Environment + Energy Leader
AUGUST 10, 2022
The Ritz Carlton in Arlington, VA has closed the loop on food waste. The hotel, along with BioGreen360 and Garick, announced the successful 12-month collaboration that has resulted in the development of a 100% circular food waste solution for the hotel. The post Virginia Ritz-Carlton Achieves 100% Food Waste Circularity appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Yale E360
AUGUST 10, 2022
In the Delaware River and other waterways and estuaries across the United States, scientists and conservationists are restoring aquatic vegetation and beds of mussels and oysters to fight pollution and create a strong foundation for healthy ecosystems. Read more on E360 ?.
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Environment + Energy Leader
AUGUST 10, 2022
New, specified search functions will help chemical suppliers and the textile industry find approved chemical products by defining “sustainable attributes” for bluesign approved chemicals. . The post Bluesign Helps Suppliers Find Approved Chemical Products through New Search Functions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 10, 2022
Cleared of pollution and debris, Muskegon again sees lake as a virtue. Pictured on the left prior to restoration in 2018, the Lower Muskegon River site reconnected 53 acres of natural floodplain wetlands to the Muskegon River, a tributary of Muskegon Lake. The restoration was completed in 2021, pictured on the right, after the removal of a historic farm dike and restoration of the wetland area.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Yale E360
AUGUST 10, 2022
Elevated temperatures in the Arctic, which caused massive melting of the Greenland ice sheet during a three-day period in July, also have touched off rapid glacial melting in Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago. Read more on E360 ?.
Energy & the Law
AUGUST 10, 2022
Withrow v. Chevron is another Louisiana legacy lawsuit, this one claiming that defendants Chevron and Vernon E. Faulconer, Inc., and their predecessors, improperly disposed of toxic and hazardous oilfield wastes in unlined earthen pits causing leaks, spills and other surface and subsurface damages and contaminating the soil and groundwater. Defendants’ filed a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss the whole shebang for failure to state a claim.
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Environmental Leader
AUGUST 10, 2022
The energy company will invest more than $174 million in the facility that will help fuel vehicles and machinery at the port. The post Iberdrola Plans Large Green Hydrogen Plant at English Port appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
In an increasingly noisy world, neuroscientists are discovering exactly what kind of silence has the most dramatic impact on your mental health – from flotation tanks to guided meditation – and how much you really need
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 10, 2022
This article on the Lenape Nation’s 2022 Rising Nation River Journey on the Lenape Sipu (Delaware River) first appeared in the Allentown Morning Call on August 10, 2022 -- On Wednesday, a collection of colorful canoes appeared on the horizon of the Lenape Sipu (Delaware River) at Scott Park in Easton, growing larger and clearer by the moment. As the canoers paddled swiftly to shore, their singing and splashing filled the air.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
It is time that rainy nations like the UK got serious about conserving water in a warming world – and that means making behaviour changes, not just relying on technological fixes
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
A Greener Life
AUGUST 10, 2022
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Photo credit: Reuters / David ‘Dee’ Delgado. By Anders Lorenzen. Following the enormous oil and gas company profits unveiled last week, Antonio Guterres , the UN’s Secretary-General reacted angrily. He slammed what he called the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies and their financial backers and urged global governments to tax what he labelled as “excessive profits” to support the most vulnerable people.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
These images, taken from new book The Guests of Ants, reveal the behaviour of myrmecophiles, sophisticated organisms from beetles to flies that infiltrate ant colonies to take advantage of them
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
by Joel E. Correia, University of Florida Climate change is already affecting much of the world’s population, with startlingly high temperatures from the Arctic to Australia. Air pollution from wildfires, vehicles and industries threatens human health. Bees and pollinators are dying in unprecedented numbers that may force changes in crop production and food availability.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
Optimised for fusion research, millimetre-wave beam technology could be adapted to access the heat that lies several kilometres below Earth's surface, says Eugene Linden
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
National Law Center
AUGUST 10, 2022
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. . The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: August 10, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
When it comes to human physiology, behaviour and social interaction, it is time to abandon a 200-year hunt for normal people, argues Sarah Chaney in her new book
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Read the full story in the New York Times. At the lecture halls of the University of Texas or on TV, Kate Biberdorf is working to catalyze more people into careers in science.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
Based on the book by journalist Sheri Fink, this TV mini-series dramatises the shocking stories of health workers and patients whose lives are changed forever as Hurricane Katrina overwhelms a US hospital in 2005, finds Bethan Ackerley
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Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Read the full story at GreenBiz. From May 26 to June 26, the Dutch city of Rotterdam is showcasing the potential of rooftops. The Rotterdam Rooftop Walk connects rooftops through air bridges, offering a vision of the future of cities.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
An experiment using solar concentrators, which focus sunlight to a point, to roast green chillies suggests it may be possible to build portable solar cookers
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Download the document. The Soil Carbon Moonshot spells out a major transformation for the agriculture sector that has so far gone unarticulated and underfunded at the federal level: A farmer-driven research agenda steered by a powerful coalition of policymakers, farmers and ranchers, and innovators to catalyze agricultural climate solutions at scale.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
Thirty five people are known to have been infected by Langya henipavirus in the Shandong and Henan provinces of China between December 2018 and May 2021
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Read the full story at e360. Wild bison, absent from the United Kingdom for thousands of years, are being reintroduced to a forest near Canterbury, England to help restore the woods to their natural state. The Wilder Blean project, a partnership of Wildwood Trust and Kent Wildlife Trust, is returning bison to the West Blean and … Continue reading Gone for thousands of years, wild bison return to the UK.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
Northern Virginia is home to many American Civil War battlefield sites as well as the largest concentration of data centres in the world.
The Applied Ecologist
AUGUST 10, 2022
We are seeking an enthusiastic ecologist with a passion for stimulating dialogue and communication across everyone involved in ecological research and practice to join the team in this voluntary role. Summary of the Role We are looking for an active ecologist with a passion for stimulating dialogue and communication across everyone involved in ecological research and practice.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
Feedback explores an unexpected finding in Kent, while also looking into a Danish team’s experiments with jellyfish and the psychology of waiting around
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Read the full story at Food Navigator. While the benefits of pollinators to crop yield are well known, their effect on crop stability was poorly understood until now. Supporting and enhancing pollinators could help stabilise the production of important crops like oilseeds and fruit, reducing the sort of uncertainty that causes food price spikes, new … Continue reading Bees could be key to reducing fluctuations in food supplies and steadying prices, study suggests.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
When a beaked whale carcass washed up near her home, part of a mass stranding around the region, Mhairi Killin was inspired to launch an artistic challenge to the military's impact in the area
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Download the document. Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a twenty year cycle, and accounts for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Methane emissions reduction has a critical role to play in climate mitigation actions between now and 2040. The importance of methane … Continue reading Methane Reduction Potential in the EU Between 2020 and 2030.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
Wildfires in Alaska have already burned more than three times as much territory as usual, and fire season isn't over – the environmental effects could last decades
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Read the full story in the New York Times. California’s giant sequoias have faced particularly fierce wildfires since 2015, the result of climate change and a lack of frequent fire over the prior century, according to the National Park Service. The imminent threat — which has now reached some of the state’s most exalted trees … Continue reading How to save an ancient, giant tree from a wildfire.
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2022
A robot equipped with AI image recognition can identify and map rubbish on the seafloor to help prioritise clean-up operations towards the most toxic materials
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 10, 2022
Download the document. A digital sustainability strategy should incorporate both the facilities and IT operations, even for colocation operators. This report covers strategies, software tools and metrics that can help drive up IT efficiency.
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