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Tech Startup Sustainability Guide: Running An Eco-Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

Being more energy-efficient, reducing waste – through recycling, reuse, and reducing regimes -, and curbing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the daily commute, all help your company save money. The average gas end electricity consumed by a medium-sized office is 45,000 kWh and 30,000-50,000 kWh per year respectively.

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Green light: Extreme E to race in former Scottish coal mine

Business Green

Opencast coal mine to stage electric off-road rallying series before transformation into pumped hydro storage plant and wind farm Extreme E has this week confirmed the former Glenmuckloch opencast coal mine in Dumfries and Galloway will host the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button at its Hydro X Prix on 13 and 14 May.

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Dry Cleaning Sustainability: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. This includes carbon emissions from your buildings, equipment and vehicles. Dry Cleaning Operations & Machinery.

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Sustainability Guide For Commercial Landscaping And Lawncare Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. Switch to battery powered machines. Customers Are Demanding Sustainability.

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? Alterra’s $30B bridge for climate financing #176

Climate Tech VC

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. In new funds, energy transition infrastructure is bringing in the big bucks with Brookfield's record-breaking $28B infra fund and Antin's $1.2B sustainable infra fund.

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How deeper global clean tech collaboration is needed to avoid net zero delay

Business Green

The multi-agency report warns that much greater momentum is needed to develop and deploy green solutions at scale across key sectors such as electricity, road transport, steel, hydrogen, and agriculture, which together account for around 60 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sustainable Dry Cleaners: Getting Started Guide

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. For starters, energy consumption due to lighting and HVAC systems in the buildings can most easily be resolved.