Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Hailing from KAUST and Aarhus University, the co-authors outline a prospectus for the cultivation and use of seaweed as a carbon capture technology, a job and tax revenue generator, and a food source. Our research consolidates seaweed farming as an underpinning of a sustainable future,” said lead author Professor Carlos Duarte.

Climate change 329

Climate change Carbon-negative Sustainability Biodiversity 329

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

Meanwhile, African Americans are missing out on wealth creation opportunities in the clean energy economy, which could be an effective solution to some of these underlying issues — bringing jobs and environmental benefits to communities that need it the most. ISEA : Future Energy Jobs Act Workforce Development Programs.

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Politics Energy Energy Climate change 130

ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Drillers’ job satisfaction has improved because they now have a modern tool at their disposal. The tilting rotary head is automated to work together with the feeding table for the loading and unloading of the drill string. The values monitored include drilling feed speed, rotation speed and torque, feed force, and drill bit pressure.

Energy Monitor 116

Energy Monitor Innovation Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 116

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

After four years of the new rules, and with no government support or feed-in tariffs on offer for residential solar, 80 percent of new homes in Scotland featured solar. The end of the feed-in tariff saw swathes of installers exit the sector. Generous feed-in tariffs triggered a boom in retrofit PV installs in the UK.

Home Energy Monitoring 130

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 130

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“Excess phosphorus in wastewater actually causes unwanted algal blooms in our water systems because algae feed on it. It’s completely 100% sustainable and actually does a better job than the current way of doing things, which is unequivocally environmentally unfriendly.

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Innovation Technology Sustainability 130

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Support in the forms of cheap land and warehouse facilities, as well as feed-in tariffs, helped companies like Suntech and Trina Solar to build scale and slash costs. Hydrogen has been a central theme in European recovery plans, including the EU’s trillion-euro package as policymakers look to marry job creation and carbon reduction.

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Europe Hydrogen Packaging Government 246

GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

trillion infrastructure plan — the American Jobs Plan — unveiled last week, the White House is proposing a massive $174 billion investment "to win the EV market." Corporate taxes will feed funding: Biden seeks to raise corporate taxes, raising $2 trillion over the next 15 years. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 04/07/2021 - 01:15.

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Electric vehicle Investment Batteries Transportation 522

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

The fishmeal trade is undermining human rights and putting jobs at risk in The Gambia, a new report has found. But a highly profitable marine ingredients trade funnels these fish to higher-value overseas markets, in particular as feed for aquaculture (or fish farming), pigs, chickens and supplements.

Africa 77

Africa Demand Seafood Agriculture 77

Terra Infirma

JULY 5, 2021

When I eventually quit to go travelling the world with Mrs K, I promised myself that I would in future only do a job I felt passionate about doing – and voi-la! If I felt pressure to have an ‘ethical’ job so I could avoid embarrassing silences in chats over a pint, what must the Insta-generation feel?

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Sustainability Ethics Investment Energy 59

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Later, as a wind and solar developer in Italy, she watched European markets grind to a halt after feed-in tariffs were slashed. Her job is to help get wind and solar deals done in the face of policy and financial risk. And in the U.S., Today, Britta is a managing director at CohnReznick Capital.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Government claims using higher proportion of bioethanol in petrol can help cut car CO2 while boosting jobs across the biofuel sector. There aren't many opportunities for the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions almost instantly - most take significant time and investment," Hartnell added.

Transportation 75

Transportation South America Electric vehicle Government 75

GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

Mentions of the Buffalo plant have been mysteriously absent from Musk’s Twitter feed, where the CEO has called local shutdown orders “fascist” and concerns around the coronavirus pandemic “dumb.” Tesla wants more time for New York jobs target.

Batteries 130

Batteries Investment Sustainability Energy 130

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

That’s not freedom, that’s coercion – forcing people into cities and into meaningless work, or, as David Graeber called them, B t Jobs. People who can’t feed themselves have to succumb to boring work in poor urban housing or starve. But small farms can’t feed the world, can they?

Agriculture 139

Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Three auxiliary spillways feeding the power plant were mothballed in the late 1960s. In the early days, this was a full-time manual job, with an operator remotely stationed to raise and lower penstocks and keeping them clean.

Electricity 130

Electricity Investment Energy Energy 130

Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Dubbed Whitetail Clean Energy, the project aims to deliver 300MW of capacity when it is up and running and is expected to support over 2,000 direct, indirect, and induced jobs, including cascading supply chain opportunities, the developer's said. Annual volumes of CO2 stored via the project are predicted to reach 5-10Mt per year by 2030.

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Hydrogen Carbon Climate change Government 88

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

The search for new carbon capture technologies to offset emissions is on, and set to create a new industry labelled ‘Carbon Capture and Sequestration’ (CCS for short) that will drive a climate-economy jobs growth. CCS and the rise of the engineer. million by 2030. Solving this challenge isn’t just a case of developing new skills though.

Carbon 130

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Business Energy Monitoring 130

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Starting out in sustainability: ­ The book also would be useful to people about to start in sustainability, whether it’s their first job or they are switching careers; the book can provide a primer on different roles you might play and how to play them effectively. To learn more, the book launch is taking place at 10 a.m.

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Sustainability Innovation Organic Waste 432

AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And as millions of Brits are skipping meals days at a time, according to a survey by the UK Food Foundation earlier this year, the UK is wasting $23 billion (£19 billion) worth of food each year, enough to feed a quarter of the world’s population. The whitepaper dubbed the ‘Food Chain 2.0’ Download the whitepaper here.

