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Second quarter food startup roundup

GreenBiz

One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. Atomo Coffee.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

a sofa that upcycles 200 plastic water bottles) and renewable sugar-based packaging. Indoor air quality is critical to the health and wellbeing of your staff and visitors, in and beyond the lobby. Plants are also a great addition to a space, both aesthetically pleasing and good for the environment and public health.

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The best eco-friendly gifts for your grandparents

AGreenLiving

In addition to enriching the soil , flax requires less energy and water to manufacture into material than cotton. Upcycled cribbage board For the grandparent who enjoys classic game time, give the gift of cribbage with the added benefit of reusing materials off the street. Even better, linen is completely biodegradable.

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The case for climate-positive beef — In conversation with Vence founder Frank Wooten

Elemental Excelerator

In addition to improving profitability and productivity, the technology enables better grazing techniques that can improve soil health, stimulate grass productivity and root growth, and turn our vast grasslands into more efficient carbon sinks. If you think about it, a livestock farm is a grass factory and cows are upcyclers.

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Second quarter food startup roundup

AGreenLiving

One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives.

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Second quarter food startup roundup

AGreenLiving

One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

A newish concept, “upcycled food” — goods that “use ingredients that otherwise would not have gone to human consumption, are procured and produced using verifiable supply chains, and have a positive impact on the environment" — is being promoted by a nonprofit consortium called the Upcycled Food Association.