Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

Finding your way in the world of sustainability can be challenging, but there are ways to make yourself stand out and achieve your goals once you've arrived. In 2016, when I had graduated and was looking for a career in sustainability, entry level positions were nearly impossible to find. After all, you have to start somewhere.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. The day itself seemed to pass in a blur of documents and buzzy-sounding initiatives, with little of it underpinned by anything new.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Cheap, clean, reliable baseload power without seasonal storage Summary - The global energy firm Wartsila modeled the least-cost renewables mix for all regions of the world, based on projected technology costs for 2030. The analysis shows that all regions require overbuilding of renewable capacity of up to four times. No seasonal storage required?

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise. Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise. degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

But some forecasts show EV sales slumping up to 43 percent in 2020 year-over-year, so 2020 is sure to be a serious blip in the overall growth story. We need to look past the current downturn to see the long-term growth story more clearly. We need to look past the current downturn to see the long-term growth story more clearly.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

It makes folks living along the coast more vulnerable to tropical storms, hurricanes, and storm surge. Their first foray into this land-making enterprise will take place in the Barataria Basin, a wetland south of the city of New Orleans. Louisiana has never been hard to pinpoint on a map — it’s the only state in the U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

It didn’t make it into many headlines. In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. This piece was originally published by InvestigateWest. Which products could avoid using plastic altogether?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It’s the same story in France, which has a higher proportion of nuclear energy on the grid than any other country in the world. What’s the problem with nuclear energy? Yet across North America and Europe, nuclear can’t seem to get a look-in. China alone accounts for a quarter of the total. Meanwhile in the U.S.,

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

It makes me realise that unwittingly, I have played a role in the past in legitimising being slightly less bad, when we now know it is not enough. It makes me realise that unwittingly, I have played a role in the past in legitimising being slightly less bad, when we now know it is not enough.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

report concluded that achieving international climate goals would be nearly impossible without cleaning up some of what’s already been emitted. report concluded that achieving international climate goals would be nearly impossible without cleaning up some of what’s already been emitted. A lot has changed since then.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 27, 2021

So, aside from the obvious of not accidentally spilling our choice of hot beverage over them, how can we make sure that these precious tools keep going as long as possible? Have a feeling your device is on its last legs and dreading the day you might have to consider buying a new one? Switch your operating system.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Decreased weight means less CO2 emissions and a higher possibility of powering a vehicle with batteries as it would require less energy. MITO has unlocked a new paradigm for manufacturing and a new world of possibilities in lightweight products. You’ve probably heard a grandparent say, “They just don’t make things like they used to”?—?and

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Grist

JULY 14, 2021

You know a heat wave when you feel it — oppressively hot weather that makes you desperate for an ice-cold drink, or better yet, air conditioning. The heat wave was literally off the charts for what climatologists predicted was possible in the Pacific Northwest right now, she said, and it’s changing what models are showing for the future.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

This story is part of Record High , a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. But during Seattle’s heat dome, “it was impossible for me to last a couple minutes” outside. In late June, 2021, a high-pressure atmospheric system settled over Seattle to create an inescapable “ heat dome.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

People have been making every can of beans and square of toilet paper last. It has challenged me to remember a lot of the skill set we don’t often call upon to make from nothing, to repair the broken things around us.". The story of our lives [is] written in our jeans. How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

National Residential Landlords Association complains lack of clarity over government's EPC standards means they are now impossible to meet. Beadle also took aim at the UK's EPC system for rating home heat retention, which he said was "as useful as a chocolate teapot".

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

The experiment sounded innocuous. Early this summer, a group of researchers from Harvard University would fly to Kiruna, a small town of 22,000 in the northern reaches of Sweden. There, with the help of a Swedish space company, they would launch a balloon carrying an instrument-laden gondola into the stratosphere, some 12.5 SCoPEx was no exception.

