Designed to fly up to four passengers for distances between 500km to 5,000km, the Element One is described as a quiet, ultra-light, zero carbon aircraft “several orders of magnitude better” than battery-electric aircrafts.
Austin’s Universal Recycling Ordinance requires all food-permitted businesses to divert discarded organic material, including food scraps and soiled paper, from landfills.
Figures reveal that more than 14,800 renewable energy patents were filed worldwide in 2017 — a 43 per cent rise on the 10,500 in the previous year.
Senior officials from Beijing, Fuzhou, Qingdao and Shanghai have pledged to remove greenhouse gas emissions from their buildings.
The Connecticut Green Bank was established in 2011, and since then has been working to accelerate the deployment of clean energy.
The World Bank committed $1 billion to finance battery-storage systems in developing countries, and expects its participation to attract another $4 billion in backing.
Eighty-nine early signatories, including the U.K.’s biggest supermarkets as well as food producers, manufacturers and restaurant chains, have committed to halving their food waste from “farm to fork” by 2030.
It’s the first such system in the country, according to the report, and could vastly decrease the environmental impact of beverage sales.
The stores would run on 100 per cent renewable energy, ensure waste was reduced by donating unsold food to local banks and use state-of-the-art technology to ensure that annual water consumption is reduced by 30 per cent.
Japan’s Marubeni Corp said it would no longer start new coal-fired power plant projects and will halve its net coal power generating capacity of about 3 gigawatts (GW) by 2030.
