Sustainability News
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Nikola Raises $100M to Scale Hydrogen Truck Development
Nikola’s hydrogen fuel cell electric Class 8 trucks were first announced in 2016 and the company has taken large pre-orders from fleets like Anheuser-Busch, with expectations to deliver the first vehicles…
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A giant floating trash collector will try to scoop up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
“‘I applaud the efforts to remove plastics – clearly any piece of debris cleared from the ocean is helpful,’ said Rolf Halden, a professor of environmental health engineering at Arizona…
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One-planet prosperity: The business case for addressing ‘earth overshoot’
Over the past decades, sustainability strategies have given businesses a leg up, a trend that can only get stronger: According to McKinsey, an investment of $1 in 1993 in a…
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The climate impact of the food in the back of your fridge
“It turns out reducing food waste is one of the most important things we can do to reverse global warming. Project Drawdown’s team of researchers ranked solutions to global warming;…
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Trump Unveils His Plan to Weaken Fuel Economy Rules
“The proposal would freeze rules requiring automakers to build cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars, including hybrids and electric vehicles, and unravel one of President Barack Obama’s signature policies to combat global…
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Kraft Heinz vows to make packaging sustainable by 2025
“Kraft Heinz Co. on Tuesday said it plans to make all of its packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. “The company, based in Pittsburgh and Chicago, said it will…
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Report: Pittsburgh’s tech employment continues to grow faster than in other small cities
“Between 2016 and 2017, tech employment grew 13.8 percent in the city — a pace that places Pittsburgh fifth on a list of 50 ‘momentum markets’ where job growth has…
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Topics at Rail~Volution Pittsburgh
“The program for the October Rail~Volution conference in Pittsburgh is still a few weeks away — look for it online in late August. This past week, our National Steering Committee…
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Ark of history? Meet the completely circular car named Noah
“‘The result of this fantastic project shows just how far biobased materials have come, to produce such a complex product as a car,’ he said. ‘Noah is the proof that…
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Pittsburgh is no longer a smoky city, but that doesn’t mean it has cleaned up its act
“Pittsburgh can’t escape its geography or its past — an urban center in a region rich with coal and, more recently, discovered to be sitting in one of the largest…