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Your house could become a rechargeable cement battery. Here’s how
Home sweet home? Turning your home into a battery just came closer to reality. Rechargeable cement batteries could allow for whole sections of multi-storey...
10 States With the Best Tax Incentives for Solar Energy
Transitioning to solar power can help homeowners save loads of money, especially in the long run. Over time, monthly savings on utility bills...
Business
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Compostable Products: Industry Initiatives & Optimal Choices
Making informed composting decisions requires insight into how compostable products are made. In Are Compostable Products the Best Choice? , we looked at...
IKEA launches “accessible and affordable” subscription for renewable energy in Sweden
Furniture retailer IKEA is branching out to become a renewable energy supplier with its Strömma subscription service, which is set to bring wind...
Nature
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Venomous Sea Snakes That Charge Divers May Just Be Looking for...
Olive sea snakes are among the largest marine snake species and sometimes make contact with divers. Numerous scuba divers in places like Australia’s...
400-year-old ‘Muga dhambi’ is one of the largest and oldest corals...
The massive coral colony "Muga dhambi" is one of the largest and oldest of its kind in the Great Barrier Reef. (Image credit:...
Policy
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Colorado passes embodied carbon legislation
It is unlikely that you know how much carbon was produced by making your driveway. But if you did, you might think about ways...
Why rural America is key to climate change policy
It's time for climate policy to come to rural America This article originally appeared on WRI . Many rural counties in the United...
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“That was a little bit of a wake-up”: Baltic countries have more litter than you may expect
“That was a little bit of a wake-up”: Baltic countries have more litter than you may expect Clean Games Baltic Cup unites them in a volunteer cleanup competition from 18th to 26th of September. For three years now Baltic countries have gotten together to participate in the Clean Games Baltic Cup which has been held annually on the World Cleanup Day. The difference from an ordinary cleanup is that participants from different Baltic cities compete in waste collecting and sorting and earn game points for the amount of garbage collected. This year competitions are going to be held in 10 countries. Poland,...
EarthEcho International 2021 Youth Leadership Summit
EarthEcho International 2021 Youth Leadership Summit EarthEcho International is uniting hundreds of young people, ages 13-25, from around the world, for learning, networking, and collaboration to restore and protect our ocean planet. Join EarthEcho founder, Philippe Cousteau Jr., in building a global youth movement and register yourself or a young person you know for the 2021 Youth Leadership Summit. This 6th annual FREE event connects participants virtually over 2 days for workshops, seminars, art projects and more! Leveraging EarthEcho's global network of scientists, policy leaders, influencers, and youth change-makers, the focus of the 2021 Youth Leadership Summit builds from a year...
NetBit’s 7 Key Eco Focus Areas in the Lifecycle of a PSU
NetBit’s 7 Key Eco Focus Areas in the Lifecycle of a PSU When designing a power supply unit, it is important to examine the keys areas within a PSU lifecycle from design to disposal. At NetBit, our eco-design philosophy addresses 7 focus areas, including:
1/ Design
Design optimization is vital to eco-design and holds the potential to have the biggest positive effect on the environment. By matching the power output and increasing efficiency you can save a huge quantity of wasted power, thus cutting down CO2 emissions over the total product lifetime. Moreover, there are further positive impacts for optimizing power and using lower nominal output, including: smaller size, fewer materials,...
NetBit Electronics to Use 100% Recyclable Bulk Packaging
NetBit Electronics to Use 100% Recyclable Bulk Packaging NetBit Electronics (the only major power supply company that has an exclusive focus on customer premises equipment (CPE)) has made a commitment to now only use 100% recyclable bulk packaging from sustainable sources, designed to optimize shipping efficiency and to help their customers reduce C02 emissions. NetBit has already introduced a number of eco-measures for bulk packaging such as vegetable-based inks, and non-bleached kraft cardboard and replacing commonly used plastic tapes with paper-based alternatives. Moreover, NetBit is also developing new packaging designs for SUP-free transportation to meet international packaging standards. By incorporating innovative paper technologies that...
New Report Reveals Cox Enterprises Has Invested Nearly $1 Billion in Sustainability and Cleantech
New Report Reveals Cox Enterprises Has Invested Nearly $1 Billion in Sustainability and Cleantech Collective Impact Report details investments in COVID-19 relief grants, accelerated sustainability goals and commitments to social justice and human rights Cox Enterprises released Making Our Mark, its collective impact report, which details the company’s investment of nearly $1 billion in sustainable businesses and technologies, and more than $191 million donated to or invested in communities. The report also highlights how the James M. Cox Foundation's quick response to provide support, relief and $13.8 million in grants and donations during the pandemic positively impacted hospitals, individuals and families throughout its communities. “We will continue to uphold our tradition of doing the right thing, taking care of our employees, serving our customers and improving the lives of everyone...
