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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Bailouts paper over the fossil fuel industry's weaknesses and "will create a zombie industry forever dependent on state aid for survival," according to Jason Quay, director of the Global Climate Strategy Sunrise Project. . Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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Understanding Overlapping Corporate Disinformation Campaigns is Critical to Telling the Full Story About Science Denial

DeSmogBlog

Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund. While the work FTI Consulting did for Monsanto got a bit of attention after the court documents were released, major media outlets failed to highlight and explain the broader connection with FTI’s work on climate denial for the fossil fuel industry.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Bailouts paper over the fossil fuel industry’s weaknesses and “will create a zombie industry forever dependent on state aid for survival,” according to Jason Quay, director of the Global Climate Strategy Sunrise Project. This old playbook will not return us to a pre-COVID-19 “normal.”

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Bailouts paper over the fossil fuel industry’s weaknesses and “will create a zombie industry forever dependent on state aid for survival,” according to Jason Quay, director of the Global Climate Strategy Sunrise Project. This old playbook will not return us to a pre-COVID-19 “normal.”

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Why We’re Excited about Synthetic Biology

Better Ventures

One investment theme we’re increasingly excited about is synthetic biology, due to its potential to replace carbon emitting production methods for a number of products reliant on fossil fuels, from food and materials to therapeutics and petrochemicals. in 2003 (cumulatively) to under $1,000 today, a reduction far outpacing Moore’s Law.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

That’s when the idea for Mi Terro, his social impact biotechnology company focused on turning milk waste into fibers that can be used in apparel and packaging, started to bubble up. . Luo said his uncle was frustrated by the buckets of spoiled milk he threw away on a daily basis because it represented profits he could have made. "He