Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

BusinessGreen sits down with CEO of the International Council of Mining and Minerals to discuss the battery gold rush and the potential for a European sustainable mining boom. The mining industry is an enormous enabler of economic growth that is sustainable, that is environmentally positive," he contends. "The

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Despite market turbulence brought by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 proved to be a formative year for India’s clean energy transition. But the growing adoption of solar, wind and other clean energy technologies doesn’t tell the full story of India’s energy shift. This is the final piece in a three-part series.

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Grist

JANUARY 15, 2020

The 27-mile-long tributary flows through the ruins of abandoned coal mines, which sprawl beneath the southeast part of the state like a labyrinth. The companies that dug the century-old mines are long gone. The creek’s vibrant colors are from “acid mine drainage,” which spills into watersheds nationwide.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 26, 2021

Last week, the Government’s chief planning officer, Joanna Averley, was forced to defend the recent decision to permit a new coal mine in Cumbria. Paul Miner, from CPRE, said: “All coal mines should be refused planning permission, according to current government policy. Let’s hope Westminster doesn’t let us down.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

My work buddy Lucy gets on two stops down, always with a pair of scones, wheeling her bike next to mine in the locker downstairs before joining me in the sunny coach section. I’m for inventing new technologies and investing more in developing cheaper, sustainable energy. First of all, I’m not against technology.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2020

But conservation areas are often vulnerable to illegal logging, poaching, mining, and other activities that threaten biodiversity. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences applies tools from machine learning to these soundscapes to get a better picture of ecosystem health and human activity.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

[Happy New Year! This is my year-end article from Harvard Business Review that I mentioned in my last post (which has many more stories and links). I’ve left out some large stories, because it’s unclear if they’re blips or part of a larger more permanent shift toward sustainability. The Big Stories of 2021. Here we go.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

In short, when it comes to energy, there are two stories unfolding simultaneously. A new report from Clean Energy Canada and Navius Research, The New Reality , explores the energy picture here in Canada over the next decade, revealing Canada’s own diverging energy story. The recent announcement of a $1.3-billion

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2018, Germany appointed a commission drawn from industry, government and civil society to find a broadly acceptable way to close the nation’s substantial coal mining and power plant infrastructure. There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2021

Hang out in the New River Gorge for a few days and you’re likely to meet young rafting guides, middle-aged rafting guides who’ve been navigating the New and Gauley rivers for decades and people over 50 who started as rafting guides and moved up to manage or own recreation outfitter companies.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Tue, 10/06/2020 - 02:11. Effectively, they will mine as much as they can either informally, anywhere that they find it, or working in and around mines that are ostensibly closed or off-limits. And so they're turning to illegal mica mining to put food on the table. How transforming the mica supply chain transforms lives.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Tadeu Carneiro, the company’s CEO, said Boston Metal is “ushering in a new era of metallurgy.” The nine-year-old startup raised $50 million in January from a slew of investors, including the Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures and the venture capital arm of BHP, one of the world’s biggest mining companies.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In 2020, it’s increasingly understood to make good economic sense. s Turnagain mine, while Apple is committed to a 100 per cent-carbon-neutral supply chain by 2030 that will include aluminium produced in B.C. to create lasting jobs and economic resilience. This is happening now. Our homegrown companies are benefiting too.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

The province of New Brunswick leads the nation, with 32 percent of homes heated with heat pumps. percent annually from 2013 to 2020. Alberta, Canada’s sunniest and windiest province, issued a moratorium on new solar and wind power projects last year.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. In 2020, the Arctic as a whole had its warmest year on record since data collection began in 1979. trillion in 2020. By Gail Whiteman and Fred van Beuningen. What does that mean?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2020, Governor John Bel Edwards (D) joined the international Race to Zero Campaign, which aims to reach net zero carbon emissions around the world by 2050. New construction in St. It also alleges that any major hurricane poses a risk of contaminants escaping from the proposed terminal. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Episode 240: Ceres points the way, Beautycounter’s mica makeover Heather Clancy Fri, 10/09/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (4:20). You can read both stories here and here. Stay connected To make sure you don’t miss the newest episodes of GreenBiz 350, subscribe on iTunes.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Benefit #1: CSR presents new business opportunity. Responding to the social challenges and risks of the modern world can open up new opportunities for businesses in emerging markets. Ambuja was able to offer farmland in exchange for new mining terrain. The following example shows how.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But there is hope at Loring: In 2020, researchers discovered that the Micmacs’ hemp plants were successfully sucking PFAS out of the contaminated soil. In addition to PFAS, plants have been used to leach lead from abandoned mines and pesticides from retired orchards. That could entail drying first to reduce the sheer mass, Huff said.

