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Plan It Native landscape conference goes virtual

Greenability Magazine

Doug Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. Their extensive root systems retain more water than traditional lawns, which reduces stormwater run-off, mitigates flooding and traps significant amounts of carbon.

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What we’re looking to fund for Cohort 11

Elemental Excelerator

Second, our nonprofit mission: Redesigning systems at the root of the climate crisis drives our work with startups, to help fast-track the sustainable and equitable deployment of technologies the world needs to help solve climate change. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment. Zero Carbon. Built Environment.

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Earth Day goes big & virtual again

Greenability Magazine

Carbon Footprint Eating , Carbon Footprint Eating. Heart & Soil , CinemaKC. Federal Carbon-Pricing Legislation , Citizens Climate Lobby KC. Starting Small: Simple Steps to a More Sustainable Lifestyle – The Resilient Activist. “Sew”-stainability , The Sewing Labs. Sunday, April 18. Sunday, April 18.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

Our members continue to amaze us with their commitment to sustainability and their innovative green and social responsibility initiatives. We’ve selected six members who stood out, created great greener businesses and demonstrated their commitment to sustainability with tangible actions and results! Operating in most major U.S.

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Meet the Innovators in Elemental Excelerator’s 9th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

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?

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What we’re looking to fund in Cohort 10

Elemental Excelerator

” Our goal is to ensure clean drinking water and sustainability of water use in the face of these mounting threats. Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. We are particularly interested in innovations around: Soil health and carbon sequestration technologies. Digital and financial solutions.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

Alaska has also become a hub for kelp farming, which the report says can help suck up carbon, reduce acidification, and create jobs. In Hawaiʻi, some advocates are exploring the possibility of a zoning category for “traditional lands” that would support sustainable housing communities along with culturally rooted farming and fishing.