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Developers made a bold deal when designing Unilever’s ultra-sustainable HQ
To help reach its goal of being carbon-positive in all operations by 2030, consumer product giant Unilever has transformed its old US headquarters into an ultra-sustainable office park fitted with the latest technology. Throughout the building, 15,000 sensors measure temperature, light, carbon Read More...
A game-changing carbon-capture power plant just passed its first big test
Net Power announced today that it successfully fired up a pilot plant near Houston that takes an entirely new approach to capturing carbon dioxide. The news marks a critical first test for a system that promises an economical path to cutting greenhouse-gas Read More...
Offsetting your emissions can be as simple as adding a penny to your purchases
The emissions from a scoop of ice cream—including everything from the cows to transportation and freezing the product—add up to roughly a quarter of a pound of carbon dioxide. Now if you buy ice cream from a Ben & Jerry’s store in London’s Soho neighborhood, the company will spend a Read More...
Bio-inspired membrane captures 90 percent of CO2 in power plant emissions
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new biologically inspired membrane that can capture carbon dioxide from power plant smoke. Sandia fellow and University of New Mexico regents’ professor Jeff Brinker said, “Our inexpensive method follows nature’s lead in our Read More...
Carbon capture technology may finally take off via the corn industry
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is widely believed to be necessary to save the climate, but the technology is still in a fledgling state, with relatively few large-scale installations around the world. But fitting corn-ethanol refineries with carbon-storing technologies would be a Read More...
China’s massive investment into the environment is paying for itself
China has invested billions and billions into cutting its own greenhouse gas emissions in the last few years. A new MIT study shows the country stands to benefit from this not just environmentally, but financially as well. According to the study, China will net around $339 billion in health savings Read More...
The search for renewable energy storage just had a vital breakthrough
If we want to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, we have to become smarter about the way we store the energy we make from renewable sources. Our current batteries aren’t capable of storing mass quantities of energy that can be used on-demand, but that may soon change thanks to an incredible Read More...
Instead of storing carbon, researchers want to convert it into fuel
Currently, carbon capture typically involves grabbing carbon-dioxide emissions from sources like coal-fired power plants, then storing them underground so they can’t enter the atmosphere and heat the planet. But wouldn’t it be so much better if we could actually use the carbon we captured for Read More...
The European carbon market is cutting emissions across all industries
Thirteen years after Europe’s carbon market was invented, it looks as if it’s finally starting to do what it was meant to do: reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. Even though European Union policymakers are continuously increasing the cost of pollution, industry giants are not complaining because Read More...
Children’s climate change lawsuit to continue after US government loses appeal
By a 3-0 vote, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s bid to halt a lawsuit by young people claiming that President Donald Trump and his administration are violating their constitutional rights by ignoring the harms caused by climate change. The twenty-one Read More...