3BL Media

JANUARY 31, 2022

That question is anything but hypothetical in scientific laboratories, which present some of the most daunting challenges to decarbonization. Why labs are so difficult to decarbonize. It opened in 2017, and the excess energy generated will pay back the embodied carbon within its structure within 25 years.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Net Zero on Campus: From Principles to Action initiative, a collaborative effort between SDSN, the Climateworks Centre, and Monash University, aims to facilitate the sharing of lessons and resources to accelerate the decarbonization of university campuses around the world.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

In North America, academics and environmentalists have criticized LEED’s approach because developers could game it out, running up their score by adding cosmetic features (e.g., bike parking) that don’t really improve a building’s carbon footprint. ” –Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. “If

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. Rita Steele had planned a West Coast summer road trip as a respite from the demands of her sustainability work at Simon Fraser University. Clearly, he chose wisely.

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