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'Balancing the books on CO2': Tide undertakes 'world first' biochar purchase

Business Green

Biochar, a charcoal-like soil matter produced when waste biomass is heated in a very low-oxygen environment, is capable of drawing large amounts of carbon dioxide down from the atmosphere, and has therefore attracted increasing interest and investment as an engineered CO2 removal solution.

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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Ecommerce businesses gain from this in various ways, such as enhancing their corporate reputation, being ready for climate change policies, maintaining industry competition, and appealing to consumers and workers. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Electrified technologies are already well understood and many are widely available to consumers, such as electric stovetops and heat pumps, Griffith noted.

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Natural England chair urges government to stay the course on green farming subsidy plans

Business Green

The head of England's nature agency is to tell an audience of farmers and food businesses in a speech today that rolling back nature protection efforts risks an "existential threat" to national food security. It's sometimes said that you can't go green if you're in the red," Juniper will say.