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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: The nearly 16,000 desalination plants around the world create enough waste to cover Florida with a foot of brine each year.

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‘Keep off the grass’: the biofuel that could help us achieve net zero

Envirotec Magazine

With very little known about its productivity in flooded and moisture-saturated soil conditions, researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich wanted to understand the differences in water-stress tolerance among Miscanthus species to guide genomics-assisted crop breeding.

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GreenTech Painting: Eco-Painting Services for the Home, Business and More

Green Business Bureau

Rather than ending up as useless waste in the landfill, these plantable cards degrade in soil and grow into herbs and flowering plants, making this a big win for bees and other pollinators. If necessary, however, then the GreenTech Painting team finds a sustainable, and often unique, solution for their paper use.

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2022 Decarbon8 AgTech funding round open now

E8 Cleantech Angels

E8, an impact investor community specializing in climate tech and cleantech, invites applications from early-stage companies to its 2022 Decarbon8-US funding round focused on technological solutions that advance regenerative agriculture and reduce its environmental impacts. Ag and ecosystem biotechnology (e.g. Evaluation Criteria.

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How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution

Business Green

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. million metric tons, according to a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Farmers as a group don't typically embrace change. A silent killer on a massive scale.