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Energy
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The Magnitude of 24/7 Zero-Carbon Energy
In 2017, Google became the first major company to reach 100% renewable energy through corporate renewables procurement. But it was also the first...
Will Sweden lead the way in hydrogen-powered steelmaking?
Boasting a sea port, an ore mine and lots of renewable energy, northern Sweden is an ideal location for producing hydrogen-powered steel. But...
Business
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This start-up has developed a way for businesses to quickly compost...
Landfills create methane, which is a prominent greenhouse gas. When food waste goes to landfill it releases methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than...
4 ways the circular economy can help heavy industry reduce emissions
Image: Photo by Louis Maniquet on Unsplash The majority of industry emissions comes from 4 material groups: Steel, cement, aluminum, chemicals. Global demand...
Nature
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How scientists are restoring boreal peatlands to help keep carbon in...
Peatlands have been heavily exploited and damaged. Peatlands are vital to slow the effects of climate change, by acting as carbon sinks, writes...
Role of Bats in Our Ecosystems: There 3 Main Benefits
Bats are legally protected across the European Union. In the UK, the first major legislation protecting bats was passed in 1982. The laws...
Policy
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US and China commit to cooperating on climate crisis
The US and China have “committed to cooperating” on the pressing issue of climate change, the two sides said in a joint statement...
Could a Green Party chancellor lead Germany?
Annalena Baerbock, Green Party co-leader, is gearing up for Germany's elections in September Berlin, Germany – The German Green Party has announced...
Sponsored
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Popular Alkaline Brand TEN Alkaline Spring Water Brings Eco-Friendly Aluminum Cans To Retail
Popular Alkaline Brand TEN Alkaline Spring Water Brings Eco-Friendly Aluminum Cans To Retail In an effort to reduce the footprint made by plastic bottles in retail stores (and ultimately, in waterways and landfills), top alkaline brand TEN Alkaline Spring Water has now made their product available via 8-pack aluminum cans in stores around the US. TEN is the first in their category to sell their 10ph premium alkaline water in a can and leads the way in sustainability for the alkaline water industry. The benefits of drinking alkaline water are many, but the amount of plastic used to package food...
Solving the Plastics Problem: Cox Enterprises Invests in Nexus Fuels
Solving the Plastics Problem: Cox Enterprises Invests in Nexus Fuels
Nexus Fuels emerges as world’s first commercial-scale 100% circular waste plastics solution, resolving a critical environmental challenge Atlanta (March 10, 2021) – Nexus Fuels, LLC (Nexus), a leading circular waste-plastics operation, has secured a major investment from Cox Enterprises to accelerate its market expansion. Nexus converts waste plastics, formerly bound for landfills and oceans, back into their original components so they can be used to create new materials. Nexus’ environmentally friendly recycling process can convert waste plastics into virgin plastic precursors and resins that partners, like Shell and Chevron Phillips, can use...
Cox Enterprises Accelerates Sustainability Goals by 10 Years
Cox Enterprises announced on January 21, 2021, that it has accelerated its goal to be carbon and water neutral from 2044 to 2034 as part of the company’s national sustainability program, Cox Conserves. The new Cox Conserves strategy expedites the company’s zero environmental footprint goals by reducing, replacing and recycling within its own operations, along with developing new renewable projects and partnerships to offset impacts.
Since Cox set its original goals in 2013, clean technologies and renewables have advanced,
and the costs associated with these industries have decreased. At the same time, the pace of climate change has led to ever-worsening...
Weekly Blog
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10 questions with Edgar McGregor, the 20-year-old climate activist
10 questions with Edgar McGregor, the 20-year-old climate activist Edgar McGregor is a 20-year-old climate activist who has spent over 600 days cleaning up trash from the Eaton Canyon park, north of Los Angeles on the edge of Angeles National Forest. You’re best known for your clean up in the Eaton Canyon park at the edge of Angeles National Forest. What inspired this initiative? In May 2019, I was climate striking at my local city alongside thousands of youth climate strikers around the world. While I was out there, I was doing it for a couple of hours a day, and I...