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

A new cohort of early climate tech companies founded at the start of the climate tech boom are now climbing the ladder, but not yet seasoned enough to warrant mega-checks. 🎉 Cumulative: Since the start of 2020, ~2,500 climate tech cos have raised $117B+ of venture funding across 3,332 deals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

However, influential analyst firm BloombergNEF (BNEF) has today attempted to shine some more light on this crucial issue with new research that explores the various net zero scenarios developed by the IEA, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). One can but hope.".

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain Joel Makower Mon, 10/05/2020 – 02:11 First in a two-part series. The mine in question — actually, thousands of them — can be found in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand, just over 200 miles west of the cultural hub of Kolkata.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Walking across her yard, he found a new underground river had formed under a corner of Lenniger’s home, which explained why her land had caved in. Not knowing where else the ghost ice lies, Gottschalk has been nervous about putting in a new septic system. It’s a similar story with roads built in recent decades.

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Econaur

MAY 3, 2022

Let us understand this whole story in 3 questions :-. It was 16,731 million tonnes in 2019 and 15,767 million tonnes in 2020. In 2020, 72% of coal was spent on power generation. At that time, a total of 1,144 billion tonnes of coal was left in the coal mines around the world. In technical terms, it is called coal reserve.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Episode 242: Responsible mining, the politics of clean energy. Fri, 10/23/2020 - 02:00. Stories discussed this week (7:25). Microsoft, Tiffany help carve out new responsible mining standard. Music in this episode by Lee Rosevere: "More On That Later," "Night Caves," "New Day," "Curiosity" and "Sad Marimba Planet".

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

In late March, the Modi government put the country under a strict 21-day lockdown ending April 14, 2020. gigawatts of solar PV installations in 2020. With offices, shops and factories closed due to the pandemic, commercial and industrial power demand has cratered, putting a new strain on the power companies’ financial wellbeing.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Major new report urges policy-makers to embrace demand- and supply-side incentives to drive EV innovation and manufacturing in the UK, or risk trade frictions driving economic and environmental opportunities overseas. And it nods towards possible lithium mining opportunities in Cornwall.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 16, 2020

The electronic waste collection conundrum Heather Clancy Thu, 07/16/2020 – 01:15 The primary reason I started covering the business of sustainability during the 2008 financial crisis wasn’t just because I was laid off from my position as editor of a technology trade publication. But that’s a subject for another essay.) and Samsung.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s a good moment to share the origin story of EDICT , a movement to diversify our climate-tech workforce. It started with a LinkedIn post from Devin Hampton, CEO of Elemental portfolio company UtilityAPI , after George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020. ll tell a quick story. Sharing your thoughts is a brave act.

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Grist

MARCH 9, 2020

Globally, demand for data center services rose by 550 percent between 2010 and 2018, a new study found. In 2018, about 250 global architectural firms said they expected to slash the predicted energy use of their new buildings by nearly half, compared to a 2003 baseline. That’s mainly thanks to improvements in energy efficiency.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 is turning out to be quite the year for Newark, New Jersey-based vertical farming pioneer AeroFarms. The biggest news is that the company is going public. At the same time, it expanded into five new leafy green products: Baby Bok Choy, The New Spinach, Micro Arugula, Micro Broccoli, Micro Kale and Micro Rainbow Mix.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2023

This story is the start of The North Sea Investigations , a multi-year international reporting project on the battle for the future of the North Sea, led by Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow the Money in cooperation with Norwegian broadcaster NRK, Belgian newspaper De Tijd and DeSmog. billion euros Netherlands: 2.6

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Grist

JULY 31, 2020

When Apple announced new climate goals last week, the tech giant revealed that some of its sleek, silvery laptops will include a novel material: “low-carbon” aluminum. The news arrives as the global aluminum industry grapples with rising greenhouse gas emissions. So the biggest carbon challenge is the smelting process itself, she said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From PPE and Presidential elections, to heat pumps and climate anxiety, here are our top ranking stories of the year. To describe 2020 as a rollercoaster year would be an understatement. Here are our top 10 stories from the year, based on the number of readers. The coronavirus pandemic has to date killed 1.77

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Sustainability and business 3.

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