Frontier Agriculture invests in CCm Technologies' 'carbon negative' fertiliser
Business Green
JUNE 3, 2024
Investment aims to prepare low carbon fertiliser product for roll out across UK farms
GreenBiz analyst Jim Giles on the carbon offset markets, carbon-negative oil and regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
On the closing sidebar interview at VERGE 19, GreenBiz Group’s senior analyst Jim Giles discusses his excitement about the expected growth of the carbon offset markets.
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SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
When she realized microbes could create carbon-negative materials for applications across vegan leather, insulation, packaging, and more, González co-founded SpadXTech with mechanical engineer Connor Crawford in 2020. The pair got married this summer.
Carbon-negative bioenergy project underway with Chevron, Microsoft and Schlumberger
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 5, 2021
Big name corporations Chevron and Microsoft are joining Schlumberger on a plan to develop a bioenergy project that will include carbon capture and sequestration. As a result, the energy produced would be carbon negative. The project will be located in Mendota, California and will use an idled bioenergy plant.
Maybe we don’t have to capture so much carbon, study suggests
The Verge: Energy
JUNE 13, 2024
Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge New technologies and changes in consumer habits could limit the use of controversial carbon capture to fight climate change, new research shows. Efforts to capture carbon from polluting sources or to filter CO2 out of the air have picked up steam as a way for companies to meet their climate goals.
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Heard of “Net-Zero Oil” or “Carbon Negative” Bioenergy? In 2023 You Will
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 3, 2023
We investigated allegations of workers exposed to radioactive oilfield waste , reported from the frontlines of climate-fueled extreme weather and climate migration , expanded our coverage of the climate impact of agriculture , followed the ongoing buildout of LNG , and sent a team to COP27 , among other things. Carbon Capture and Storage.
The future of organic coffee: Building a network of support for regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
JULY 30, 2020
The future of organic coffee: Building a network of support for regenerative agriculture. We’re firm believers that authentic Kona coffee is organic and that shifting toward regenerative agriculture is vital. Even small island farms leave a lasting effect — both positive and negative — on the environment globally. Jean Orlowski.
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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us. A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. Each partner brings a relevant monitoring technology to the table and expertise or a track record working in a key industry such as transport, agriculture or the energy sector.
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Rainforest Energy Promises Clean Fuels and a Negative Carbon Footprint
Energy Central
DECEMBER 1, 2022
A new, private company, Rainforest Energy Corporation, plans to build biorefinery processing facilities in multiple sites to convert forest and agriculture waste into “clean fuels.”
Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience
Greentown Labs
AUGUST 17, 2022
The food and agriculture industry, responsible for 19 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is ripe for climatetech innovations that reduce waste and emissions and restore healthy ecosystems. Clearly, there’s a tremendous opportunity to rethink and improve our entire food system to address both its negative climate and social impacts.
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Transforming waste to a valuable resource: why anaerobic digestion is key in hydrogen production
Hydrogen Fuel News
JUNE 11, 2024
Hydrogen can play a crucial role in the decarbonisation of the UK economy, especially where that hydrogen is “green” with zero carbon emissions. As methane is 28 times more potent a greenhouse gas compared to carbon dioxide, each molecule of methane captured is a significant gain in steps to reduce global warming.
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GreenBiz analyst Jim Giles on the carbon offset markets, carbon-negative oil and regenerative agriculture
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
On the closing sidebar interview at VERGE 19, GreenBiz Group’s senior analyst Jim Giles discusses his excitement about the expected growth of the carbon offset markets. More here: GreenBiz analyst Jim Giles on the carbon offset markets, carbon-negative oil and regenerative agriculture.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
Carbon charging is a huge cost opportunity for UK agriculture
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. More so than any other sector of the UK economy, agriculture will look substantially different after Brexit.
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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options
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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3 big trends headlining a tumultuous year in food
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 11, 2020
dairy brand that committed to going carbon-negative by 2025 ? But do regenerative methods sequester as much carbon as advocates claim? Again, experts have doubts: One important step toward such a market, the creation of a protocol for soil carbon offsets, was the subject of multi-pronged criticism. Food & Agriculture.
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Meat and Dairy Industry ‘Weakening’ Climate Policy in the EU: Report
DeSmogBlog
MAY 29, 2024
For the past three years, agricultural industry associations such as farmers’ union COPA-COGECA , European Livestock Voice , and the European Livestock and Meat Trades Union (UECBV) have spearheaded the pushback against six key EU climate policies, alongside meat and dairy companies such as Cargill, Arla, and Vion.
