Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Published today in The Lancet Planetary Health , the new study examines the impact of Covid-19 globally and explores how the food system could play a critical role in driving economic recovery while enhancing both human and environmental health. The work also involved researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

C16 Biosciences developed a biotechnology platform to create truly sustainable oils and fats, starting with a replacement for palm oil, which is found in 50% of consumer products and is a major culprit of deforestation. The why: Palm oil is responsible for 1.4% of total GHG emissions, about as much as the entire aviation sector.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Critics say they are concerned about the possible effects GM mosquitoes could have on human health and the environment. Gorman maintains that the company is not required to report formal health impact studies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This biotechnology company is aiming to disrupt the dye industry and slash its environmental impacts. Biotechnology company Huue (pronounced hue) is on a mission to mimic and replicate nature's rainbow without the use of toxic chemicals. "We From benchtop to the supply chain.

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Fashion Biotechnology Pollution Demand 69

Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment. Green City Solutions' approach is based on biotechnology, a moss culture, which has the ability to attract air pollutants from its surroundings and convert them into its own biomass.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

JUNE 15, 2022

Critical issues also include regenerative inputs, carbon emissions, productivity, water quality and scarcity, soil health, crop diversity, labour supply and food supply. Ag and ecosystem biotechnology (e.g. crop and animal inputs, including microbiome, breeding, pollinators, and animal health). Farm equipment and gear (e.g.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. .

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In his two terms as Governor, Patrick oversaw the expansion of affordable health care to more than 98 percent of state residents, launched initiatives stimulating clean energy and biotechnology, won a national Race to the Top grant, and steered the state out of recession to a 25-year high in employment.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Elsewhere in Madrid, Dr. Jose Angel Barasona, a researcher at the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre, has reportedly found a vaccine that immunized wild boar against a highly virulent strain of the fever. Ida collects data from dairy cows that can detect health issues such as mastitis or lameness at least 24 hours before they are critical.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The membranes have the potential to be used in various sectors including wastewater treatment, for example to remove particular pollutants such as phosphate, and in biotechnology to extract valuable products from fermentation broth, such as vitamins and pharmaceuticals.

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Biotechnology Biotech Transportation Innovation 147

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Jonathan Rand, who is part of the biotechnology business unit at CPI, agreed that reducing the amount of farmland used for animal agriculture by using more cultivated meats could have a "massive" impact on the wider environment.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 48

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Over three years, the New Cotton Project will see textile waste collected and sorted via consumer apparel take-back programs, then regenerated into cellulose-based textile fibers by Finnish biotechnology specialist Infinited Fiber Company, the 12 project partners confirmed.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. Farmers as a group don't typically embrace change.

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 46

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The findings were published in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology , in work that brought together a multidisciplinary team including biologists, chemists, chemical engineers, and environmental scientists. Conventional sludge wastewater treatment programmes are ill-equipped to effectively process hospital wastewater. .”

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Biotechnology Microplastics Education Health 130

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A long-standing grail of biotechnology is the effort to convert the lignin component of plant-based biomass into energy or something useful – this being a less wasteful avenue than simply burning it or throwing it away. Not only is that expensive, it also is hazardous for public health.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

The Innovation of the Year is always one of the most competitive categories, but this year N2S won out with the judges thanks to its pioneering work to harness advanced biotechnology to tackle the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste and the huge environmental footprint that comes with it.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

We also work to improve plant biotechnologies and have contributed to proof-of-concept studies demonstrating that genome editing can be used to develop useful traits in barley, brassica and potatoes by deleting just a few letters of DNA. We're using an incredible amount of land and water for agriculture. Power in the seed system.

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Biotechnology Patents Agriculture Biodiversity 91

Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

There is also more to this industry than the climate and potential health benefits. But whilst the government has invested significantly in other solutions to tackling carbon emissions from food - for example food waste and agriculture - it has yet to do so in this sector.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For instance, according to studies from the National Institute of Health (NIH) , certain plastics found in consumer packaging can lead to cancers, diabetes, neurological disorders, hormonal imbalances, and other various ill-health effects caused by inhalation or direct contact. ” – Biodiversity and Health , WHO.

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Packaging Retail Innovation Sustainability 78

Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

💧 cimico , a Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain-based biotechnological wastewater treatment platform, raised $8M in Series A funding from Moira Capital Partners. A major public health concern as the geographic reach of malaria spreads.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. He asked me to help him find a solution to get rid of the milk waste," Luo remembers. .

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

She wants to attract new industries to the state like biotechnology and those that will be needed in the energy transition, like manufacturing of electric car parts and advanced nuclear reactors. Ben-David also believes her experience in wildlife management makes her uniquely qualified to get things done in Congress.

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