Waste Reduction

Hyundai Motor Group Expands Korea’s Hydrogen Ecosystem with First Group-Operated Waste-To-Hydrogen Facility

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Hyundai Motor Group opens HTWO ENERGY Cheongju, its first Group-operated waste-to-hydrogen (W2H) production and refueling facility HTWO ENERGY Cheongju supports localized hydrogen production and use, reducing transportation costs and enhancing regional energy self-sufficiency Equipped with biogas upgrading, hydrogen production and compression systems, the facility produces approximately 500 kilograms of hydrogen … [continued]

community garden Volunteer Judi Van Der Spoole at the First Church community garden. Photo by Carolyn Fortuna, CleanTechnica

Want To Create A Viable And Sustainable Community Garden? These Folks Can Show You How

2 months Carolyn Fortuna 0 Comments

He wears a straw floppy hat, gray tee shirt, black shorts, and topsiders. His round face and easy smile belie his tenacity and vision. Bernie McBee has led an incredible mission to create a sustainable community garden in an economically disadvantaged area of Fort Pierce, Florida. With the support of … [continued]

food system Photo of vegetarian polenta cakes, wild mushroom ragu, goat cheese, and balsamic reduction at Urban Tapas, Fort Pierce, FL by Carolyn Fortuna/ CleanTechnica

How Today’s Media Influence The Ways We Perceive The Food System On Which We Depend

2 months Carolyn Fortuna 0 Comments

My mother cooked for our family with a post-World War II mindset. Bacon and eggs for breakfast. Wonder Bread sandwiches with one slice of American cheese and another slice of ham. Supper typically would be Shake-n-Bake chicken, mashed potatoes, and a canned vegetable, or hamburger and reheated frozen french fries. … [continued]

Ben and Jerry's Photo of Ben and Jerry's Waterbury, VT, plant by Carolyn Fortuna | CleanTechnica.

Ben And Jerry’s New Wastewater Plant Works A Lot Like The Human Body

12 months Carolyn Fortuna 0 Comments

In my travels in Vermont this week, I stopped at Ben and Jerry’s factory in Waterbury. Wherever a visitor meanders on the campus, it’s evident that the company loves making ice cream. It’s also clear that they’re applying a particular business model in their beliefs that they can make the … [continued]

net zero hotel "Reduce carbon emission" by vishwaant is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

What’s Different About A Net Zero Hotel?

1 year Carolyn Fortuna 0 Comments

While visiting family and friends in Rhode Island, my guy and I are staying at a local low-budget hotel. I admit that I originally thought the affordable price point would mean few amenities, like no pool or hot tub or restaurant on site. What we got, instead, was streetlights blazing … [continued]

ChatGPT generated this high-resolution image of stacked steel beams and rebar at a construction site, illustrating steel’s foundational role in traditional building ChatGPT generated this high-resolution image of stacked steel beams and rebar at a construction site, illustrating steel’s foundational role in traditional building

Reassessing Steel: How Falling Cement Use Alters Future Projections

1 year Michael Barnard 0 Comments

My recent online conversation with Scott Norris, a structural steel expert and Director of Engineering Solutions at Steelcon, prompted me to reexamine some assumptions I had previously made about global steel demand projections. Scott, whose practical experience within the steel industry grants him clear insights into current operational constraints and … [continued]

ChatGPT generated a thermal infrared drone image showing methane leaking from an abandoned well as a vivid red-orange plume against a dark purple terrain ChatGPT generated a thermal infrared drone image showing methane leaking from an abandoned well as a vivid red-orange plume against a dark purple terrain

Hidden Super-Emitters: The Climate Imperative Of Addressing Abandoned Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

1 year Michael Barnard 0 Comments

Methane, long overshadowed by carbon dioxide in global climate discussions, is finally receiving the attention it deserves. Recent research, including a just published critical global inventory, A global inventory of methane emissions from abandoned oiland gas wells and possible mitigation pathways by Lei et al., highlights methane emissions from the … [continued]

urban sprawl "Los Angeles" by ST33VO is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Who Thinks Urban Sprawl Is A Good Thing?

1 year Carolyn Fortuna 0 Comments

The Dallas area has grown by about three million people over the past two decades, and Ross Perot, Jr. predicted in the New York Times that greater Dallas would continue to push outward for many decades more. It will start at a point 40 miles from downtown, he says, then … [continued]

ChatGPT generated overhead image showing massive coal ash ponds, vividly contrasting the minimal scale of solar panel waste ChatGPT generated overhead image showing massive coal ash ponds, vividly contrasting the minimal scale of solar panel waste

Solar Panel Waste is Tiny—Coal & Gas Emit Hundreds Of Times Mass Per MWh

1 year Michael Barnard 0 Comments

Every few months, another wave of media reports predictably warns about the supposed “looming crisis” of solar panel waste. Given the urgency of climate action, it’s frustrating to see the conversation repeatedly derailed by these exaggerated concerns. I’ve previously examined this narrative around wind energy, demonstrating clearly in my CleanTechnica … [continued]