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Why JPMorgan, Delta and Frontier Co-op support ‘second chance’ hiring

GreenBiz

There are millions of unfilled positions open across the United States. By overlooking individuals with criminal records, businesses are ignoring a big pool of potential candidates.

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Confusion reigns as Whitehall briefing contradicts PM’s net zero speech

Envirotec Magazine

There are increasing concerns that civil servants in the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) are attempting to undermine the Prime Minister’s attempts to reset the UK’s net zero policies, says trade body the Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA). In a briefing issued to the heating industry only hours after the PM’s net zero speech officials outlined their continuing approach to “encouraging” households to fit heat pumps, retaining unrealistic targets for heat pump installations

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Food Is Made to be Eaten: New Videos Encourage Food Donation

NRDC onEarth

NRDC teamed up with Chef Tom Colicchio to highlight liability protections for food donors because food is made to be eaten and should not end up in landfills.

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Beginner’s Guide to Living Off the Grid in the City

U.S. Green Technology

The desire for independence, environmental responsibility, and self-reliance has inspired many to embark on the fascinating journey of living off the grid. However, such a lifestyle is often associated with remote cabins in the wilderness, far from the hustle and bustle of city life. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Living off the grid.

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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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What’s top of mind for the most influential people in climate

GreenBiz

As private and public sector leaders met at Climate Week NYC to talk about the climate crisis, three ways sustainability professionals can take immediate action emerged.

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Managing information flow

Envirotec Magazine

Lillestrom in southeast Norway. An AI analytics platform has had a transformational impact on water management in a Norwegian municipality, writes Marco Westergren, chief analytics officer at technology firm InfoTiles. The water-rich municipality of Lillestrøm was looking for a way to acquire more useful data to ensure decision-making and use of resources were as efficient as possible.

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6 Ways to Lower Your Natural Gas Bill and Make Your Energy Usage More Efficient

U.S. Green Technology

Over the last couple of years, the prices of gas and other energy sources had a pretty rough ride. And with all things going out in Europe and the rest of the world as well as one global pandemic behind us, these developments are perfectly understandable. Be that as it may, CNBS reports that since. The post 6 Ways to Lower Your Natural Gas Bill and Make Your Energy Usage More Efficient appeared first on U.S.

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Public Storage is backing 130 community solar projects. Here’s why

GreenBiz

The portfolio will bring renewable electricity to low- and moderate-income communities in Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey.

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“Embarrassingly Wrong” Tufton Street Net Zero Report Gets Widespread Coverage

DeSmogBlog

A report from the Tufton Street group Civitas on the supposed cost of net zero was featured in several major newspapers today despite serious data errors. Authored by management consultant Ewen Stewart, the report claimed that achieving net zero emissions will cost the UK £4.5 trillion, or £6,000 per household, by 2050. The report was covered in the the Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail, the Spectator, and the influential conservative blog Guido Fawkes through both news reports and opinion pieces

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Renewable Power Helped the United States Survive the Hottest Summer Ever

NRDC onEarth

This summer, the United States endured the two warmest months ever recorded, yet the system held because of renewable energy.

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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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Building a sustainable future

U.S. Green Technology

The future of the construction industry relies on sustainable renewable energy solutions and eco-friendly practices. New homes and commercial sites should be built with future-proofing greener technologies, while widespread efforts should be made to reduce the sector’s carbon dioxide emissions. Whether you’re working on-site or managing a project proposal, it’s always worth knowing how technological.

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American Climate Corps: What we know so far

GreenBiz

A new federal work program is hoping to train 20,000 young Americans the technical skills needed in a climate tech marketplace.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. Here’s What Actually Happened.

DeSmogBlog

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. For years, experts have pointed out that CCS has been primarily used to pump more oil out of the earth, using a process known as enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

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What Is the Air Quality Index?

NRDC onEarth

The Air Quality Index (AQI) is used for reporting daily air quality. How to read it and how to protect yourself from air pollution.

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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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Europe’s banks helped fossil fuel firms raise more than €1tn from global bond markets

The Guardian: Energy

Exclusive: Pan-European investigation looked at thousands of transactions since Paris climate agreement in 2016 Banks including some of Europe’s largest lenders have helped fossil fuel companies to raise more than €1tn (£869bn) from the global bond markets since the Paris climate agreement, according to an investigation by the Guardian and its reporting partners.

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Cargill is using giant sails on its cargo fleet to cut greenhouse emissions

GreenBiz

Shipping has long been a high-carbon industry, but Cargill and BAR Technologies believe wind power can change that.

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Three Ways Technology is Changing The Future of Renewable Energy

U.S. Green Technology

Renewable energy is at the forefront of the global push for sustainability and reduced carbon emissions. As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, the need for clean energy sources has never been more pressing. Fortunately, technology advancements like CEKO sensors are reshaping the future of renewable energy. Wind Power Innovation Technological advancements are transforming.

