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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The brand works with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to help them get new therapies to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible. Doing business virtually has helped Synterex reduce paper, food, and plastic waste by encouraging dining at home and virtually eliminating commuting-related carbon emissions.

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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. Startups such as SOS Carbon , based in the Dominican Republic, and C-Combinator , a US company with operations in Puerto Rico and Mexico, are two of those.

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Interview: Elizabeth Kolbert on why we’ll never stop messing with nature

Grist

And in Massachusetts, Harvard University scientists research injecting chemicals into the atmosphere to dim the sun’s light — and slow down the runaway pace of global warming. But it goes from regional engineering solutions through biotechnology, through gene editing, and all the way up to solar geoengineering. That makes sense.”