GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies. Fri, 02/19/2021 - 00:40. The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. trillion opportunity by 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service. The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

US start up secures fresh backing for pioneering technology that sequesters carbon from biomass waste in the form of thermoplastics. There may be more funding for climate tech startups floating around than ever - roughly $17bn in the first half of 2021 alone - but that doesn't mean investors aren't doing their due diligence. "It

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

The tech giant has lifted the lid on its efforts to soak up more carbon than it emits. While other organizations are focused primarily on getting to carbon neutral for current emissions, Microsoft plans to offset its entire historical emissions going back to when the company was founded in 1975.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats up Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. The 2021 extreme drought is adding stress to an already overworked electrical grid because a hydroelectric power station is on the brink of turning off because water levels are so low. According to the U.S. Plant trees.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. The EU’s climate commitments mean that we will replace those smokestacks with clean technologies, sooner or later.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats ups Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. You can download the entire report here.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. New technologies are helping, many still in early stages. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. And that remains a problem.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Daimler, the largest truck maker in the world, expects to have the 250-mile-range Freightliner eCascadia model in production during 2021. A new technology of this sort, chemical garment-to-garment recycling, was one of your favorite stories of the year. . That includes two new technologies. Media Authorship. Close Authorship.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

It's time for bold action to cut carbon and reverse nature decline.". While the government has been focussing on meeting net zero, it has forgotten about the risks to soil health and subsequent disruptions to food supply. Protecting and restoring nature - including habitats, soils and trees - is crucial to limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00. In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Economists are rethinking core assumptions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. As technology costs continue to fall, the pathways to net-zero are becoming clearer.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies Suz Okie Fri, 02/19/2021 – 00:40 Creating human-made materials from living or biological sources is by no means a new development, yet newly invented bio-based materials are garnering significant hype as of late. trillion opportunity by 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

From 1970-2021 (52 years) one study found that, out of 202 locations, 84% had experienced warmer winters by >2°F (1°C). One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Below we explore 5 ways ski resorts can reduce their carbon footprint.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

IEMA members are at the heart of a transition to a more sustainable, zero carbon economy; Sir Patha's review is more powerful evidence of how vital this transition is.". — George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) February 1, 2021. It is not sanguine that technology by itself will save us. This is its ultimate expression.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 01:40. Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Overall, I was most inspired by the organizers and members of the 2021 Emerging Leaders cohort. How 12 Emerging Leaders are embarking on sustainability career journeys.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 20, 2023

It’s a mantra by now that in addition to mitigating future emissions, we have to extract existing carbon dioxide pollution from our atmospheric and oceanic dumps. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies often sound like science fiction—gigantic carbon-sucking vacuums, anyone? A new approach for CDR?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. New technologies are helping, many still in early stages. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. And that remains a problem.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Daimler, the largest truck maker in the world, expects to have the 250-mile-range Freightliner eCascadia model in production during 2021. A new technology of this sort, chemical garment-to-garment recycling, was one of your favorite stories of the year. That includes two new technologies.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

A 2021 report by the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) (on behalf of Employee-Owned S Corporations of America ESCA) concluded that employee-owned businesses – defined by employees owning ~30% of business shares – are more productive, grow faster, and are less likely to go out of business than non-employee-owned organizations.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Twenty startups joined our community in Q3 2021, working on innovations as diverse as carbon-negative fats, energy-efficient membrane materials for chemical separations, and scalable electric vehicle charging solutions for high-density urban settings. Agtech + water. Manufacturing.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01. Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.". GreenBiz Editors. Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities. Planet-healing fast food.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. Without keeping carbon in the ground, there's no way that we can achieve these climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Shell also financed and seconded staff to industry-backed energy research initiatives throughout the 1970s that emphasized uncertainties in climate science, or made unrealistic suggestions that technological solutions could be found to offset growing emissions from burning fossil fuels. Shell had other plans.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The potential for carbon-capture tech is captivating. Thu, 02/04/2021 - 01:30. This week, oil giant ExxonMobil pledged $3 billion to the development of a carbon capture and storage business over the next five years — in a bid to manage its business risks associated with climate change. Heather Clancy.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 GreenBiz Editors Mon, 05/17/2021 – 00:01 Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities. Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. “Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Corporate and investor interest in carbon capture is soaring, and there are plenty of options for businesses to explore. This week, oil giant ExxonMobil pledged $3bn to the development of a carbon capture and storage business over the next five years - in a bid to manage its business risks associated with climate change.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The potential for carbon-capture tech is captivating Heather Clancy Thu, 02/04/2021 – 01:30 This week, oil giant ExxonMobil pledged $3 billion to the development of a carbon capture and storage business over the next five years — in a bid to manage its business risks associated with climate change.

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