July 31, 2020
Established in 1986, Huon Aquaculture has grown to become a salmon producer that is recognised around the world for the quality of its produce and the ingenuity of its operations. The company is seen as an ethical business and a respected Tasmanian brand — part of a sustainable industry and a company that is focused on the safety of its employees, as well as the welfare of the fish and the wildlife around its
...July 31, 2020
Water is essential for the development and maintenance of successful economies and for preserving human health. Ensuring the ongoing availability of water as an essential resource means that water must be used responsibly and sustainably. Water is a renewable resource, circulating on the planet for many millions of years, but it becomes lost from the water cycle if it is polluted or extracted more quickly than it
...July 30, 2020
Two engineering students at the University of Sydney — Vanathy Arudselvan and Yeeun Cho — have developed a more hygienic, dignified and safer way to dislodge latrine sludge in developing countries, earning them paid internships at GHD. The duo received the GHD Humanitarian Internship Prize presented at the Humanitarian Innovation (Digital) Hackathon hosted by engineering think-tank the
...July 30, 2020
The future of organic coffee: Building a network of support for regenerative agriculture Jean Orlowski Thu, 07/30/2020 - 02:00 Nearly a decade ago, as we took in the lush plant life, clean air and warm sunshine surrounding us during a vacation in Hawaii, my wife, Danielle, and I knew a life shift was happening. A connection to the land — this island — was built on that trip, leading us
...July 30, 2020
Not every household has the same access to clean, efficient energy. Professor Tony Reames has a plan to correct that.
July 29, 2020
A new study expands on the health benefits of RGGI, but more research is needed to evaluate whether they are distributed equitably.
July 28, 2020
Semiconductor firm Applied Materials puts supply chain at center of new commitments Heather Clancy Tue, 07/28/2020 - 02:00 The sustainability ambitions of the world’s largest cloud software companies — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce — have been well-documented. The broad semiconductor industry’s position to date, however, has been less
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July 27, 2020
Wind can come in the form of hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, microbursts or downdrafts. There are high winds and gusts in some instances that last just a few minutes, and there are sustaining winds that may last for days. While wind can be a powerful asset, it can also pose a significant danger at times. On an individual basis, it can be valuable to understand the impact of high winds and how we can best protect our homes
...July 27, 2020
How Cargill’s new science-based water targets go with the flow Joel Makower Mon, 07/27/2020 - 02:11 Cargill, the giant food and ag conglomerate, last week announced a new set of 2030 corporate water targets, the latest to do so among firms in its sector. But this was no me-too kind of endeavor. Rather, it put the company at the front of the pack, going well beyond its own operational
...July 27, 2020
Businesses are living through a period of unprecedented change. Driven by the climate emergency and incoming regulation, plus shareholder, employee and consumer pressure, every business is being challenged with how to become a low-carbon enterprise.Image: Channels: Business StrategyTags: Transform Europe Virtual SeriesTransform: Energy & Carbonclimate
...July 27, 2020
Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments Michael Holder Mon, 07/27/2020 - 00:15 Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon
...July 24, 2020
Closed Loop Partners teams with Walmart, CVS, Target to take on the plastic bag Deonna Anderson Fri, 07/24/2020 - 01:15 Single-use plastic shopping bags are a real problem. They take decades to break down but nearly 100 billion of them are used in the United States every year to cart away goods from retailers. Fewer than 10 percent of those are recycled — often winding up in landfills
...July 24, 2020
Meet Cosmo, a gene-edited calf taking on climate change
July 23, 2020
Concept Environmental Services (Concept) has completed construction of a 112-megalitre Saline Effluent Management System (SEMS) for a key CSG customer. The system consists of two Concept Tanks that each hold up to 56 million litres of brine produced by operations in the area. This project is claimed to be the first of its kind in Australia, which will see a 30% reduction in brine processing time, meaning land
...July 23, 2020
Melbourne’s La Trobe University is on track to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2029 with the completion of a solar energy project at its Bundoora Campus. The solar system features 7500 solar panels on roofs around the campus in Melbourne’s north, which will generate 2.5 MW of clean, renewable electricity. The project is a cornerstone of La Trobe’s Net Zero Plan to reach net zero carbon
...July 23, 2020
A study that will explore how to manage unstable and weak parts of the electricity grid has just received funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). The Grid Innovation Hub at Monash University has received $495,680 in funding to conduct a desktop study that explores issues and strategies associated with connecting renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind and battery projects
...July 22, 2020
