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

GreenBiz

The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. . As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

AGreenLiving

They regularly use excess resources/wastes and byproducts, aiming to reduce use of plastics by replacing them in various products they create. Biohm is working to address several planetary challenges at once: the climate crisis, waste crisis and social injustice.

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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 the majority opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg wrote that both Indian law and the need to treat people equally “preclude the Tribe from rekindling embers of sovereignty that long ago grew cold.”

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

AGreenLiving

The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.

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

AGreenLiving

The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.

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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. . Last summer, Ponomareva was part of the team that rolled out SFO’s plastic water bottle ban — the first such ban at a major U.S. Heather Clancy.