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As Oil Giants Turn to Bitcoin Mining, Some Spin Burning Fossil Fuels for Cryptocurrency as a Climate Solution

DeSmogBlog

Critics point out that replacing flaring with mining crypto could become a way for fossil fuel producers to spin money directly from energy, polluting the climate without heating people’s homes or transporting people from place to place in the process. “In Credit: Marko Ahtisaari ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

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Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. and Canadian cities.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink “grill-stache.” The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. and Canadian cities.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. While microgrids have come a long way, those that are being deployed at commercial sites are mainly powered by fossil fuels – either by diesel or natural gas.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

In 2013, while studying environmental science at Stanford University, Kujimura interned at the Environmental Defense Fund in its corporate partnerships program. Blockchain entrepreneur Mesbah Sabur learned the value of hard work as an Afghan refugee, whose family sought asylum in his adopted homeland of the Netherlands when he was just 7.