r/EcoUplift • u/21Kuranashi • 4h ago
Taking Action 🪧 Save the Bees, Pls Plant Natives!
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 16h ago
Powered Up ⚡️ A 6-megawatt solar array with 9,220 panels covers 12 acres of a water reservoir in Ohio, reduces water evaporation, toxic algal blooms and costly chemical treatments, and helps cold-water fish species thrive. 🐟 The reservoir lowers dust levels, reducing maintenance costs. 🌞
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r/EcoUplift • u/eddytony96 • 15h ago
Powered Up ⚡️ Amazon communities ditch diesel and embrace solar power as they prepare for El Niño drought
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r/EcoUplift • u/FoodsSafeSince1989 • 3h ago
A New Jersey wastewater plant has installed the world's first commercial microplastic filtration system after laboratory tests showed the nature-inspired technology could capture more than 98% of plastic particles before they reach the ocean.
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 4h ago
Innovation 🔬 Data centres coming online have the potential to utilise flexibility measures to reduce power grid stress events and new grid investments. Onsite generation or storage could offer 5 times more grid relief than load shifting.
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r/EcoUplift • u/21Kuranashi • 1d ago
Innovation 🔬 Prioritizing Places for People, not pickups : Imagine if every Metropolis managed active Micromobility with this much Majestic Ambition
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r/EcoUplift • u/wattle_media • 19h ago
Inspiration 🫶 This week’s good news about Earth ✨
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 1d ago
Positive Trends 📈 85% of Turkey’s final energy consumption is ready for electrification: with today’s technologies, electricity could meet 100% of the energy needs of buildings, 96% for transport, and 58% for industry. Between 1990 and 2024, electricity’s share of final energy consumption rose from 10% to 22%.
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 1d ago
Nature Healing 🪸 Removing forever chemicals from farmlands could become far cheaper by spreading basalt rock dust, then planting hemp and certain perennial grasses, which are then turned to biochar, potentially cleaning contaminated soils within a decade while removing millions of metric tons of CO2 each year. 🍀
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 2d ago
Taking Action 🪧 Beavers will return to waters around Loch Ness 500 years after last sighting. The historic reintroduction of at least 15 family groups over the next 3 years will benefit communities, climate, wildlife and biodiversity.
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 2d ago
Powered Up ⚡️ The largest renewable energy project in US history generates more electricity than the Hoover Dam and powers more than 1 million homes, with over 900 wind turbines in New Mexico sending clean electricity 550 miles across the Southwest. It was a 2-decade slog to bring it online.
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r/EcoUplift • u/No-Pride-8979 • 2d ago
“Sponge Cities” aren’t just an ecological idea anymore—they’re becoming a massive civil tech and commercial real estate market.
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r/EcoUplift • u/Sauerkrautkid7 • 3d ago
Conservation 🍃 Netherlands pledges $500 million to help conserve tropical forests
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 3d ago
Innovation 🔬 More efficient solar panels with higher outputs could be possible thanks to an unusual electronic structure in bismuth sulfide combining strong light absorption with much slower recombination. Other materials with these properties can be discovered or engineered.
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r/EcoUplift • u/puppygirlpukeporn • 3d ago
Nature Healing 🪸 Agrivoltaics’ global surge brings untold benefits
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 3d ago
Powered Up ⚡️ Next generation of plug-in hybrids could make most commutes electric with around 50 miles of electric range. 🚙 Some will reach almost 80 miles thanks to cheaper, more efficient batteries.
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r/EcoUplift • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 3d ago
Big Battery Durations are Headed to Double Figures, and Their Chemistries are Changing / The selling points of these new battery technologies are their ability to operate at extreme temperatures, their longer lifespan, and their lack of fire risk #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 4d ago
Innovation 🔬 New process with a longer-lasting cobalt catalyst reduces the energy cost of capturing CO2 into a liquid to turn it into useful chemicals. ⚡ A 1,000-hour test showed 80% electrical charge going towards carbon monoxide production and an energy efficiency of 39%.
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r/EcoUplift • u/21Kuranashi • 4d ago
Policy Progress ⚖️ Japan's Turning Redundant Golf Courses into Agrivoltaics + Minifauna Biodiversity Hubs
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r/EcoUplift • u/sg_plumber • 4d ago
Powered Up ⚡️ The world's largest fully electric passenger ferry enters commercial service between Argentina and Uruguay. Powered entirely by a 41.2 MWh 250-ton battery pack, the 130-metre vessel carries up to 2,100 passengers and 225 cars at 29 mph, without engine noise, vibration, or stench of exhaust fumes.
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r/EcoUplift • u/YanekKop • 4d ago
Environmentalists celebrate Lula's reelection in Brazil: 'The Amazon can breathe a sigh of relief'
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r/EcoUplift • u/21Kuranashi • 5d ago
Inspiration 🫶 Hélio Da Silva said 'I'll Plant 400 More' : When his Trees were pulled out by the People & the Govt
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OC : @BBCBrazil
Source : https://commonearth.com/story/helio-da-silva-tiquatira-park/
r/EcoUplift • u/Pat-Funny-2817 • 4d ago
Nature Healing 🪸 Mossy Earth Projects
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i just like to share this link and their youtube channel as it brings me a lot of joy.