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Better Ventures Invests in Apostrophe to Scale Healthcare Access and Savings

Better Ventures

We are thrilled to announce our latest investment: Apostrophe ! Apostrophe is a Denver, CO-based healthtech startup that administers self-insured employer healthcare plans, making best practices available to employers while making high-quality care available to employees. We led the company’s $1.15M seed round, alongside co-investors TechStars and Royal Street Ventures.

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories — 29 June

Climate-KIC

In which direction is the green bond market heading? Could drones soon be fighting deforestation? And which businesses are turning bread into biogas? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. Dutch companies set up giant bread bins to help tackle rat scourge Businesses in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam are […].

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Going Green with Your Move

Green Tech Challenge

Making a big move doesn’t have to be damaging to the environment. Here are several ways you can make an eco-friendly move. Whichever way you cut it, moving is a stressful process. From selling unwanted furniture and equipment, signing leases and other paperwork to last minute packing, not to mention coordinating the logistics of the move itself, moving is never easy.

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Why Measuring Water Levels is Crucial for Understanding Ground Gas Behaviour

Ambisense

Ground gas measurements are influenced by a myriad of factors – the underlying gassing activity, subsurface migration conditions, meteorological and tidal factors, and the status of the monitoring well itself. Here’s Why Measuring Water Levels is Crucial for Understanding Ground-Gas Behaviour: Testing the Waters is Critical As surely as the weather invariably permeates our social conversations, .

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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The Sun Always Rises: The Final Chapter in Nevada’s Solar Saga

Vote Solar

This month, Governor Sandoval signed a suite of energy bills making Nevada one of the most forward-thinking states in the country when it comes to clean energy. Just seventeen months ago, Nevada had been where the growing U.S. solar industry suffered its worst loss ever. The story of what happened in-between has important lessons for utilities and citizens alike.

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Bio-inspired wind turbines increase efficiency by 35 per cent

Climate-KIC

French scientists have presented a new type of ‘bioinspired’ wind turbine using blades which change shape in different wind speeds, increasing their efficiency by more than a third. Normal wind turbines are designed to operate in a narrow zone, so energy is lost if the wind blows outside this range. It’s also inefficient to place […]. The post Bio-inspired wind turbines increase efficiency by 35 per cent appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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