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$38 million renewable fund to offset blockchain energy use in US

Smart Energy International

Green cryptocurrency mining demonstrated Energy Web, RMI, AIR partner on green blockchain action. In time, the goal is for its blockchain to become carbon negative. Among the main of these is Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-powered decentralised cloud storage network. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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What does digital art have to do with sustainability?

GreenBiz

Beyond raising funds, the foundation aimed to raise awareness about the potential for digital technologies to address climate change, as well as their potential negative impact. Blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) recently have made a big splash in the art world and beyond. Moving away from proof of work.

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The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'

GreenBiz

"As lawyers, we're concerned, because if there is no federal preemption, then there will be a multitude of litigation against the companies with respect to activities that they take that may be considered to be negative due to the climate change," she said. The risks of not sharing. The power of metaphor.

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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact

GreenBiz

This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact. In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda’s project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain — and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year. Hence, Covalent’s ability to make a carbon-negative claim. .

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Technology Trending: Mg-ion batteries, hydrogen innovation lab, landfill methane for Bitcoin mining

Smart Energy International

million from the blockchain investment firm Polychain Capital and others, the company plans to pilot its micro-turbine technology in the ‘golden state’, which it says, will be a first. Vespene Energy is a Berkeley, California-based company with the vision of converting methane gas released from landfills into power for Bitcoin mining.

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Why batteries can and should have 'passports' soon

Business Green

These benefits cannot be obtained, however, unless far-reaching collaborative action is undertaken with a view to sustainably scaling up the battery value chain and avoiding negative impacts. Consider the Mining and Metals Blockchain Initiative. Innovation is central to this transition.