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Rooftop solar meets all of South Australia demand in major new milestone

Renew Economy

Updated: Rooftop solar meets all of South Australia's demand at one stage on Saturday, as more records fall across the grid, including batteries, low coal and minimum demand. The post Rooftop solar meets all of South Australia demand in major new milestone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Fervo Energy breaks ground on next-gen geothermal project in Cape Station, Utah

ThinkGeoEnergy

Fervo Energy has broken ground on an exploration drilling campaign for a next-generation geothermal energy project at Cape Station in Beaver County, Utah. The project is set to deliver 400 MW of electricity by 2026 with full-scale production targeted by 2028. Earlier this year, Fervo announced breakthrough results of its first full-scale EGS pilot project in northern Nevada, Project Red.

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Amazon, IKEA and Patagonia have joined a group to buy zero-emissions maritime shipping fuel

GreenBiz

The Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance is looking to decrease emissions from ocean shipping by 90 percent.

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Italian Oil Giant Eni Knew About Climate Change More Than 50 Years Ago, Report Reveals

DeSmogBlog

Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog. The report comes four months after the two organizations announced a lawsuit against the company alleging Eni used “lobbying and greenwashing” to push for more oil and gas production, despite having known about the risks fossil fuels posed over the past 53 years.

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Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions

The Verge: Energy

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks during an interview in Redmond, Washington, on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023. | Image: Chona Kasinger / Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft thinks next-generation nuclear reactors can power its data centers and AI ambitions, according to a job listing for a principal program manager who’ll lead the company’s nuclear energy strategy.

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Ditching fossil fuels can shave $800 from a Canadian family’s monthly bills: report

Clean Energy Canada

OTTAWA — With the International Energy Agency’s latest milestone report pointing to a peak in fossil fuel demand by the end of this decade, Clean Energy Canada has released a new study illustrating what ditching oil and gas means for Canadian households and their energy bills. A family living in a house in a Toronto suburb that adopts a few common clean energy solutions—including EVs and heat pumps—could knock $800 off their monthly energy bills, compared to one that is largely reliant on fossil

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Carbon credits for forest preservation projects are mostly ‘illusory’, UC Berkeley study says

GreenBiz

New research into Verra’s REDD+ methodology found cherry-picking and over-crediting.

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How Exactly Does Lead Exposure Harm the Brain?

NRDC onEarth

The metal is highly toxic to neural development in children. Here’s why—and what the country can do to prevent it.

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Alstom to Present Italy’s First Hydrogen-Powered Train and the Latest Innovations for Smart Mobility at EXPO Ferroviaria 2023

FuelCellsWorks

Alstom and Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM) will unveil the hydrogen-powered Coradia Stream, Italy’s first hydrogen train The new Metropolis train for the Turin Metro Line 1 will also be unveiled together.

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Electric big rigs are going farther and charging faster

Canary Media

There’s only one way to know if electric trucks can really replace diesel-fueled trucks: load them up with cargo, put them on the road and collect the data to see how far they can go. That’s exactly what 10 freight depots in North America have been doing over the past two weeks.

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How CFOs can position companies to be sustainability leaders

GreenBiz

Chief financial officers are integral to meeting corporate net-zero commitments.

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Rimac unveils ‘most technically advanced BESS in the world’, SineStack

Energy Storage News

Rimac Energy, the battery energy storage system (BESS) division of EV supercar company, has unveiled its new product at the Energy Storage Summit Central Eastern Europe (CEE).

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Fire erupts in Tesla Megapack module at Bouldercombe battery, sparks new energy war

Renew Economy

Fire breaks out in Tesla Megapack module at new Bouldercombe battery in Queensland, prompting Chris Bowen to slap down Matt Canavan who led the predictable conservative backlash. The post Fire erupts in Tesla Megapack module at Bouldercombe battery, sparks new energy war appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How Carbon Capture and Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally 

DeSmogBlog

When Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber opens the 28th annual UN climate conference in Dubai in November, he will be juggling two roles – convincing the world of the United Arab Emirates’ leadership in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while preserving the very industry that’s causing them. In addition to his job as summit president, Al Jaber heads the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), which plans to increase its oil and gas output by 11 percent by 2027.

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California takes big first step toward floating offshore wind

Canary Media

California has a goal of building gigawatts of wind power off its coast by the end of the decade. To meet that goal, it has to create a floating offshore wind industry from scratch.

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Satellite Data on the Go: Planet and the onX suite of apps Enable Your Outdoor Adventures

Planet Pulse

Across the United States, outdoor enthusiasts are packing their backpacks, lacing up their shoes, and filling their water bottles for long, nature-filled weekends. As summer moves into fall, they are trading in their baseball caps for their wool flannel shirts, and checking their weather app in the process. These recreationists are also swiping through their phones and preparing for their trips with onX’s suite of recreation apps which deliver detailed geospatial information about wilderness adv

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Big Battery to the rescue as rooftop PV pushes biggest isolated grid to record demand lows

Renew Economy

WA's first big battery comes to the rescue as rooftop solar provides record 76 pct of state generation and sends grid demand below crucial threshold. The post Big Battery to the rescue as rooftop PV pushes biggest isolated grid to record demand lows appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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