The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As the world struggles to combat climate change, the need for a sustainable economy is more urgent than ever. Why do we need a sustainable economy? Thare’s no denying – we’re fully responsible for the damage done to our environment. What’s stopping us?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability presents seaweed as a model solution for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, joblessness, hunger and environmental damage. Our research consolidates seaweed farming as an underpinning of a sustainable future,” said lead author Professor Carlos Duarte. “It

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Since the world was introduced to the first meal kit over a decade ago, the industry has matured in size and familiarity, but it also has endured notable criticism surrounding packaging and its perceived impact on the environment. As head of sustainability at HelloFresh US, it is my charge to advance this standard.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

What does ‘sustainable water sector’ actually mean? What does ‘sustainable water sector’ actually mean? One of the biggest challenges is defining what ‘sustainable’ actually means for the water sector. A hot topic at the moment is ensuring resilience and sustainability within the supply chain.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00.

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GreenBiz

JULY 14, 2021

Edge Environment. Edge is an international sustainability consultancy focused on serving clients based in Asia-Pacific and the Americas. We exist to help our clients generate value by creating truly sustainable economies and societies. taylor flores. Wed, 07/14/2021 - 09:37.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Biohm, a London biotech and biomanufacturing startup, has created a line of sustainable lampshades called Obscure that are made of 100% coffee chaff and orange peel. Biohm has become an example of what's possible in development and bio-manufacturing of natural materials for the built environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. The Old Oak development will create 22,000 new jobs. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

Six spot Burnet moth (image credit: © Claire Pumfrey) The importance of invertebrates to the environment and food security has received a significant mark of recognition from the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (SITC), a development welcomed by Buglife, an organisation devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

It incorporates a vertical farm, an indoor field that replicates real environments anywhere in the globe, and suites that imitate a warming world – with researchers able to raise CO2 concentration and temperature levels at will. The STEPS lab was part funded by the Wolfson Foundation who pledged $1.2million to support its development.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Plastic Waste Management Framework lays out a framework with policy levers and actions that can be used to develop national action plans for advancing waste management systems and help effect systems change, according to the group behind it, non-profit organisation the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (supported by Roland Berger).

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The net-zero energy Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai advocates green architecture and showcases the possibilities of integrating nature within urban environments. Displaying lush greenery, digital solutions and art, the Pavilion exemplifies Singapore's vision of sustainable development to become a "City in Nature."

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

When it comes to chemicals used in the manufacture of IT products, very few have been studied for their impact on humans and the environment. Hazardous substances used by the IT industry are a risk to both humans and the environment. TCO Certified is a developer of sustainability certification for IT products.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Swedish city of Gothenburg is developing the world's first large-scale zero-emissions city zone. In collaboration with Volvo Cars, Gothenburg's Green City Zone initiative will be open to economic activities, allowing people to participate in businesses while supporting a sustainable environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In a world where the environment is constantly changing, it is important that we have individuals who are able to help develop sustainable practices. The post The Surveyor’s Roles in Developing a Sustainable Society appeared first on The Green Living Guy. Thanks to their work, we are able […].

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A new paper published in January in the Journal of Applied Ecology , with support from the BTO and funding from Natural England, monitored how farmland bird populations responded to different levels of agri-environment schemes in arable, pastoral and mixed farming landscapes.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

At the British Water Micropollutants Conference 2024, which took place in London on 8 February, keynote speakers from the UK’s Environment Agency called for a cross-industry approach to tackling the issue.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

A new data visualisation tool “to help researchers better understand the effects medicines have on Scotland’s environment” has been launched by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) on behalf of the One Health Breakthrough Partnership (OHBP)*. Medicines in the environment.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 24, 2024

Siemens and Mercedes-Benz have collaboratively developed a Digital Energy Twin to improve the integration of energy efficiency and sustainability measures in factory designs and upgrades. The Digital Energy Twin is our answer to successfully visualise, analyse and sustainably optimise energy-efficient building processes.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

