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Green news- Limit corporate influence, nonprofits tell GHG Protocol and other standard-setters A coalition of advocacy groups has asked standards bodies to do a better job of handling conflicts of interest. The post Limit corporate influence, nonprofits tell GHG Protocol and other standard-setters appeared first on Trellis.
- Sustainable AI: Tools, frameworks and best practices in 2026Assess water risks from AI power consumption; opt for 'lighter AI models'; a real-time view of Claude coding emissions. The post Sustainable AI: Tools, frameworks and best practices in 2026 appeared first on Trellis.
- What to do when your CEO is planning for the wrong decadeToo many executives still treat climate disruption as a temporary nuisance when it has already become a permanent operating condition. For sustainability leaders, that misread hurts twice. The post What to do when your CEO is planning for the wrong decade appeared first on Trellis.
- Investors are ignoring the biggest source of data-center water useLenders that finance data centers screen for the water drawn on site — but that’s only a drop in the bucket. The post Investors are ignoring the biggest source of data-center water use appeared first on Trellis.
- Long-time Ceres CEO Mindy Lubber to step down in 2027Between now and next fall, her schedule will be filled with meetings about the massive U.S. data center buildout. The post Long-time Ceres CEO Mindy Lubber to step down in 2027 appeared first on Trellis.
- Limit corporate influence, nonprofits tell GHG Protocol and other standard-setters
Daily Archives: 22/04/2012
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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