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Jigar Shah

MAY 14, 2019

As a result, many Americans now make their living with temporary, freelance, or part-time jobs. Also, given that the contractors have to pay for their own business expenses, it feels next to impossible to do something like save for retirement or for your kids’ college tuition when you have to hit next month’s numbers to pay rent.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. Furthermore, the case for electric trucks and buses would seem to be an easy one to make. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve been talking about mutual credit on Lowimpact for a while now – the position is that humanity is on a very destructive path, which will be impossible to get off as long as we have this money system. There wasn’t any decent software around, and it looked like a niche I could make my own – which I have done.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Climate action is at the heart of all 17 SDGs and without proper and immediate action, it is virtually impossible to achieve success in any of the other goals, even those that appear as socio-economic issues – poverty, inequality, and good health and well-being. What is SDG 13? Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. For a while things had been looking up for Charm Industrial. Meehan had lost confidence that Charm could deliver on a large scale. “I

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany — For 150 years, heavy industry has been the lifeblood of the German port of Wilhelmshaven, a hub for shipbuilding, plastics, coal and steel.

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Jigar Shah

MAY 14, 2019

As a result, many Americans now make their living with temporary, freelance, or part-time jobs. Also, given that the contractors have to pay for their own business expenses, it feels next to impossible to do something like save for retirement or for your kids’ college tuition when you have to hit next month’s numbers to pay rent.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

But the growing adoption of solar, wind and other clean energy technologies doesn’t tell the full story of India’s energy shift. But the growing adoption of solar, wind and other clean energy technologies doesn’t tell the full story of India’s energy shift. It is impossible to ignore the role of coal.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Climate action is at the heart of all 17 SDGs and without proper and immediate action, it is virtually impossible to achieve success in any of the other goals, even those that appear as socio-economic issues – poverty, inequality, and good health and well-being. What is SDG 13? Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Plus Germany nuclear U-turn, China drought, sobering wildfire data and all the top green business stories from around the world this year. Activists bemoan slow progress in UN ocean treaty talks. Delegates are behaving like we have another decade for them to keep talking about this," he said. Time is running out for our oceans.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Things that not long ago seemed an environmentalist's pipe dream — net zero supply chains, cheap energy storage, decarbonised aviation and shipping, circular value chains, enlightened investors — now seem not only possible, but inevitable. Our time has finally arrived.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Summarising a document which attempts to grapple with both the immediate economic challenge of Covid-19 and the fiercely complex task of transforming every facet of modern society to put a stop to greenhouse gas emissions, while also assessing the decidedly mixed decarbonisation progress made to date, is therefore a near impossible task.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. Alternative meat, dairy and egg products make up more than half of that, at $2.1 The next big wave in plant-based protein is fake fish.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We’ve been talking about mutual credit on Lowimpact for a while now – the position is that humanity is on a very destructive path, which will be impossible to get off as long as we have this money system. I’d like to make sure the answers make sense to complete beginners. Not all of them – just the sensible ones.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

It seems each story announcing a fresh net zero pledge now sparks outraged warnings on social media that "net zero is not zero" or heartfelt explanations as to why net zero commitments are meaningless 'greenwash' and what is needed is "real zero", like, yesterday. The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect one".

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s according to Anthony Hobley, co-executive director of the Mission Possible Partnership , which aims to drive emissions cuts across all areas of industry. This story was originally published on our sister publication Power Engineering International. 70-plus green steel plants’. 70-plus green steel plants’. Have you read?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A flurry of reports all tell the same story: renewables are transforming the world, but they are not doing it fast enough. What do you do when you are doing great, but it still isn't good enough? Bear with me, because this is an economic and infrastructure question, not a query best unpacked with a therapist. of warming.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2023

The vision “If we want to bring in as many people as possible, then why would we want to build a movement that you have to be perfect to be in?” No single solution is going to solve the climate crisis (which is why some advocates take umbrage with the word “solution” even being applied to climate change).

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

This is not a story about carbon offsetting Nor is this a story about planting trees or cookstoves. This is a story about carbon insetting. Carbon insetting is simple, scalable and perhaps most importantly: almost all vessels can do it without the need for retrofitting or upfront investment costs. Are you a shipowner?

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