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Smart Energy Finances: SMS smart meters lift dividends and €15.1bn EIB green financing

Smart Energy International

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees Smart Metering Services (SMS) post lifted dividends, citing increased smart meter installations – up to 40,000 per month – and their first grid-scale battery project coming online. SMS strong H1: 40k monthly smart meters and grid-scale battery project.

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UK project will use AI plus microbes to unlock higher biogas production

Envirotec Magazine

It’s used to treat waste, reduce landfill emissions, and generate renewable energy through biogas. For example, more waste can be turned into valuable forms of energy and transportation can be reduced.” Microbes convert materials into soluble substances, which are then transformed into gases like methane.

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Digital technology, green finance in vogue among fashion’s sustainability trendsetters

GreenBiz

Downstream supply chain participants that rarely have a personal stake, such as powerful brands and retailers, hardly encourage prioritization of sustainability upstream. For example, blockchain platform Provenance helps trace and certify supply chains to enable ethical procurement decisions.

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What Makes a Successful Company Internship Program?

Green Business Bureau

Employers must be sure to clearly define what tasks interns will be doing and establish whether they should receive payment for their work or whether it is purely for educational purposes. Evaluation and Feedback: Monitor Performance and Offer Guidance. Evaluation & Feedback: Monitor Performance and Offer Guidance.

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SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Green Business Bureau

Responsible production requires manufacturing goods and services in an ethical and sustainable way that minimizes waste and pollution and supports long-term sustainability of surrounding communities and their natural environments. Additionally, more consumers are preferring organizations with demonstrated environmental and ethical practices.

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8 Steps to Green Business Certification With Little Monetary Investment

Green Business Bureau

Companies with a declared sustainability ethic and well-defined, properly measured green business practices that are third-party verified see tremendous cost-saving and revenue-generating opportunities as a key foundation to their greening efforts. Set monitors to enter sleep mode after 5-10 minutes of inactivity.

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How cloud computing can close the gap between green commitments and action 

Business Green

As part of our mission at Google to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) by 2030, we continue to prioritise internal development in sustainable operations and initiatives. Today, Google data centres are twice as energy efficient as the typical data centre. We practice what we preach, and aim to empower our customers to do the same.