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Research Shows Metaverse Could Significantly Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Environment + Energy Leader

According to a Cornell study, the metaverse can greatly contribute to reducing business travel, a major carbon emitter as well as reduce transportation and commercial energy usage, transforming energy distribution.

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Algae-Based Biofuel May Have Bigger Carbon Footprint Than Diesel, Analysis Shows

Yale E360

New research using real-world data casts doubt on the energy efficiency of diesel alternatives that come from phytoplankton.

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Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Introduces Project ESG Lake

Environment + Energy Leader

The tool adheres to new ESG reporting standards to help businesses and organizations keep on top of growing need for up-to-date data especially with growing regulatory demands.

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CEQ and Permitting Reform

Legal Planet

In the recent debt ceiling law, Congress extensively revamped NEPA, the law governing environmental impact statements. An obscure White House agency, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), will have the first opportunity to shape the interpretation of the new language. Much of the language in the new law is poorly drafted or vague, making CEQ’s role all the more important.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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LyondellBasell, AFA Nord Partner for Recycling Flexible Packaging Waste

Environment + Energy Leader

This collaboration represents a significant step toward contributing to a circular economy and increasing the availability of flexible packaging applications.

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UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth

New Scientist

Waters around the UK and Ireland have been classified as experiencing a category 4 (extreme) marine heatwave, as the North Atlantic ocean continues to see extraordinary warmth

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Machine learning helps researchers identify hit songs with 97% accuracy

Frontiers

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Predicting hit songs is notoriously difficult. Researchers have now applied machine learning (ML) to high-frequency neurophysiologic data to improve hit song prediction accuracy. They showed that if ML was applied to neural data collected while people listened to new music, hit songs could be predicted with close-to-perfect accuracy.

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World Bank Report Calls for Reform of Environmentally Impactful Subsidies

Environment + Energy Leader

Annually, countries spend six times more on subsidizing fossil fuel consumption than their commitments under the Paris Agreement.

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Could Endometriosis Be Caused by Bacteria? Study Offers Fresh Clues

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Global EV Supply Equipment Market to Value $484 Billion by 2032

Environment + Energy Leader

Recent report projects EVSE market size will grow from $37.3 billion in 2022 to $484.2 billion by 2032, led by the commercial sector and onboard charging.

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

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.

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We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Eighth Annual Environment+Energy Leader Solutions Summit Begins in One Month

Environment + Energy Leader

The 8th Annual Environment + Energy Leader Solutions Summit is one month away, and registration is ongoing for the virtual event.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.19.23

PA Environment Daily

Are You Telling Your Story? House holds Regular Session June 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule Senate holds Regular Session June 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TUESDAY 9:00: Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee hearing on solar energy’s impact on Pennsylvania ratepayers.

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Kids Need More Places to Play, Not Fat Shaming

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Shaping a Resilient Future: Climate Impact on Vulnerable Populations

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.

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Canada’s caribou protection delays bring more forest degradation

NRDC

Canada gives Ontario another year to degrade at-risk caribou habitat, taking it further away from international promises to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.

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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

New Scientist

Sara Imari Walker, who developed Assembly Theory with chemist Lee Cronin, explains how the theory's definition of life might help us find it on other planets

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June 19 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

The June 19 PA Environment Digest is now available. Click Here To View Or Print The Entire June 19 PA Environment Digest 67 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic Citizens Advisory Council Presentations Highlight New Center Of Environmental Excellence At DEP To Improve Permitting Efficiency, Deliver Best In Class Service, Share Results; Environmental Justice; More DEP Declares Statewide Dro

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Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a pure element

New Scientist

Two independent teams of researchers found that putting the silvery metal scandium under extreme pressure makes it into a superconductor at a temperature higher than any other element on its own

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Sustainability at Retail

Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.

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The GIANT Company, Keep PA Beautiful Award 23 Healing The Planet Grants To Support Food Waste Prevention, Reduction, Recovery Projects

PA Environment Daily

On June 16, The GIANT Company in partnership with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful , announced the award of $300,000 to 23 recipients of its 2023 Healing the Planet Grant Program. The grants support projects that address food waste prevention, reduction, and recovery across The GIANT Company’s operating area. The recipients were announced at an event at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Cumberland County., which received $20,000 to complete an anaerobic digester project for conversion of community food

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UK’s first deep geothermal project for 36 years opens at Eden Project

New Scientist

A 5-kilometre-deep well is supplying heat to the Eden Project visitor attraction in Cornwall, but despite the UK’s significant resources, it lags behind other European countries in exploiting geothermal energy

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Garfield Community Farm In Pittsburgh Hosting June 30-July 1 Workshop On Design, Implementation Of Food Forests & Perennial Agriculture

PA Environment Daily

The Garfield Community Farm is hosting a two-day in-person Workshop on the Design and Implementation of Food Forests & Perennial Agriculture on Small to Large Acreages on June 30-July 1 at 509 Wicklow Street in Pittsburgh. Food forests are created when we mimic natural forests for our gardens, orchards and farms. Unlike an orchard, a food forest is a multilayered perennial system where ground cover crops, shrubs, vines, fungi, and trees all work together to support each other and produce foo

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Solar-powered fuel cell recycles plastic waste and carbon dioxide

New Scientist

By combining a solar fuel cell that converts carbon dioxide into fuel with a plastic recycling system, researchers can create sustainable fuels and useful chemicals

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Earth911 Podcast: Mike Anderson Explains Passive Design Solutions for Net-Zero Housing

Earth 911

In the industrial era, home is where the carbon is. The built environment accounts for. The post Earth911 Podcast: Mike Anderson Explains Passive Design Solutions for Net-Zero Housing appeared first on Earth911.

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Ancient reptiles' long necks made them vulnerable to decapitation

New Scientist

Extremely long necks probably helped ancient marine reptiles ambush prey in murky waters, but also made them easy targets for decapitation by predators

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Poems: 'The Southern Lights at –50° Fahrenheit' and 'Lake Vostok'

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Juneteenth Reflections on Climate Justice

NRDC

Honoring Juneteenth requires us to apply commitment and creativity to directing today's unprecedented federal investments toward repairing past harms.

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The University of Nova Gorica forms publishing agreement with Frontiers? 

Frontiers

The University of Nova Gorica has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible University of Nova Gorica researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount. The University of Nova Gorica supports its researchers in making their research more widely available.

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Quantum Light Experiment Proves Photosynthesis Starts with a Single Photon

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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University of Hertfordshire forms publishing agreement with Frontiers – JISC national open access deal? 

Frontiers

We would like to announce that the University of Hertfordshire has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers.  This deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research.  The University of Hertfordshire supports its researchers in making their research more widely available.

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University Library of Wuppertal forms publishing agreement with Frontiers

Frontiers

University Library of Wuppertal has formed an institutional partnership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible University of Wuppertal researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 5% partnership discount. The University Library of Wuppertal supports its researchers in making their research more widely available.

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Rothamsted Research forms publishing agreement with Frontiers – JISC national open access deal

Frontiers

We would like to announce that Rothamsted Research has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers.  This landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research.  Rothamsted Research supports open access publishing by covering Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Rothamsted Research who wish to publish in any Fronti

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