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Following the success of the first solar flight around the world, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation has launched the second phase of their action: selecting #1000solutions that can protect the environment in a profitable way, and bringing them to decision makers to help them adopt more ambitious environmental targets and energy policies.

Shore-to-ship power
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Shore-to-ship power, reducing the environmental footprint of ships with grid connection

December 19, 2019 Business Sustainability Today

In 2000, the port of Gothenburg was home to a major technological breakthrough in the maritime industry. It was the first ever port to be equipped with shore-to-ship power by the Swiss-Swedish company ABB. This technology, also known as cold-ironing or shoreside power, consists in connecting ships to land-based electrical grids when ships are docked to power all the port activities such as loading, heating, cooling or lighting. […]

Mobile Aeroponics Farming, growing lettuce the green way
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Mobile Aeroponics Farming, growing lettuce the green way

October 24, 2019 Business Sustainability Today

Food waste is not only one of the world’s biggest environmental problems – it accounts for about 10% of CO2 emissions – but also reflects a highly inefficient system. In fact, society emits carbon to grow, harvest, transport and package food, one-third of which ends up in landfills where it releases methane, a very polluting greenhouse gas. None of this makes sense. […]