While more and more companies are focused on sustainable entrepreneurship and the fair and inclusive economic growth of the global economy, there is still a trend in the ready-made garment industry of companies moving their production to new markets with lower production costs. The largest, not necessarily the most sustainable, economic growth can be seen in Southeast Asia. The pressure on raw materials and
...July 22, 2020
Nike, Starbucks, Mercedes, Unilever, and others join Microsoft in the Transform to Net Zero initiative
July 22, 2020
UNSW Sydney researchers have found that man-made reefs — in conjunction with the restoration or protection of natural habitat — can increase fish abundance in estuaries. The researchers installed six artificial reefs in each estuary studied, finding that overall fish abundance increased up to 20 times in each reef across a two-year period. The research — funded by the NSW
...July 21, 2020
Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Carnegie Mellon University have designed a new class of solid electrolytes that could facilitate the wider electrification of transportation, including electric aircraft and long-range electric cars. Battery endeavours and the dendrite dilemma To design a rechargeable battery that can power electric vehicles (EVs) for hundreds of kilometres on a single charge,
...July 21, 2020
Reducing waste is a critical environmental concern. Waste ends up polluting the environment, having a significant impact on plants and animals and contributing to climate change. Apart from ecological concerns, waste also has an impact on the economy. Once waste is sent to landfill, it is a dead asset. A circular economy, where items are recycled and re-used, creates jobs and ensures assets stay in the
...July 21, 2020
We asked Grist readers to share the customs, habits, and practices that taught them how to reuse, recycle, and waste less.
July 20, 2020
8 cities share how racial justice is embedded into their climate plans Jesse Klein Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:00 As COVID-19 rampages through vulnerable minority populations with tragic consequences, and protests for racial justice surge among a similar demographic, city climate planners see a renewed focus on climate justice. The pandemic, in some ways, has been a trial run for the
...July 20, 2020
"It wasn't supposed to work."
July 17, 2020
The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems Nicole Pamani Fri, 07/17/2020 - 00:15 Agricultural waste from food crops either is traditionally left to rot or is burned, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. About 270 million tons of banana waste are left to rot annually, and in India, 32 million acres of rice straw are burned. Circular
...July 16, 2020
Honorary Associate Professor Mark Diesendorf and Professor Tommy Wiedmann analysed dozens of studies on renewable electricity systems in regions where wind and/or solar could provide most of the electricity generation in future. Their findings reveal that transitioning to renewable energy will reap environmental and long-term economic benefits, with the possibility of energy return on energy invested
...July 16, 2020
The electronic waste collection conundrum Heather Clancy Thu, 07/16/2020 - 01:15 The primary reason I started covering the business of sustainability during the 2008 financial crisis wasn’t just because I was laid off from my position as editor of a technology trade publication. Quite simply, I had become obsessed with the tech industry’s then-blasé attitude about
...July 15, 2020
Whenever and wherever you need to check a pH, conductivity or oxygen value, you need to obtain reliable measured values that allow you to take any necessary remedial measures quickly, to ensure that your process continues to run at an optimum level. Learn about a mobile innovation that measures pH/ORP, conductivity and oxygen with the highest signal reliability. Discover how to establish immediately what
...July 15, 2020
Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their
...July 14, 2020
Activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez knows a thing or two about bringing people together.
July 13, 2020
As Covid-19 forced countries around the world into lockdown, grounding airlines and closing factories, global energy consumption plummeted. Demand dropped by 3.8% in the first quarter, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), which predicted that the figure would be 6% by the end of the year – equal to the entire energy needs of India, the world’s third-largest
...July 13, 2020
As wind and solar continue to grab the headlines, it’s easy to forget that hydropower remains the world’s largest form of renewable energy, contributing around 70% of all green electricity. The trio of China, North America and Brazil remain the world’s biggest producers, and last year saw the latter open the colossal Belo Monte project. Capable of generating 11,233MW and providing
...July 13, 2020
An unexpected breakout year for the social side of ESG Mike Hower Mon, 07/13/2020 - 01:30 About six months ago, I wrote that 2020 would be a pivotal year for environmental, social and governance (ESG), and that what happens this year and over the next decade could determine the next century. While it would be the world’s biggest understatement to say 2020 isn’t turning out the way we
...July 13, 2020
A CFO’s take on climate and risk management Vincent Manier Mon, 07/13/2020 - 01:00 Just a couple of months into 2020, the world was amid significant discussion about the core purpose of businesses, led by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calling for corporate America to take control of its carbon footprint and major companies, including Microsoft and Delta, making ambitious zero-carbon
...July 13, 2020
The purchase is an “important baby step” that could help boost demand for sustainable aviation fuels.
