October 30, 2020
Plugging into Amazon’s fleet electrification strategy Mike De Socio Fri, 10/30/2020 - 00:30 When Ross Rachey set out to electrify Amazon’s fleet of last-mile delivery vehicles a few years ago, he thought it would be a matter of matching the company’s needs to the right vehicle on the market. It was not that simple. "We were a little underwhelmed at the vehicles that
...October 29, 2020
Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain Jesse Klein Thu, 10/29/2020 - 01:00 Picture your local salad bar either at your school, grocery store or office. There are many options between the greens, toppings and dressings. At the end of each day, it’s the job of a kitchen worker to perform a "shrink analysis" on each ingredient — manually identifying, weighing
...October 28, 2020
The method harnesses a new type of ultra-efficient catalyst to make low-carbon biodiesel and other valuable complex molecules out of diverse, impure raw materials. The study incorporating the catalyst design is published in Nature Catalysis. Waste cooking oil currently has to go through an energy-intensive cleaning process to be used in biodiesel because commercial production methods can only handle
...October 28, 2020
Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) has launched Green Star Buildings — the first of a new suite of Green Star Future Focus tools. The Green Star sets a new requirement that buildings must be net zero — fully electric, fossil fuel-free and 100% powered by renewables — to achieve the highest possible 6 Star rating. With the biggest overhaul of its Green Star rating system in 18 years,
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October 28, 2020
Be it a house or shop, shipping containers can help you build any structure in an efficient way. Here are 7 innovative ways shipping containers can be used.
October 28, 2020
Carbontech is getting ready for its market moment Heather Clancy Wed, 10/28/2020 - 01:30 It may be a little early to start writing about trends for 2021, but I’m going to do it anyway. What’s on my mind? Carbontech, a category of climate tech I’d love to see break through next year. It's the exciting idea that we can take something that could be considered waste, draw it out of the
...October 28, 2020
Kraft Heinz sustainability chief reflects on 'interdependence' Heather Clancy Wed, 10/28/2020 - 01:00 Food company Kraft Heinz has been relatively quiet about its corporate sustainability strategy in the five years since it was formed through the merger of food giants Kraft and Heinz — stepping out in early 2018 to provide an update. In September, the maker of well-known brands
...October 26, 2020
These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. The challenges facing us are wide-ranging. The way the world produces and consumes food causes
...October 26, 2020
BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea Michael Holder Mon, 10/26/2020 - 00:05 A coalition of oil and gas majors are eyeing up the potential to capture carbon dioxide emissions from ships out at sea, teaming up with global tanker owner and operator Stena Bulk to evaluate the feasibility of technology they claim could play a key role in decarbonizing the hard-to-abate
...October 25, 2020
Engineers at Monash University have devised an improved method to remove potentially deadly bacteria from water using graphitic carbon nitride and sunlight. The international team — led by Professor Xiwang Zhang from Monash University’s Department of Chemical Engineering — combined graphitic carbon nitride with polyethylenimine (PEI) to destroy E. coli and E. faecalis from water
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