From the smallest of deeds, like recovering surplus food to give to people in need (and keeping the food out of the waste stream), to large renewable energy projects, UC Davis’ efforts in sustainability have the nation and world taking notice — again.
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Elon Musk Unveils Tesla’s New Sustainable House – Cost $15000: Today we’ll be telling you all about the First Tesla Home. In a market where Tesla plans on taking over the entire Electric Vehicle industry, can Tesla take over multiple avenues? What plans do they have? Stick around to find out more. Sure, you might have dreamt about having a Tesla in your garage, but how about a Tesla home? The C.E.O. of Tesla, Elon Musk, is all set to enter the housing industry. And hold on to your seats because it’s nothing short of spectacular! Elon has been on the news almost every single day for months now. And why wouldn’t he be? He has been coming up with innovations that no one ever expected. From installing chips in your brain through Neuralink to building underground tunnels with The Boring Company, coming up with a yacht, and now home!
Beneath the almond and citrus fields of the San Joaquin Valley lies an enormous system of aquifers that feeds some of the world’s most productive farmland. Hundreds of miles north and east, along the Nevada border, is the Surprise Valley, a remote, high-desert region undergirded by cone-shaped hollows of sediment that hold deposits of water.
The launch of GreenBiz Group’s newest event brand, a three-day event focusing on the systemic shifts to a circular economy.
The government of Alberta is pressing hard for Canadian government environmental approval to expand oil sands production through the addition of new pipelines and oil sands projects. Desperation is apparent as the provinces economy is sputtering with a commercial office vacancy rate in Calgary, and an unemployment rate for young men, both hovering around 20%.
Alberta’s deficit this year is $6.7 billion on a budget of $50 billion and it plans to cut up to 6000 civil service jobs. The government is promoting the growth opportunity which it feels will deliver the simplest and quickest relief: oil.
There are many products we use in our everyday lives without giving them a single thought. Some of those items, like plastic water bottles, plastic grocery bags, electricity, and even gasoline, can have a pretty big environmental impact. The world is changing, though. The UN has encouraged citizens to reevaluate their plastic use, and even companies in traditionally conservative areas of the U.S. are going green. If you also want to make a difference, check out these five documentaries that will inspire you to consider how you use plastic and other products. 1. Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Journalist and filmmaker, Angela Sun, takes us to Midway Atoll, a large island in the Pacific that has become an enormous garbage dump, in her documentary Plastic Paradise. The environmental film exposes the problems our society has created by our rabid consumption and the impact it has on the world around us.
As society becomes more mindful of the effect it has on the environment and takes steps to lessen this impact, we are beginning to see the business world follow suit. While the majority of organisations have traditionally relied on a linear business model, it has become clear that this way of operating follows a pattern of ‘take-make-waste’.