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- 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.
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Yearly Archives: 2014
Battery Storage with Solar PV: The Next Logical Step
With solar installations continuing to grow in the residential, commercial and utility segments, one of the biggest criticisms of solar technology — that it is an intermittent source of power and does not generate electricity once the sun has set — is now coming up against the benefits and values of combining battery storage with solar PV systems. Combining banks of batteries with solar systems has primarily been an application occurring in the off grid market for those buyers living in more remote areas who have not had access to centralized electricity grid service.
The market for combining battery storage with solar has historically remained small due to, among other things, a lack of integration of varying parts of solar with storage systems. Another reason for the market’s small size is the belief that electricity pricing from electric utilities will remain reasonable and power from the grid will remain reliable. Continue reading
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Enel Moves Hybrid Renewables Forward Again with World’s First Biomass and Geothermal Project
Italy’s Enel Green Power is entrenching itself as a global leader in hybrid renewables engineering and construction with another announcement of a global first. In November, the company revealed that it would build a €15 million, 5-MW biomass plant to boost the Cornia 2 geothermal plant’s 13-MW capacity in Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Tuscany, as “the first plant in the world to use biomass to heat geothermal steam and boost the energy efficiency and output of the geothermal cycle.” Continue reading
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Climate change skeptics protested with Green march in New York
Manhattan’s flood of green protesters had climate-change skeptics seeing red Sunday on 21st of September 2014.
“Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn’t even use a trash can,” tweeted a disgusted @chelsea_elisa, along with a photo of an overflowing trash can in Manhattan, after tens of thousands of marchers invaded the city on fleets of smog-producing buses.
Legions of demonstrators frustrated by international inaction on global warming descended on New York City on Sunday, marching through the heart of Manhattan with a message of alarm for world leaders set to gather this week at the United Nations for a summit meeting on climate change. Continue reading
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A Natural Herbal Remedy Could Be Your Answer
Natural herbal remedies are drawing the attention of many traditional medical practitioners to rapidly recognize the ability of the hundreds of thousands of known herbs that have the ability to treat and prevent various human and animal illnesses, as well as properties that can enhance mental attitude, appearance, and performance. Continue reading
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