Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

UN water experts say it is time to increase the tapping of Earth’s diverse and abundant unconventional water sources – the millions of cubic kilometres of water held in deep land-based and seabed aquifers, in fog and icebergs, in the ballast holds of thousands of ships, and elsewhere. Ballast water.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Its fulfillment center is run by Goodwill Southern California, which provides jobs to veterans, individuals with disabilities, and other people with barriers to employment who pack and ship gifts. By using plant-based products, ALOHA reduces carbon emissions and water waste while minimizing agricultural land use and mitigating climate change.

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Gail Tverberg

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

According to the anthropologist Joseph Tainter, in his well-known book, The Collapse of Complex Societies , there are diminishing returns to added complexity. I wonder if we are already starting to see simplification in trade, especially international trade, because shipping (generally using oil products) is becoming high-priced.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

The Article 9-compliant fund aims to contribute towards climate change mitigation, while supporting the long-term development of economies through sustainable infrastructure and the provision of clean, affordable energy. SUSI Partners , a Swiss fund management firm with €1.7

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2022

SOPHIA LI: So what are the most effective steps we can take—as individuals that feed into the collective—to slow the rate of climate disruption? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the United Nations is one of the most trusted sources of information we have on the climate.

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Gail Tverberg

JUNE 18, 2021

Instead, world leaders find a different problem, namely climate change, to emphasize above other problems. Conveniently, climate change seems to have some of the same solutions as “running out of fossil fuels.” This bias would be expected to lead to overstated estimates of future climate change.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on U.S. billion barrels of oil, 3 billion gallons that feeds 250 million vehicles in our garages," in addition to gas stations, tanker trucks, refineries, pipelines, wells and petroleum tanker ships. Now picture "7.1

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

The shrivelled Rhine of 2018 became a harbinger of the devastating impact that climate change will have on the backbone of the German economy. Historically, some 40% of the raw materials entering the site do so by freight ships. The river’s water was too warm to effectively cool BASF’s reactors. On the face of it, it is.

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3BL Media

JUNE 29, 2022

The ship wasn’t packed with wealthy tourists, but rather a mix of voyagers from the public, private, and civil sectors—including marginalized and historically excluded individuals. Many of the young people were awarded scholarships to join the expedition. Why is it so important to ensure that young people from around the world see Antarctica?

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

A global coalition fronted by former Vice President Al Gore promises granular insights and data into those sources — down to individual power plants, ships or factories. It’s well-documented that climate change has a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Climate Change. Where did they originate?

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

year-on-year between January and March, and tourist hotspots like Mykonos were overrun with cruise ship visitors this summer. A staggering 895 cruise ships were expected to visit Mykonos and the nearby island of Delos over the summer—a big jump from the 608 ships that docked there last year.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In theory, both the buyer of a product (such as a vehicle), and the various organizations involved with creating the product and shipping it to the end user, will need debt to move the process along. Image similar to ones shown in Eric Chaisson’s 2001 book, Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature.

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Gail Tverberg

OCTOBER 25, 2023

These changes work in the direction of allowing parts of the system to go forward, without being burdened by the less efficient portions. [2] And it cannot prevent climate change. [4] Physicist Francois Roddier writes about this broader kind of evolution in his book, The Thermodynamics of Evolution.

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B the Change

JANUARY 3, 2023

VAXA Takes an Oceanic-Based Approach to the Next Frontier of Food Production As climate change seeps into every aspect of our food chain, including our oceans, there is an imperative to pivot to alternative sources for nutrition to keep up with the future needs of our population.

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EJOLT

AUGUST 23, 2016

It is also used for secondary and university education and for doctoral theses and articles and academic books. With the Paris conference on climate change in December 2015, we saw that states are not able to bring up the courage needed to face the environmental crisis. So, which actors could play a key role?

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A court forced Shell to reduce emissions, an activist investor forced ExxonMobil to replace three board members better suited to fight climate change, and Chevron shareholders voted against their board to achieve faster-cut carbon emissions. We had the “Day of reckoning” for big oil. Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Most people attending my talk reported that they had mostly heard about the issue on the right end of Slide 2: the problem of using too much fossil fuel and related climate change. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov analyzed eight economies that collapsed in their book Secular Cycles. This is a physics issue.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

vehicle fleet, considered crucial to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To say that 2023 is one for the record books is a vast understatement — the year was so out of the norm that you’re forced to go back at least 125,000 years for a point of reference. Climate quitters People who resign from their jobs over concerns about climate change. Do not get Colleen Hoover books.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

has sought to deploy in order to battle climate change, offshore wind has had perhaps the rockiest path in recent years. The largest turbines are the length of football fields and require specially built ships to transport them. Plaisted said that trade unions are reckoning with the fact that “climate change, it’s not a theory.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 31, 2024

When people found out I was going to be in Brussels, invitations for lunch and dinner came out of the woodwork, and people started booking train rides, including two from London. Lengthy conversations on different decarbonization challenges ensued, around the main event itself, the book launch of the second edition.

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