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Report: Paying farmers to sequester CO2 far cheaper than carbon capture tech
Business Green
JANUARY 19, 2023
A new report by the think tank claims the UK can achieve its statutory net zero emissions targets for the land-use sector by supporting farmers and land managers to create healthy natural carbon sinks, such as woodlands, peatlands, and soils.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024
Greentown Labs
MARCH 26, 2024
Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.
Easy Ways to Reduce Carbon Footprint on Your Daily Life
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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The Carbon Capture Sector’s Community-Involvement Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Reality
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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Project aims to reduce impact of ammonia emissions from livestock
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2023
The PigProGrAm project includes Membracon’s Downflow Gas Contactor (DGC), described as “a patented technology that excels in a wide variety of gas separation applications, such as industrial carbon capture.”. He said the DGC will be used “to help generate a route for the livestock sector to become truly sustainable.”
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Carbontech is getting ready for its market moment
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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Six Inches of Soil
Terra Infirma
APRIL 22, 2024
On Friday night, the Prof took me to see the new independent movie about regenerative agriculture, Six Inches of Soil, as soil health is her thing. The film-makers should not have messed with it just to give a happy ending to the movie and Farm Carbon Toolkit should never have allowed themselves to be professionally compromised in this way.
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More reflections about regenerative grazing and the future of meat
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
I’d argued that regenerative grazing could cut emissions from beef production , helping reduce the outsized contribution cattle make to food’s carbon footprint. You can imagine a future in which some beef, probably priced at a premium, comes with a carbon-negative label. Food & Agriculture. Regenerative Agriculture.
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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta
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.
Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2023
Greentown Labs
JUNE 21, 2023
Seventeen startups joined our community Q2 2023, working on innovations ranging from smart sensors for wind turbines, to energy-efficient air conditioning, to a combo of water desalination and carbon capture. It’s participating in Year 3 of the Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative. It’s part of the C2V Initiative Year 3 cohort.
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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — May 2024
Greentown Labs
MAY 22, 2024
CalWave Power Technologies , which is working to harness carbon-free power from ocean waves, was chosen by the U.S. TerraFixing , a Carbon to Value Initiative Year 3 alum that’s developing a direct air capture process for capturing CO2 in cold climates, signed a $7.3M to develop two carbon capture units. Department of Energy.
Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2
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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AstraZeneca to tap low carbon heat from East Anglia biogas CCS project
Business Green
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Pharmaceuticals giant teams up with Future Biogas to help develop 125GWh biomethane plant fitted with carbon capture technology. Through such collaborations, we're making progress on our ambition to become carbon zero across our operations by end of 2025 and carbon negative across our value chain by 2030.".
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??Considerations for Effective Carbon Offsets, Part 1
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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Dealing sensibly with knotweed (with a nod to emissions)
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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Continuum Ag: Helping Farmers Sequester Carbon in Soil
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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Morrisons hatches plan for 'carbon neutral' eggs
Business Green
AUGUST 4, 2022
UK supermarket launches line of 'carbon neutral' eggs produced by insect-fed hens as part of its drive to be supplied by 'zero emission' British farms by 2030. UK supermarket Morrisons has launched a line of 'carbon neutral' eggs, which are produced from hens that have been fed a soya-free diet of insects.
Removing CO2: Is the UK's vision for a thriving carbon removals market starting to take shape?
Business Green
JULY 6, 2022
Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.
Big Ag Influence Over UN Food Systems Summit Criticised by Green Farming Advocates
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
The IPCC estimated that agricultural lands occupy about 40 percent of the Earth’s land surface, producing one fourth of global greenhouse gas emissions. JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity.
Ellie Goulding's seltzer brand to roll out carbon footprint labelling
Business Green
MARCH 20, 2022
A seltzer brand part-owned by Ellie Goulding has announced it will roll out carbon footprint labelling across its range from next month. Served announced late last week that all its drinks would soon come with information about the emissions generated across the product's entire life cycle, from agricultural inputs through to distribution.
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Lessons from Denmark: How the agriculture sector can produce more food on less land
Business Green
MAY 11, 2021
Findings of detailed case study into how Nordic country can slash its emissions carries lessons for advanced agricultural economies, according to WRI. Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? The World Resources Institute (WRI) thinks so.
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Making the UK’s net zero target real: Professional services firm comments on progress
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. This year the UK became the first major economy to set a legally binding commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained
Hydrogen Fuel News
JANUARY 19, 2024
Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. This process yields biogas, predominantly composed of methane and carbon dioxide, which can be used as a fuel for heating, electricity generation, or as a natural gas alternative.
Four Examples of Carbon Capture Technology
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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An Ethical Guide to Toilet Paper
The Environmental Blog
AUGUST 11, 2021
Trees perform a vital task in storing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. When they are cut down, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. Recycled toilet paper offers the same product but has far less negative impact on the environment. This isn’t the only way that trees support life.
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