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

DeSmogBlog

Flaring — or the burning of stranded natural gas directly at an oil well — is one of the drilling industry’s most notorious problems, often condemned as a pointlessly polluting waste of billions of dollars and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. How does ExxonMobil plan to reach that goal?

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. What can we learn from these early implementations?

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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. When Ozturkeri was a kid — in the late 1990s and early 2000s — oil and gas prices were volatile and the threat of power outages often hung over the country’s infrastructure.