The Greenwashing of Earth Day – A Not-so-Happy Post
The Greenwashing of Earth Day - A Not-so-Happy Post
By Grant Brown, Founder, Happy Eco News
The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." - Robert Swan, Author
It has been a long time since I contributed to Happy Eco News with a blog post. Several months in fact. We have had a wonderful mix of artists, scientists, and regular people contribute to this growing body of positivity. This week, I wanted to contribute a meaningful and thoughtful article about or relating to Earth Day. But I can’t do it. This week, it's actually a somewhat angry...
3 – 2- 1 GROW. How Rocket Greens grow in Churchill, Manitoba
3 - 2- 1 GROW. How Rocket Greens grow in Churchill, Manitoba
Guest post by Carley Basler, Sustainability Coordinator at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre I first learned about the hydroponic shipping container while standing around in the airport waiting for a plane to arrive. Like many remote small towns, some of Churchill’s best information exchanges happen while doing just that! It was early fall in 2017 and Churchill was mid-way through its first year without rail access due to some unprecedented spring flooding that rendered its rail link to the south unusable. Political posturing and the extreme cost of the...
Plastic Pollution and Climate Change
Plastic Pollution and Climate Change
Guest post by: Lilly Platt Plastic Pollution is a huge problem for today’s oceans and water systems. It’s one of the most common materials in our economy and amongst the biggest polluters on Earth. It’s found everywhere in the form of plastic bottles, bags, food packaging, clothing, and car parts, etc. Plastic is durable and lasts forever. However, what doesn’t get attention is how plastic pollution affects climate change. Nearly all plastic is made from materials like ethylene and propylene which are made from fossil fuels (mostly oil and gas). The process of extracting and transporting those fuels and...
Disproportionate Power
Disproportionate Power
Guest post by Keroles Riad from Waste Not, Want Not I was born (a very long time ago) with a genetic condition that has required me to spend a day at the hospital every three weeks. It also meant that I grew up constantly being told what it is I can and cannot do. So I have developed a bit of a stubborn streak with a determination to prove people wrong of whatever it is they think limits me. That idea of “disproportionate power” – outsized influence – is very energizing to me. In 2016, I started the “Waste Not,...
Top 6 Reasons to Get Outdoors
Top 6 Reasons to Get Outdoors
Guest post by James Black, of Wilderness, Redefined.
Intro
Life in the pandemic has been hard. Most of us have spent the best part of last year indoors, unable to get out and fully enjoy the great outdoors. But with the summer approaching and the vaccination program off to a good start, we all might be able to get out of our homes and into the wilderness soon. And there are loads of reasons to get out into the backcountry when you can again. There are so many benefits to our mental and physical health that nature can...
How Do We Decarbonize the Food System?
The systems that support growing, shipping and processing food make up one-third of heat trapping gases. How can Agtech help us tackle this...
Feeding a city from the world’s largest rooftop greenhouse
The new greenhouse will accelerate Lufa’s mission to grow food. The world’s largest rooftop greenhouse is in Montreal, Canada. It measures more than...
How Plant ‘Vaccines’ Could Save Us From a World Without Fruit
An orange tree in Florida, where citrus crops are at risk of various plant-targeting diseases. (Credit: Karen Grigoryan/Shutterstock) A future where chocolate, wine...
Regenerative Agriculture To Restore Our Earth
In 35 years, there will be 10 billion people on earth. Our planet is getting full , and unless we’re very careful, its...
Legumes research gets flexitarian pulses racing with farming guidance
Adding the likes of peas, lentils, beans, and chickpeas to your diet, and farming more of them, could result in more nutritious and...
Transportation
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In France, you could soon swap your old car for an electric bike
This new plan is designed to reduce the number of cars on the road for a greener future. France is offering car owners...
Heatherwick Studio reveals Airo car that will clean pollution as it drives
London-based Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its concept for the Airo electric car for IM Motors that will "vacuum up pollutants from other cars"....
Going Greener With Logistics
Going Greener With Logistics
Are you thinking about the ways that you can improve your business by going green? There are a few possibilities worth...
These Dutch cities will allow only zero-emission deliveries by 2025
Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands' cities which already has “milieuzones”, where some types of vehicles are banned. Cities in the Netherlands want to...
Science
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Google’s New Timelapse Shows 37 Years of Climate Change Anywhere on...
Google Earth's latest feature allows you to watch the climate change in four dimensions. The new feature, called Timelapse , is the biggest...