July 12, 2020
GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies? Joel Makower Sun, 07/12/2020 - 17:56 For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and
...July 10, 2020
20 must-read books about food systems Danielle Nierenberg Fri, 07/10/2020 - 00:50 With record high unemployment, a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages, the world as we know it is changing. But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food
...July 9, 2020
Electricity could soon be used to clean up heavily contaminated industrial wastewater streams. A team of engineers from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney developed an electrochemical oxidation process, with the aim of cleaning up complex wastewater that contained a toxic combination of chemical pollutants. “Our study, published in Algal
...July 9, 2020
SA Water’s new Murray Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant has received an ‘excellent’ design rating from the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA), with the score of 72 reported to be the highest design rating to date for a water or wastewater project in Australia. With the ability to process up to 4.5 million litres of sewage a day, the plant replaces the previous
...July 7, 2020
Activists in New Mexico defend the relationship between people, land, and seeds.
July 7, 2020
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. In Utqiagvik, Alaska, Inupiat people say that change is a part of life.
July 6, 2020
You might think cars and other forms of transportation in a big city like Vancouver, BC, would be responsible for the lion’s share of carbon emissions. You’d be wrong.
July 6, 2020
True million-mile batteries are likely to outlast whatever cars they’re built for, meaning their arrival could dramatically impact both second-use markets and battery recycling.
July 5, 2020
The Australian Government will invest $190 million in resource recovery infrastructure to transform the nation’s waste and recycling capacity — a huge milestone for recycling, according to the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR), the national peak body for the $1.5 billion industry that employs 50,000 Australians. The Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) is set to generate $600 million
...July 2, 2020
Airlines: Give us a break! UN: Done.
July 2, 2020
From bike protests to staggered commute times, here’s how things might (literally) go in the future.
July 2, 2020
The City of Sydney has switched to 100% renewable electricity, generated from wind and solar farms in regional NSW. All of the City’s operations — including streetlights, pools, sports fields, depots, buildings and the Sydney Town Hall — will now be run on renewable electricity. The green energy deal — valued at over $60 million —is reported to be the biggest of its kind by a
...July 2, 2020
The City of Sydney has switched to 100% renewable electricity, generated from wind and solar farms in regional NSW. All of the City’s operations — including streetlights, pools, sports fields, depots, buildings and the Sydney Town Hall — will now be run on renewable electricity. The green energy deal — valued at over $60 million —is reported to be the biggest of its kind by a council in Australia. The
...July 2, 2020
A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience Alec Appelbaum Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15 What would you do if the cause that lights your day turned out to be trapping fellow citizens in the dark? For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible
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July 1, 2020
With their sleekly designed refill stations dispensing beverages and household soaps, Vancouver-manufactured Drinkfill and Soapstand are positioned to make zero-waste living accessible to millions of people around the globe. I sat down with the company’s CEO, 31-year-old Andy Chou, to learn about his ambitious goal of having hundreds of thousands of stations installed in major urban centres
...July 1, 2020
Critics say that the company is using deceptive accounting techniques to distract from its increasing emissions.
July 1, 2020
The Covid-19 crisis has provided brands with a rare opportunity to reset their supply chain strategy and create a plan for achieving their recycling goals. Plastic waste is a concern for many businesses, especially in the packaging industry, where “branded litter” flows into ocean-bound waterways at an unprecedented rate of almost a truckload per
...July 1, 2020
Mapping the deep: A new age of exploration Dawn Wright Wed, 07/01/2020 - 02:00 Did you know that we have far more accurate maps of the moon, Mars and Venus than we do of our own ocean? It wasn’t until 2017 that we were able to help advance the exploration of the world’s ocean with the launch of the world’s first 3D digital map. For the first time, the new developments in mapping
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