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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. They also utilize algae ink printing for a truly green shipping experience.

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The Maintenance Needs Of Biodiesel

The Environmental Blog

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. But it is also made from algae, yellow grease (used restaurant oil from cooking), canola, and animal tallow. Though it had a slow start, Edmunds found that its production has risen from 25 million gallons in 2005 to 1.7 is soybean oil.

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Chicago Takes Big Oil to Court, Adding Another Heavyweight to the Fight

DeSmogBlog

Chicago’s complaint cites more frequent and intense storms, flooding, droughts, shoreline erosion, toxic algae blooms in Lake Michigan, and extreme heat events like a four-day heat wave in 1995 that killed more than 700 Chicagoans.

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nat-2’s newest sneakers are made of recycled bubble wrap

AGreenLiving

Examples in prior lines include shoes made with fungi, algae, coffee, corn, beans, flowers, cannabis, milk, moss, cast-off slaughterhouse blood and many more. The company also relies on low-impact packaging like shoeboxes and brochures made from recycled paper as well as wooden hang tags made out of wood from certified sustainable forests.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. The project was funded by Sergei Brin, one of the founders of Google, and came with a price tag of 250.000 euros for a single burger.

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In an era of climate change, Alaska’s predators fall prey to politics

Grist

In 2016, for example, the federal government shared radio tag information with the state, which used it to kill wolves when they left the safety of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve — destroying so many packs that it ended a 20-year study on predator-prey relationships.

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These urchin slayers are trying to save California’s underwater ‘rainforest’

Grist

Resembling spiky, baseball-sized pom-poms, purple urchins are omnivorous, consuming everything from algae to dead fish. Like terrestrial forests, kelp (technically a form of brown algae) are important carbon sinks, converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into leaves and canopies. They can survive in “starvation” mode for years).

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