The High Court will also decide whether the government has failed properly to apply its own Environment Act 2021, which requires policy to be assessed for its environmental impacts. Worse still – Michael Gove has adopted a ministerial statement which has the effect of discouraging the building of homes to a sustainable standard.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The scheme was first unveiled in December 2015 by the Highland Council, before a public inquiry into the development was launched in February 2019. He said: “The decision by Scottish Ministers is a landmark decision that recognises the importance of the natural environment in national planning policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Traffic noise is disrupting the daily lives of Britons with 81% able to hear road noises around their property and one in seven (17%) UK adults completely unable to escape the sound, according to a poll commissioned by GRIDSERVE, a firm with a focus on sustainable energy technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Consultancy firm Ricardo has developed a seemingly first of its kind Persistence Assessment Tool to provide manufacturers and importers of chemical substances and products, regulators, and the scientific community with support and guidance to undertake complex persistence assessments of chemicals in the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pollenize uses the data to spot any gaps in biodiversity and create tailored seed prescriptions to help the environment flourish. The new town of Sherford has already won awards for its approach to sustainability and work to enhance and enrich the landscape. and discover more about Pollenize at www.pollenize.org.uk

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

While achieving the United Nations (UN) ambitious Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for wastewater treatment would cause substantial improvements in global water quality, severe water quality issues would continue to persist in some world regions. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A cross-cutting theme of the Congress was the need to align road infrastructure management and development with efforts to address several complex and intersecting global development challenges. The Sustainable Development Goals Report published earlier this year, presented a candid assessment of progress.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2022

The Environment Agency is to use Mott MacDonald’s Moata Intelligent Content as its Smart Object Library (SOL) and will make it available to all of the Agency’s internal teams and project delivery partners. Moata Intelligent Content provides a standardised, managed library of BIM objects that can be re-used instead of re-created.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It supports and sustains animal, and plant life by regulating the flow of water, greenhouse gases, nutrients and energy. We’ve changed our environment to such an extent that we have created a new geological epoch through the alterations we’ve made to the critical zone.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans are dangerous pollutants due to their carcinogenicity and persistence in the environment. This development significantly enhances the low-temperature degradation of furan, offering a novel solution for the efficient breakdown of persistent organic pollutants.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

33% of manufacturing businesses said the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the sustainability goals of their manufacturing business as priorities have shifted. Overall, 40% of the 1,021 UK SMEs surveyed do not have a plan in place to become more sustainable, with 30% not intending to put a net zero strategy in place at all.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

kilowatt (kW) per home per day Professor Ianakiev, of the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, said: “In urban areas, vertical access wind turbines have low noise emissions and can harness wind energy from any direction, during low and high winds, 24 hours a day, making them particularly useful during the windy winter months.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers hoping to rebrand a marine pest as a nutritious food have developed the world’s first system of farming shipworms, which they have renamed ‘Naked Clams’ These long, white saltwater clams are the world’s fastest-growing bivalve and can reach 30cm long in just six months.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 26, 2024

The spotlight on environmental sustainability has intensified in recent years, pushing industries to seek more eco-friendly solutions. The company employs cutting-edge energy-efficient technologies in its hydraulic equipment to demonstrate how sustainability can be embedded into the fabric of industrial operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

They are the salt-tolerant shrubs that thrive in the toughest of conditions, but according to new research, mangroves are also avid coastal protectors, capable of surviving in heavy metal contaminated environments. We must protect our mangrove forests so that they can continue their job in protecting our environment.”.

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NRDC onEarth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO – The carbon emissions associated with materials used in the built environment, referred to as “embodied carbon,” are estimated to contribute up to 11% of all global energy-related carbon emissions.1 1 According to a new report from sustainable development.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Connecting the Living and the Built Environment” Ginkgo Sustainability Inc. is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity.

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