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- Half-truths and hidden lies: How large corporations undermine climate actionCompany silence is hurting public perception and policy momentum. The post Half-truths and hidden lies: How large corporations undermine climate action appeared first on Trellis.
- How L’Oreal links environmental goals to new product innovationThe cosmetics company relies on bio-based ingredients such as plants and minerals for 66 percent of its formulations. The post How L’Oreal links environmental goals to new product innovation appeared first on Trellis.
- Climate-friendly wooden buildings rise across U.S. and EuropeThe year 2025 is “pivotal” for mass timber construction, which is growing at around 20 percent a year. The post Climate-friendly wooden buildings rise across U.S. and Europe appeared first on Trellis.
- eBay’s first sustainability lead to head NYU’s sustainable business programAmy Skoczlas Cole has more than three decades of nonprofit and corporate experience in tech, media, agriculture and land management. The post eBay’s first sustainability lead to head NYU’s sustainable business program appeared first on Trellis.
- Survey says: North America lags the rest of the world on value-chain data
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Home Solar Systems: Worth the Cost?
Humanity has acknowledged the power of the sun since prehistoric times, awed by the glowing orb whose presence creates day and whose absence plunges the world into darkness.
For all our advances in science and technology, most of the power from the sun still eludes us. NASA reports that we use only one ten-thousandth of the sun’s energy.
Photovoltaic (PV) solar electrical systems offer new and ever-changing ways to harness that energy. The term “photovoltaic” literally means light-electricity.
In 1839, French physicist Edmond Becquerel discovered that sunlight could produce an electric current. Another century would pass before scientists fully understood that this process happens at the atomic level. Albert Einstein’s only Nobel Prize was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect. By 1958, the space program was using solar cells. Continue reading
Small enterprises: Shift to green economy underway, but not at full speed yet
According to the Eurobarometer survey on “SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets”, 37% of EU SMEs have at least one full or part-time green employee. Green jobs are largely created in SMEs as opposed to large firms: In 2012, 1 in 8 employees of small and medium-sized firms had a green job or almost 13% of all SME jobs.
In large firms it was only 1 in 33 equivalent to 3% of all large company jobs. Green jobs in SMEs are also estimated to expand dynamically with a rate of 35% in the next 2 years. Continue reading
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EU to keep carbon tax on airlines, but for how long?
The European Union will maintain its carbon tax imposed on airlines operating in its airspace, despite retaliatory trade measures by China.
As long as an international policy on carbon emissions by airlines is not found, the “EU will stick to its own ETS system”. The carbon tax imposed on airlines by the European Union came into effect on January 1, but carriers will begin receiving bills only in 2013 after this year’s carbon emissions have been assessed. Continue reading
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