2021

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How to Make Your Smart Home Eco-Friendly

U.S. Green Technology

Technological advancements are influencing the residential sector. As our home systems and appliances become smarter, we may notice changes in our energy consumption patterns. As a result, engineers are developing smart devices to increase a building’s power efficiency.

Waste 174
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The Impact of Excessive Heat on the Power Grid

CleanTech Alliance

In June 2021, the Pacific Northwest suffered the worst heat wave in recorded history. Since record keeping began in 1894, only three days have ever recorded a temperature of over 100° F, but June 2021 had three consecutive days of temperatures over 100° F.

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How to Reduce Your Business Waste In 2021: Top Tips

The Environmental Blog

If you want to make your business more sustainable in 2021 and bounce back from the current economic crisis, reducing your business waste is a great place to start.

Waste 396
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5 Tips for Buying an Electric Vehicle for First-Time Buyers

U.S. Green Technology

Electric vehicles are getting quite a lot of traction these last couple of years. And we have to admit now when the technology finally became affordable for an average consumer, the whole idea is too good to pass. But, do you even approach these vehicles?

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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

Join Ayesha Choudhury, Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium, to learn why we need eFuels in the carbon neutrality mix, how eFuels are produced, and how Infinium globally scales eFuel production to benefit society

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The Benefits of Green Manufacturing

The Environmental Blog

This decade has birthed various trends and some of these trends transformed into a movement without people’s support. Sustainability started as a trend too, but its critical need has made it an influencing factor that touches human lives all over the globe.

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The sectors where green jobs are growing in demand

GreenBiz

LinkedIn is seeing green jobs span a wide range of industries, from obvious ones such as renewables to more unexpected ones such as finance, fashion technologies and transport

Demand 484

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10 Reasons To Make The Switch To Green Cleaning

The Environmental Blog

Many of us care about the environment – some of us even go beyond the extra mile and take the effort to donate towards conservation groups and make important lifestyle changes to help clean up the planet. However, what if the problem is closer to home than we think?

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With climate concern at all-time high, consumers want action more than promises

GreenBiz

There is almost universal agreement globally that society should respond to climate change with the same urgency as it has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic

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How to Open Your Small Business to Eco-Friendly Ideas

U.S. Green Technology

The concept of green business opens up a vast source of ideas and inspiration which can be combined to unbelievable benefits. Apart from providing financial means, it’s a strong foothold against environmental pollution, carbon emissions and other plagues of the modern society.

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Irrational Nuclear Fear Puts Sweden In Danger Of Succumbing To Stupidity

Jim Conca

With 78% of the population supporting nuclear power, Sweden’s plan to prematurely shut down its entire nuclear fleet is bizarre, especially since it will add over 2 billion tons of CO2 emissions, cause the loss of $120 billion in taxes and undermine their grid reliability when it's really cold.

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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 Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.

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Save on Your Energy Bill with These Fun Household Activities

The Environmental Blog

Saving money isn’t always fun. Being environmentally responsible can sometimes feel more like a chore than a privilege. Try walking around with a handful of messy food you are trying to eat while juggling a purse, shopping bags, and a plastic bottle of water.

Energy 418
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How to Be More Sustainable in the Kitchen

The Environmental Blog

The kitchen is one of the busiest rooms in a house, and its activities can match a manufacturing process. In such a progression of activities, it is difficult to avoid waste. However, it is possible to devise ways of handling waste in the kitchen to promote a healthy environment.

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Eco-Business and Community Ethics

The Environmental Blog

As we already know that during the past few decades, technology has fundamentally changed our lives and some of them have sparked intense debates about the future of these technologies by policymakers.

Ethics 392
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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

Carbon 545
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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

Join our amazing panelists, Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable and International Broadcaster; Brenda Laurel, PhD, Principal, Neogaian Interactive; Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal, Dreamscape Global; Archie Kasnet, CEO, Regenerative; and Bruce Armstrong Taylor, The Climate 4.0 Project, to discuss how today's AR/VR and related AI-enabled technologies can be effectively applied, using data from such sources as NASA and NOAA, to both improve and accelerate urban sustainability planning and design.

