Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Crisp company aims to ‘bring potatoes full circle’ and improve soil health by producing farm fertiliser from potato leftovers its Leicester factory. Walkers plans to significantly cut its carbon emissions by creating low carbon fertiliser for its potato farmers from leftover potato peelings.

Carbon-negative 74

Carbon-negative Soil Agriculture Waste 74

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. These were BIV’s first African startups.

Investment 90

Investment Startups Africa Climate change 90

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is widely understood that human activity is having a severe negative impact on natural ecosystems all over the world, and only with greater investment in analysis and remedial action can these issues be addressed.

Pollution 221

Pollution Soil Fossil fuels Agriculture 221

Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 9, 2023

Because Myno’s process for producing biochar and carbon-negative energy from wood waste and forest-thinning slash piles will help our state reduce the risk of wildfires on our public lands. The remaining feedstock carbon will be sequestered as 40,000 tons of biochar each year. Wildfire risk will be significantly reduced.

Carbon-negative 52

Carbon-negative Energy Energy Carbon 52

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater.

Ozone 130

Ozone Soil Health Technology 130

Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The UK waste sector can be an enabler of wider economic decarbonisation while delivering the government's 'levelling up' agenda, writes Viridor's Tim Rotheray. That was the stark message of the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget. Waste is one of the hard-to-treat sectors. Act now, act fast and act everywhere.

Carbon-negative 44

Carbon-negative Waste Waste Recycling 44

Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

There are high hopes the rock could play a major role in the industrial-scale carbon removal scientists have warned is required to slow spiralling global temperatures. But now an industry is growing around the promise of fast-tracking this natural carbon sequestration process to help tackle climate change.

Carbon 44

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Soil 44

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

From electronic displays made from fish scales to sanitary products made from banana fibers, these inspiring innovations can capture human imagination and evoke an aspirational future free of toxins and litter, amongst other environmental improvements. . But these materials do more than strike awe and inspiration. Producing just 2.69

Technology 545

Technology Building Energy Monitoring Packaging Carbon-negative 545

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Huyghe from INRAE notes that Europe can reduce pesticides without any fall in yields if proper support is given to agroecological innovations. Most important of all, academics, campaigners, and the European Commission , say the impacts of failing to act on the extinction crisis far outweigh any predicted negative impacts of green reforms.

Europe 93

Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 93

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Ocean acidification 36

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. The innovators say we can. Much will depend on where financiers put their capital. Scientists say we must.

Climate change 63

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon Electric vehicle 63

Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Every ton of carbon emitted raises the temperature a tiny bit and reduces air quality, but companies never pay for those costs to society, also known as externalities. Many leading companies internalize the externalities by putting a “shadow price” on carbon inside the business (some collect real money as a self-imposed tax).

Investment 147

Investment Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 147

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

Sustainability 520

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

💨 Yard Stick , a Cambridge, MA-based soil carbon monitoring platform, raised $12M in Series A funding from Extantia Capital, Breakthrough, Lowercarbon Capital, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Pillar VC, and other investors. Stripe launches Climate Orders for businesses to pre-order carbon removal.

Energy Monitor 61

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 61

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. At beauty and hygiene products company Lush, for example, working to implement zero-waste when possible has led to innovation across the board. But solutions exist, and we wrote about them. Media Source.

Sustainability 540

Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 540

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

Business Energy Monitoring 28

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Hydrogen 28

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. Finally, there are the innovators — entrepreneurs who see gold in all that green.

Carbon-negative 545

Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 545

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. Innovation marches forward. A large and globally impactful number of innovations are coming into play just in the nick of time.

Politics 466

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 466

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Reduce growth in demand (replace food loss and waste; shift diets; achieve replacement level fertility rates; phase out crop based biofuels). The challenge is sufficiently large, however, that many solutions will require technological innovations. Rather, the WRI lays out a menu of 22 solutions served over five courses : .

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

Business Green

APRIL 25, 2024

All with the aim of meeting the three key tenets of a circular economy: eliminating waste; improving the lifecycle of devices; and supporting nature and the communities we operate in. For brands, this means designing out any negative impacts from the start. Innovation, therefore, is key.

Earth Day 40

Earth Day Plastics Carbon-negative Recycling 40

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

Innovation 105

Innovation Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 105

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! I was particularly interested in the discussions around plastic packaging and waste throughout the event. Furthermore, I learned that I am not alone in my mission to create a greener, more equitable world.

Sustainability 409

Sustainability Plastics Innovation Education 409

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 360 ppm. Our reality.

Business Energy Monitoring 158

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Carbon-negative Climate change 158

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Hold unconscious bias training to help employees understand how such biases work and how they can negatively affect team members and team interactions. Do you and/or your company responsibly dispose of hazardous waste, e.g. batteries, paints, and/or electronics? How can you implement this initiative in your business?

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We heard stories from the 19 entrepreneurs and innovators in Cohort 9 on why they started their companies and how they’re looking to bend the future. Innovation Is Rooted in Tradition. Matt Silver and his team at Cambrian Innovation are recovering sustainable resources from wastewater. Carbon negative materials.

Carbon-negative 98

Carbon-negative Geothermal power Upcycling Innovation 98

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

From electronic displays made from fish scales to sanitary products made from banana fibers, these inspiring innovations can capture human imagination and evoke an aspirational future free of toxins and litter, amongst other environmental improvements. But these materials do more than strike awe and inspiration. .” Producing just 2.69

Technology 28

Technology Packaging Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 28

Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

Carbon-negative 40

Carbon-negative Carbon Agriculture Transportation 40

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Animals waste can be a great source for biomass which produces of alternative fuels that can be used to replace fossil fuels. In addition, inexhaustible innovations can progressively spare clients cash as they uproot discharges from petroleum derivatives. Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes.

Solar Energy Monitor 40

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 40

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. Finally, there are the innovators — entrepreneurs who see gold in all that green.

Carbon-negative 36

Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 36

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

To begin with, the government would need to introduce targets that deliver improvements in four key priority areas, including air quality, water quality, nature and resource efficiency - although this could be broadened over time to other key areas such as soils. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

Business Energy Monitoring 49

Business Energy Monitoring Investment Climate change Government 49

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Many schools including the schools on this list have demonstrated that they are both resourcefulness innovative in their efforts to achieve their sustainability objectives. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

Cooling 52

Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 52

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. At beauty and hygiene products company Lush, for example, working to implement zero-waste when possible has led to innovation across the board In fashion, similarly, going the extra mile takes an innovative approach.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Plastics Climate change Agriculture 28

AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

” For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. Innovation marches forward A large and globally impactful number of innovations are coming into play just in the nick of time.

Politics 36

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Climate change 36

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity. Water scarcity.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Twenty startups joined our community in Q3 2021, working on innovations as diverse as carbon-negative fats, energy-efficient membrane materials for chemical separations, and scalable electric vehicle charging solutions for high-density urban settings. Agtech + water. Transportation.

Startups 104

Startups Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 104

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. The Ottawa-based startup is bringing to scale a process that generates hydrogen by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, then storing it within seawater, mimicking the ocean’s natural processes to create a carbon sink.

Building Energy Monitoring 528

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 528