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Cool foods for a warming planet

Business Green

Back before the pandemic, around 10,000 employees arrived every day at Genentech, a biotechnology company headquartered in South San Francisco. But Cool Food members are a diverse bunch. Cool Food will create more demand for plant-based foods and shape the habits and preferences of millions of consumers globally," Pozzi predicted.

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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

into climate solutions and will spearhead the development of 15 transformative technologies crucial for heating and cooling our homes, reimagining critical resource extraction, advancing carbon removal and transforming our food system. The why: With demand for lithium growing twice as fast as production, the U.S.

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Architects envision a green, solar-powered skyscraper

AGreenLiving

Powered by ground heat pumps and solar energy , the conceptual design promotes a new type of urban development that not only meets the needs of local citizens, but also uses technology and biotechnology to reduce its environmental impact and improve livability.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. in part to demand that the federal government uphold treaty obligations to the Lakota people. It’s just cool to be part of it.” (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

Climate Tech VC

The S&P Global Clean Energy index dropped 30% YTD weighed down by higher interest rates and supply / demand imbalances. ❄️ Macro market cools climate tech venture. Key market supply and demand indicators ended the year down. 👻 Spooky season for clean energy stocks. Nuclear makes a resurgence.