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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

Brausch for The Verge Sustainable tires are becoming a reality, but are they coming soon enough? Renewable materials are finding their way into modern tires, and there’s even greener rubber on the horizon, too. Truly sustainable tires are becoming a reality, but will it be enough? Illustration by Nico H.

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So What If Your Climate-Saving Solution Is Better?

Michael Grossman

Would you honestly try to win a competition in the running shoe market against Nike by comparing the amount of sustainable rubber? What are you left with when someone in your industry invents something that leapfrogs you? What’s A Climate-Tech Company To Do? It can be a space with no competition or a new industry.

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Climate Migration Will Worsen the Brutality and Confusion on the Mediterranean

DeSmogBlog

In July of 2018, an Italian-flagged oil supply ship called the Asso 28 that was crossing the Mediterranean Sea encountered a stalled rubber raft carrying a hundred desperate migrants. The Libyan Coast Guard is highly effective in this mission thanks to aerial intelligence provided by the EU border agency, Frontex.

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Six Months After Hurricane Ida, Recovery for Many In South Louisiana Remains Aspirational While The Risks From Climate Change Increase

DeSmogBlog

“It is like it’s an environmental war zone,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, told me outside her new home in Chauvin, Louisiana, about 70 miles southwest of New Orleans. It is now part of a large pile of debris in a temporary landfill.

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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

And with September fast approaching, that means it’s almost time for conference season - in particular, the annual whirlwind that is New York Climate Week! Where we’ll be at NY Climate Week New York Climate Week is so, well, New York. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co

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Enevate says its silicon-dominant anode technology is ready for EV production

Charged

Q&A with Enevate’s Founder and CTO Dr. Benjamin Park. Introducing silicon into automotive-grade lithium-ion cells has been a major topic in the EV industry in the past decade. Many experts see a race among battery makers to get more and more silicon into their anodes. There are a lot of challenges with this approach.

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Make sex planetary with these eco-friendly products

AGreenLiving

Related: Cariloha luxury textiles use organic, sustainable bamboo The original condoms were, and still are, made out of lambskin. The good news is they are completely natural and biodegradable. The bad news is they are made from an animal product (the lining of sheep intestines) and they do not protect against STIs.