Startups 89

Startups Waste Waste Upcycling 89

GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Current management practices harm employee engagement and job performance, Pfeffer says, and they increase employee turnover and healthcare costs. We draw from it, and we feed into it. There’s even more at stake. Willing to experiment, learn and redesign. Open-minded and open-hearted. That’s so hard to do when we’re burned out.

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Sustainability Health Organic Energy 473

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Four companies have collaborated to develop what is said to be the first process in the world to produce compostable bioplastic from food and feed production side streams. Molasses is one of the by-products contributed to the project by Nordic Soya. The full-scale plant will be operating by the end of 2023, says VTT.

Biotechnology 130

Biotechnology Innovation Technology Sustainability 130

Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For example, technologies such as smart meters are creating a two-way grid where people can feed excess power generation from solar panels back to the grid. National Grid research shows that the UK energy sector will need 400,000 green jobs to reach net zero - 120,000 in this decade alone.

Home Energy Monitoring 63

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Innovation Energy Monitor 63

Charged

MAY 26, 2023

The announcement quickly took over every EV-related news feed. Tesla built its own charging network because it had no choice, and by all accounts it has done a great job. Is this deal really as “surprising,” “unprecedented” and “game-changing” as people are saying? Yes and no. From a public perception standpoint, yes, it’s a big deal.

Europe 122

Europe 122

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

The grid was something of a hindrance to the surge in solar installations when the country’s feed-in tariff was in place, with curtailment a substantial challenge for some provinces. That surge was backed by the rapid scaling up of manufacturing, as well as the feed-in tariff. Now it’s happening again.

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 130

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The design change saw lawmakers replacing feed-in tariffs with an auction system that was opened up to community projects. If these hurdles are not dismantled as quickly as possible and the way is paved for a sustainable economy, there is a risk of numerous jobs being lost.”

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Government Law Construction Energy 246

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Investing in your employees refers to providing the resources and opportunities necessary for employees to learn, grow and excel at their jobs. Peer-to-peer job shadowing. More purpose-driven job applicants. Ask your team what their professional goals are, what challenges they face on the job and how best they can be supported.

Investment 148

Investment Education Sustainability Organic 148

Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Dozens of jobs at risk as operator Banks Group voices frustration at failure to secure permission to extend lifetime of coal mine. The last coal is set to be extracted from the Bradley mine today before Banks Group focuses on landscaping and restoration of the site, putting at risk up to a dozen jobs, the mining firm announced on Friday.

Patents 73

Patents Government Climate change Europe 73

Low Impact

JUNE 16, 2021

In this article, Chris discusses whether small, organic farms can feed the world, and, of course, he concludes that they can. Not only can large, industrial farms not feed the world in the future, they will destroy the very soils and ecology of the only planet that we have to provide food at all. We think that this is very important.

Organic 79

Organic Agriculture Soil Africa 79

Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Clean energy remains the biggest job creator across America’s energy sector, employing nearly three times as many workers as work in fossil fuel extraction and generation. The power would feed Las Vegas and potentially additional areas in Southern California. MYTH #5 – There just aren’t as many job opportunities.

Energy 109

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Carbon 109

Elemental Excelerator

JULY 7, 2022

Naveen joins an already established board that includes Chair Laurene Powell Jobs, Elemental CEO Dawn Lippert, Kelvin Taketa, Cheryl Martin, and David Crane. We are thrilled to announce the addition of Naveen Sikka , CEO and founder at Terviva , to Elemental’s Board of Directors. Terviva was one of Elemental’s first investments in 2013.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Organic Soil Investment 52

Smart Energy International

APRIL 16, 2024

The grid needs to be readied to handle the feed-in of larger volumes of electricity from wind and solar power. Access to finance is crucial for business growth, job creation and better services,” said EIB president Nadia Calviño in a release.

Investment 52

Investment Packaging Power grid Transportation 52

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. “They’ll be fossils of the fossil fuel industry,” he said.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Natural gas Home Energy Monitoring 98

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The refurbishment will enable power to continue to feed into regional electricity networks, who distribute it to homes and businesses at lower, more usable voltages.

Energy Monitor 59

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Europe 59

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

The firm today said it had signed a "landmark" memorandum of understanding with the Welsh Government that will see both parties work together towards developing a commercially-viable facility in the Vale of Glamorgan to feed rapidly growing demand for lithium-ion batteries.

Automotive 83

Automotive Batteries Lithium Carbon-neutral 83

Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Hays' UK 2023 Salary and Recruiting Trends guide found that recruiters are ramping up efforts to fill green job vacancies, with 90 per cent of respondents who offer sustainability-focused roles actively seeking new applicants - a share that is notably higher than for other industries and functions.

Sustainability 36

Sustainability Ethics Demand Government 36

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the term lacks a widely agreed definition when used to discuss climate change, advocates of nature-based solutions say when managed well , these projects work, absorbing carbon, protecting ecosystems and wildlife, and creating jobs. But campaigners say the vagueness of the term leaves it ripe for corporate greenwashing.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 142

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

The chemicals giant said the demonstration plant would remove 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air annually, which would be recycled for use in the manufacturing of sodium bicarbonate, a key ingredient in glass, washing detergents, and pharmaceuticals, as well as in food products, animal feed, and water purification.

Carbon 69

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 69

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We need to boost the EU's domestic production to achieve our climate targets, feed the growing electricity demand and support the economy in its post-Covid recovery.". That’s a job for national governments. The question now is how these targets will be met by European Union nations.

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Real Estate Investment Europe Technology 130