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The world's cities aren't adapting to climate change quickly enough

GreenBiz

From Lagos to London, cities need to be reshaped

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Why the U.S. needs to get on track with high-speed rail

GreenBiz

The possibilities for high-speed rail innovation are many, and once the lasting infrastructure is built, the benefits to communities are long-lasting

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Is It Possible To Prevent Global Warming?

The Environmental Blog

Humanity has greatly affected the environment since ancient times and continues to do so. Have you ever thought about how I can prevent the effects of global warming, which we feel the effect of today ? So let’s take a look together. What is Global Warming?

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Why repair is the first step to tackling smartphone e-waste

GreenBiz

As smartphone sales have skyrocketed, so has the device’s contribution to waste streams and carbon emissions

Waste 545
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This startup helps companies price carbon

GreenBiz

Sinai Technologies, which just raised $10 million in seed funding, is a part of a wave of software startups focused on carbon accounting

Startups 545
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Why Microsoft uses the term ‘net zero’ carefully

GreenBiz

The software giant, which famously pledged to pay back its carbon debt in January 2020, is reminding other corporations that avoiding carbon and removing carbon are two very different things

Carbon 545
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NuScale Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Moves Another Step Forward

Jim Conca

The small modular nuclear reactor designed by NuScale has received an order to prepare for a combined construction and operating license application to build their SMR as part of the Carbon Free Power Project of Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS).

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The city as a living organism is circular by nature

GreenBiz

Urban metabolism is an approach that requires regarding cities as living organisms. There are practical reasons to adopt such a model, including the ability to derive a thorough understanding of an urban system’s dynamics and their redefinition in a circular and sustainable way

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AeroFarms is trying to cultivate the future of vertical farming

GreenBiz

The vertical farming company is poised for a momentous 18 months and the consequences will inform the future of sustainable agriculture

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Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity

GreenBiz

Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. Heather Clancy. Mon, 07/12/2021 - 02:00. The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7

Waste 544
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Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid

GreenBiz

Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid. Sarah Golden. Fri, 07/02/2021 - 02:00. The impacts of climate change feel abstract until they’re not. . I’ve spent the last five days living through an unprecedented heat dome in Oregon. The temperatures are suffocating.

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

GreenBiz

5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 05/24/2021 - 01:40. When most people think about good design, they might think of an Eames lounge chair, an iPhone or Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture.

Cooling 545
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When it comes to social and environmental justice, words don’t cut it

GreenBiz

When it comes to social and environmental justice, words don’t cut it. CJ Clouse. Wed, 04/28/2021 - 00:05. Not so long ago, business was business.

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Four Ways You Can Become More Environmentally Friendly in 2021

The Environmental Blog

One of the best developments that have come out of the past few decades is that people are becoming a lot more environmentally friendly. Many of us are becoming more eco-conscious about the different decisions we make allowing us to become friendlier towards the environment.

Education 381
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It’s time to collaborate on climate and economic justice solutions

GreenBiz

It’s time to collaborate on climate and economic justice solutions. Davida Herzl. Mon, 04/19/2021 - 01:15. Air pollution has grave consequences — the World Health Organization estimates it kills 7 million people a year.

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It’s time to redefine sustainability

GreenBiz

It’s time to redefine sustainability. Esteban Guerrero. Tue, 07/27/2021 - 02:15. It’s time we should be able to explain sustainability to a 5-year-old — in five words or less. There really aren’t many simple definitions of sustainability.

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Celebrating 10 female leaders in sustainability

GreenBiz

Celebrating 10 female leaders in sustainability. Heather Clancy. Fri, 05/21/2021 - 01:30. Lift while you climb.".

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What Would Nuclear Batteries Do For Us?

Jim Conca

Centralized power systems are inefficient and cumbersome in our new technological future. Like the old telephone system that gave way to autonomous locally-controlled hand-held devices, nuclear batteries can make the same change for power to small, mobile, safe, clean, and affordable markets.

Batteries 522
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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

GreenBiz

Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Aubrey McCormick. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 02:00. Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books.

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The grease and cheese study that proved pizza box recyclability

GreenBiz

Sponsored: A study conducted by WestRock recently debunked the long-held myth that corrugated pizza boxes are unrecyclable. Now, they’re urging consumer education and municipal guideline updates to help that fiber stay in the recycling stream

Recycling 535