Weekly Blog
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Playing with your Food can Reduce Your Carbon Impact
Playing with your Food can Reduce Your Carbon Impact
By Devon M. Whalen, co-founder of Green Whale The impact of the food industry on the climate has been a hot topic lately, as the food industry produces more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry! Whether it’s from this realization or from another factor, today’s statistics indicate that a growing number of individuals are adopting more eco-conscious diets. In the US, the number of vegans has increased more than 500% since 2014, from 1% of the population to 6% of the population. Vegans exclude all animal products from their diet and do...
Bermuda Stepped Roofs and Cisterns: John Gardner and the Possibility of Architectural Transformation as a Tool for Water Supply
Bermuda Stepped Roofs and Cisterns: John Gardner and the Possibility of Architectural Transformation as a Tool for Water Supply
Guest post by: Melina Sempill Watts
In Bermuda, the islands are sprinkled by buildings that look like cakes topped by white frosting. The aesthetic enchantment is incidental because at heart, these stepped white limestone roofs and cistern pairings are built to capture rainwater for domestic use. Consider that Bermuda has 181 islands, over 71,000 people, half a million tourists per year and no major natural water sources. For over 400 years, it is these fairy-tale pretty white stepped roofs that have made on island human...
Pro-environment Discourse by Conservative Leader is Sign of Progress in Canada
Pro-environment Discourse by Conservative Leader is Sign of Progress in Canada Guest post by: Alex Tyrell, Leader of the Green Party of Quebec While the Conservative Party of Canada has been well known for their denial of climate science, their support for the oil and gas industry, opposition to a carbon tax, bashing of the Paris Accord and Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol their messaging under leader Erin O’Tool has changed dramatically. After years of long repetitive speeches in parliament about the « job killing carbon tax » their new leader has abandoned this messaging and adopted a carbon pricing...
Student Activists are Re-Wilding their Campus Landscapes
Student Activists are Re-Wilding their Campus Landscapes Guest Post by: Christie Jones and Rose Williamson students involved with Herbicide Free Campus You’ve probably heard of DDT, a synthetic chemical popularized in the 1940s for killing unwanted insects. Most high school American History courses touch on marine biologist Rachel Carson and her groundbreaking 1962 book titled Silent Spring, which documented the adverse effects of widespread pesticide application—especially DDT. Carson’s work revealed the true and detrimental impacts of pesticides on humans and the environment, lighting a fire amongst the American people. By 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to research and...
Reducing Waste – One Outfit at a Time
Reducing Waste - One Outfit at a Time Guest post by: Jamie D'Souza, Content Manager at Happy Eco News I used to play this silly game when I was younger, where I would go through everything I was wearing that day and identify which stores I had gotten each item from – the more stores the better. Today I play a similar game, where I identify which of the items of clothing that I’m wearing are secondhand. You know it’s a good day when the entire outfit has been previously loved! I have to admit, I wasn’t always a fan of secondhand...
Kids Against Climate Change: A Website for Kids (and the Adults They Love & Admire)
Kids Against Climate Change: A Website for Kids (and the Adults They Love & Admire) Guest post by: Kottie Christie-Blick, Climate Change Education Consultant and Instructor at University of San Diego, California Parents and teachers, picture the last few weeks of the school year before summer vacation. Classrooms are hot. Children are restless. Everyone is so DONE. However, a few years back, in 2015, my students were focused and driven in those final weeks of the school year. They had been learning about climate change, understood its implications (in a basic sort of way), and had been talking to their families about...
The plant-based transition
The 'Flower Burger'. The National Food Strategy is a huge opportunity to transform England's food system. England took a major step towards healthier...
Sustainable agriculture is the future of farming – here’s why
filmstudio / Getty Images It’s time to burst the bubble of the rural-urban divide: When it comes to competing against forces of gentrification...
Aquaponics: The future of agriculture?
Like a shimmering purple spaceship, the glowing greenhouse stands in the middle of an old dairy factory in an Eindhoven industrial park in the Netherlands. It can't...
12 Creative Ways to Use Citrus Peels
As much as we love composting, citrus peels are too valuable to be tossed . Lemons, limes, grapefruits, oranges, clementines, or any of...
News Structures & Equipment Québec urban farm to use horizontal rotary growing technology
Gigrow horizontal rotary system. Gigrow Urban Farms is about to construct its first urban operation using horizontal rotary growing technology. A new Québec...
Transportation
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Towards a sustainable future for aviation in Asia Pacific
Aviation Fuel™ for example, offers up to 80% reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) compared to conventional fossil jet fuel. The...
West Midlands overtakes London in UK’s electric car charger revolution
The West Midlands has overtaken London as the region with the fastest-growing network of electric car chargers, thanks to a push by Coventry...
Airplanes are terrible for the environment. Could Airbus’s redesign change that?
Air travel is a major contributor to global warming , and emissions from the industry are growing at an alarming rate. It’s become...
Cities Use Public Transit to Make Nature More Accessible
On a recent spring morning, Kamal Adhikari hopped in his Chrysler 200S and made the 30-minute drive from his home in a Seattle...
Science
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4ocean and Poralu Marine present BeBot, the beach cleaning robot
Plastic in the environment has become a circular problem. It’s wasteful during production, often has a limited life-cycle in single-use products and ends...
