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England's tallest wind turbine coming to the South West

Bristol City Council has agreed to lease land for the construction of England’s tallest wind turbine, which will be run by community interest company Ambition Community Energy (ACE).

ACE, which was set up by charity organisation Ambition Lawrence Weston (ALW) in 2018, had planning permission approved for the 150m structure in July of last year on local authority land in Avonmouth,...

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Tech-powered borrow and return scheme launches in Bristol

Another UK first launches in Bristol today with CanCan , the country's first city-wide borrow and return scheme for hospitality, events and corporates. Built around an app connecting users to smart trackable cups & food containers each fitted with a unique QR code, the innovative scheme gives traders and businesses cost effective and easy ways to reduce their use of disposable cups and...

10 Top Tips to Making Your Business More Sustainable – Without Becoming a Green Washer

Responding to climate change is a shared responsibility. September through to November, there are several events like Technology Live 2021, Climathon 2021 and the vast COP26 coming up which will magnify key environmental issues across different sectors, reinforcing the need for the commitment and the acceleration of purposeful governmental and corporate social responsibility initiatives....

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From Silence to Noise - the Path to Action in Sustainable Finance

Armen Papazian is a financial economist and the CEO of analytics platform Value XD . This post is an excerpt from his upcoming book due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the near future.

Beyond buzz words and broadly titled global targets and initiatives, the fact is, we are still thinking and crystallising the principles, equations, methodologies, data points, and...

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Bristol-based CFMS leads project to revolutionise sustainable aircraft design

Aerospace experts from across the UK are taking part in a landmark project to transform how aircraft can be designed to be more sustainable and the Bristol-based Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS) is part of the consortium.

The partners are CFMS, Rolls-Royce, Loganair and University of Strathclyde, and with the support of Scottish Enterprise, are working together to define...

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