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Sustainable funerals: Part 1 – with Ethical.net

Low Impact

Planning a sustainable funeral means rejecting environmentally damaging practices and finding more ethical and responsible options. A study by the Cremation Association of North America has found that filtering crematorium fumes has little effect on the toxins released. They aim to make ethical the new normal.

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Greentown Houston Is Here—Meet Our 25+ Inaugural Startups

Greentown Labs

Eclipse Solar Projects finances, develops, owns, and operates utility-scale solar projects in North America through newly developed technology and potential battery storage operations. Footprint is a web-based enterprise software solution for climate education and action. Transportation.

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Tesla’s Battery Day from a Maritime Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

In North America, Europe and China this will take place well before 2030. The ramp up plan from its pilot lithium-ion battery plant in California, with its 10 GWh annual capacity, includes an order of magnitude leap for Tesla to 100 GWh by 2022 before ballooning to 3 TWh by 2030.

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Cobalt-free batteries will make EVs more affordable

AGreenLiving

Related: Tesla: the real environmental impact Cobalt is used in the cathode — “negatively charged electrode by which electrons enter an electrical device,” according to Dictionary.com — of lithium -ion batteries. Much of cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sometimes via child slavery.

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? The BFD with BYD #169

Climate Tech VC

Side-by-side: BYD vs Tesla This news may come as a surprise to those focused on the EV market in North America, but in many ways, Tesla is borrowing BYD’s playbook. It’s been making its own batteries since the days before US automakers were even thinking about lithium-ion supply chains.