and global contexts, the Visualization and VR team at AECOM, in collaboration with exhibition designers at Install Archive, designed a virtual pavilion called Build Better Now for COP26.

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Renewables are 87% of new U.S. generating capacity so far this year

Renewable Energy World

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower) dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions during the first three-quarters of 2021. [1]. FERC’s latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with data through September 30, 2021) reveals that renewable energy sources accounted f

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Decarbonizing homes to address environmental racism

GreenBiz

Historic discriminatory housing policies such as redlining have resulted in low-income households being more likely to be situated in areas that are subject to extreme surface heat.

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Toothpaste Ingredients to Avoid

Green Living Guy

It’s time for a side-by-side comparison of toothpaste. Let’s look at how organic toothpaste stacks up against the rest when it comes to a few common ingredients. Is it “healthier”? Is it “better”? And, after all, is it “worth it”? Fluoride There’s a good chance that you were brought up being told that fluoride is […]. The post Toothpaste Ingredients to Avoid appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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PANGEA Movement's Eco-jacket uses 100% recycled materials

Inhabitat - Innovation

The PANGEA Movement is all about the planet in more than just name. It is a company with a focus on green design products and a dedication to using proceeds from sales to rid the Earth’s waterways of plastic and other pollution.

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THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR AN ALL-ENERGY THAT REALLY HITS THE SPOT

altenergymag

• Mirroring COP26's Glasgow Climate Pact aims; • Short listed for AEO's ‘Conference of the Year' for its webinar series; • Call for Speakers open; deadline 17 December 2021. All-Energy and the co-located Dcarbonise (11-12 May 2022) are well set to be a COP26 ‘legacy event' - SEC Glasgow being the chosen venue for both - especially as they will focus on the aims described in one key point the final COP26 report, the Glasgow Climate Pact.

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Cultivating food sovereignty through regenerative ocean farming

GreenBiz

The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.

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Do You Drive To Work Every Day? Here Are Some More Eco-Friendly Options

Green Living Guy

You drive to work every day and it can be an exciting experience. But at the same time, it’s a long and frustrating commute, as you sit in traffic jams and breathe exhaust from other cars. You know it’s not good for the environment or your health, but what can you do? What is supposed […]. The post Do You Drive To Work Every Day? Here Are Some More Eco-Friendly Options appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Try these vegan side dishes for Thanksgiving

Inhabitat - Innovation

Thanksgiving is a day that's all about eating and enjoying, so when there are vegans involved on the day that's all about turkey, it's pretty challenging. What can you serve as a vegan side dishes to turkey that will still be delicious, festive and not totally difficult to prepare and cook?

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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Market to Hit US$ 150.2 Bn by 2030

altenergymag

The electric vehicle charging infrastructure market size is predicted to hit around US$ 150.20 billion by 2030 and is growing at a CAGR of 33.10% from 2021 to 2030.

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As the climate bakes, Turkey faces a future without water

GreenBiz

As heat and drought increase, Turkey is doubling down on water-intensive agriculture and development, spurring a water-supply crisis.

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6 Items In Your Bedroom That You Need To Switch Them Into Eco-friendly Materials

Green Living Guy

What can you do in order to make your bedroom more eco-friendly? This is a question that many people are asking themselves. Well, there are six bedroom items that you should switch out in order to help the environment and save money. Your Bedsheets So the first thing everyone does when it comes to eco-friendly […]. The post 6 Items In Your Bedroom That You Need To Switch Them Into Eco-friendly Materials appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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