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Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore

Grist

Big news: Global warming is over. a German renewable energy company, scoured 1.3 a German renewable energy company, scoured 1.3 They found that searches for global warming , once the most common phrase for our overheating planet, are down 73 percent since 2010. Just the phrase itself, though.

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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. Treating the world’s unavoidable organic wastes through AD would help meet over one quarter of this alarming shortfall (2).

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Report: 30M solar homes would create 1.77M jobs, $69B in energy savings

Renewable Energy World

million new solar jobs and reducing energy bills by $69 billion, the report found that enacting the 30 Million Solar Homes policies would over five years: Eliminate global warming air pollution equivalent to closing 48 coal-burning power plants or taking 42 million cars off the road for a year. In addition to creating 1.77

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Sponsored Content: ADBA National Conference 2023 to make the business case for anaerobic digestion in ensuring energy and food security for the UK

Envirotec Magazine

Keynote speakers: Lord Deben, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change, and Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Minister for Green New Deal and Energy. The guardians of the Paris Agreement have concluded AD is the cheapest and most cost-effective way to keep global warming below 2 ? C”, he adds. “The

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“Cost-effective alternative to air source heat pumps” secures £1.3m funding

Envirotec Magazine

Instead of using refrigerant gases with high global warming potential (GWP), Barocal’s technology uses new solid-state, temperature-changing materials. Said to be cheap and non-toxic, they are organic materials that release and absorb heat at different pressures as they change volume.

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Brazilian study suggests better ways of managing MSW

Envirotec Magazine

The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. Harmonia, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the South region, also features domestic composting, and diverts almost half its organic waste from MSW collection and treatment systems. São Paulo has three sanitary landfills.

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‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion

DeSmogBlog

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. But it was canceled without explanation by conference organizers several weeks before it was due to begin. It’s not new.”