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Big Oil Firms Touted Algae as Climate Solution. Now All Have Pulled Funding

DeSmogBlog

By Amy Westervelt, The Guardian. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Posewitz’s algae lab was funded by Exxon for eight years. And that’s what you want.

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'Mission-focused' investment firm The Craftory becomes a B Corp

Business Green

Chris Turner, executive director of B Lab UK, the British arm of the broader B Corp movement, said he hoped The Craftory's promotion would "inspire other investors" and help "spread the idea that we can redefine success in business to be as much about people and planet as it is about profit.".

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Nurdles? The worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of.

Grist

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. And we know from lab studies that when a fish eats a pellet, some of those pollutants come loose.”. Pollutants can be a million times more concentrated on the surface of pellets than in the water,” he says.

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Horseshoe crab blood remains industry standard for big pharma

AGreenLiving

Maryland-based US Pharmacopeia (USP) has blocked this effort. Some drug companies are already using the synthetic tests to improve human health. Eli Lilly uses rFC for testing Emgality, a migraine treatment. Unlike most lab animals, the horseshoe crabs are captured, bled and released.

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Nanotechnology turns Bricks into Batteries

Mr. Sustainability

This article is taken from the Guardian and added upon. A solar cell on the roof of your house has to store electricity somewhere and typically we use batteries,” said Julio D’Arcy, at Washington University in St Louis, US, who was part of the research team. A brick costs only about 3 dollars to make.

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

Climate Tech VC

🍃 Credit registration body Verra’s CEO resigned following a bombshell Guardian exposé, marking a perilous year for carbon. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results. Send us a note !  Breaking a 50-year trend in the US, the first non-water nuclear reactor, the Hermes, is approved.

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Open Letter Warns Us to Stop Wasting Time and Act Now

Green Market Oracle

Science is central to the demands in the letter, specifically adopting science-based binding carbon budgets, "which gives us the best possible odds to limit the global average temperature rise to below 1.5 °C." Our current system is not ‘broken’ – the system is doing exactly what it’s supposed and designed to be doing. We need a new system."

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