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Canada’s Timber Moment: CLT As The Fastest Lever for Housing, Jobs, & Climate

7 min read

Canada is in the middle of two crises that are converging in uncomfortable ways. On one side, housing supply has failed to keep up with demand for decades. Affordability is slipping out of reach for many households, and the workforce that builds homes is aging and stretched thin. On the … [continued]

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Clean Technica Water

Two-Thirds Of River Trash Is Plastic (Research)

5 min read

The following information is somewhat difficult on an emotional level, but important to consider. It might be difficult because pesky, toxic fossil fuel pollution seems to get into almost everything: air, oceans, soil, food, etc. Plastics typically are made from fossil fuels. If you read CleanTechnica with any regularity, you … [continued]

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Clean Technica Climate change Research

Fracking Hydrogen From Rocks: Clever Tech, Tough Economics

11 min read

Engineered mineral hydrogen is an elegant idea. Water reacts with iron rich magnesium and iron rich, silica poor igneous rock — ultramafic — from Earth’s mantle rocks to release hydrogen, and with the right chemistry and temperature you can raise reaction rates and collect a clean product. In the lab … [continued]

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Syncraft Builds New Climate-Positive Power Plant In Wallern, Austria

2 min read

Another innovative stride in Upper Austria’s green-energy landscape is the groundbreaking of the new SYNCRAFT climate-positive power plant in Wallern, Austria. This facility will convert regional forest residues into baseload clean electricity, heat, and carbon removal (CDR), moving energy forward and removing carbon from the atmosphere. From Waste Biomass To … [continued]

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