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Comment: Smart water reuse and flood management technology “could be a vital strategic water asset”

Envirotec Magazine

Water infrastructure planners should aim to exploit emergent digitally-controlled rainwater storage and recycling technologies to contribute substantially to water demand reduction targets, as well as reducing flood and pollution risks, say experts. SDS says its Intellistorm system is operating successfully at Southbank Place.

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How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US

GreenBiz

From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives).

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2022

Greentown Labs

Conduit Tech builds software and machine learning technologies that integrate home-specific insights and data into the HVAC sales process. Electricity. Alma Energy leverages geothermal exploration to deliver scaled renewable energy production at economic levels. Resiliency + Adaptation. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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How can Canada meet net-zero goals? Focus on the grid

Smart Energy International

Whether switching from gas powered cars to EVs or from oil heating to electric, Canada has the chance to lead the transition to a cleaner and greener world. From a generation perspective, this seems doable with solar and wind farms popping up everywhere and consumers being receptive of making the switch to electric vehicles.

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Kansas City achieves LEED Gold with LEED for Cities

Greenability Magazine

We’re working with community partners to ensure we’re building a more resilient energy system for the future.” Renewable Energy – This program allows the city to offset a percentage of its energy usage through a renewable resource. to be credited to the city since the program began.

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Energy saving innovations dominate Scottish Environment Business Awards

Envirotec Magazine

More than half of the winners cited energy saving as key to their plans for success and a third were named winners for their innovation in becoming more efficient. A new Energy Transition Scotland Award was also added to the categories this year. improvement on energy storage, leading to significant carbon savings.

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Greentown Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments of 2023

Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. Fervo Energy and Google’s next-generation, 3.5-MW