Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a UK specialist in the topic. From one tonne of knotweed rhizome (wet weight) we can create around 150-200kg of charcoal which is 99% pure carbon.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Rising corporate support of carbontech and carbon removal technologies writ large is one of the biggest reasons driving my optimism that the market is about to take a turn. .

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. Kelp’s health benefits extend beyond vitamins, as documented by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) FoodData Central site. Kelp is also appealing because of its nutritional value.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energy, venturing beyond the surface to examine the environmental, economic, and social narratives that intertwine with the fabric of this energy form.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere may be as difficult as getting to the moon. . Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world's oceans. Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2. Tali Zuckerman.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. Carbon Negative Solutions (Rock Hill, N.Y.) is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Its founder is Andre Gafford. Its founder is Keith Crossland.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. One says it will “push” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to host “positive livestock content” at COP28.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The fashion industry, for example, is very dependent on natural resources and healthy agricultural and forestry ecosystems. Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. Smaller brands taking bold action: INDIGENOUS.

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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). Europe’s Green Deal.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Human activities produce 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in a year as per 2015. To create such amount of carbon, you’d need to burn a forest the size of the African continent every day throughout the year. Fortunately, there are ways you can reduce the carbon footprint in your daily life. Take a look.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Aemetis, Inc (NASDAQ stock symbol AMTX) has announced that it has recently received a Use Permit from the City of Riverbank, California, for the production of renewable fuels including negative carbon intensity sustainable aviation and diesel fuel. Massive contracts Aemetis has already signed $3.8 Q4: What is renewable fuel used for?

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. Planet’s daily imaging data enables powerful agricultural insights through the integration of machine learning capabilities. All Rights Reserved.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Meet Mitchell Hora. Mitchell is a farmer in Iowa. Easy peasy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. use the captured carbon to drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. 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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. The response from Europe’s powerful industrial agriculture sector was swift and unequivocal: Farm to Fork will result in disaster. The battle over agrochemical regulation is not new. See Table.).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Fifty start-ups spanning the energy, transportation, buildings, industry, agriculture, and food sectors have been selected from more than 600 applicants to join the programme's first cohort, the two organisations behind the initiative, the Rocky Mountain Institute and New Energy Nexus, announced yesterday.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. In Jordan, the EBRD’s technical support and a 2015 loan worth up to $21 million helped poultry company Al Jazeera Agricultural Company upgrade its facilities and expand its retail presence.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 13, 2020

The need for negative emission technologies ( NETs ) is becoming increasingly apparent in the wake of our failure to draw-down atmospheric greenhouse gases. Plants can harvest the CO2 from the air and sequester it or sell it for agricultural or industrial applications. It can also be recycled and used to make synthetic fuel.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

DarkBlack Carbon was only officially founded four months ago, but believes it is already primed to be a market leader for biochar in the UK "It's got everything, hasn't it?" says Liz Casely, co-founder of UK start-up DarkBlack Carbon. It is a catalyst for helping to restore natural balances," explains Casely.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

million hectares of peatland are in a degraded state and are no longer actively sequestering carbon, citing figures that suggest the habitat could now be emitting more carbon annually than the nation's agricultural sector. If we're serious about carbon in UK we have to look after our peatlands first.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

The government said the projects - which include initiatives to growing algae from whisky manufacturing, increase yields of grass varieties, and accelerate the breeding of willow trees - would "boost biomass productivity in the UK, through breeding, planting, cultivating and harvesting of organic energy materials".

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cranford, NJ, USA): Cost-competitive carbon-negative monoethylene glycol using today’s grid electricity. ? As the founding member of the M-Lab Companies, a consortium of 13 top-tier Japanese organizations based in Silicon Valley, MCA has been an industry leader when it comes to convening groups toward climate innovation and action.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. These compounds can have potentially irreversible effects on living organisms and on the physical environment (by affecting atmospheric processes and climate). The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. The overall environmental impact of the growing system or form of agriculture employed. The human cost of food growth and production. Problems with the current food system.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

We’ve spilled plenty of ink in this newsletter on carbon capture, but less on what happens after —particularly carbon-to-value. In the meantime, Rubi aims to capture the CO2 from industrial processes and use it to make apparel inputs carbon-negative. Do they come directly from living organisms?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

After years of R&D there is growing evidence that carbon capture and utilisation technologies are edging towards the crucial commercialisation phase. This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. What's on my mind?

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

CARBONOVA Technology at a glance: Carbonova , located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is developing a solution to produce high-volume, superior carbon nanofibers for use in various market applications, utilizing greenhouse-gas feedstocks and turning them into a sustainable, valuable solid commodity.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains. So procuring sustainable fats and oils relies on a wider change in how we approach agriculture.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In industries like agriculture, fishing, transportation logistics, and construction, workers must work outside and generally have little protection against high temperatures. A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Higher temperatures can also make extreme rain events more likely.

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