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Vodka made from captured carbon dioxide? That’s the spirit.

Grist

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. The team hopes that selling a consumer product will allow it to scale up its pilot system for making alcohol, so that the company can expand into alternative fuels, plastic-making chemicals, or other markets.

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Five creative visions for the future, from Looking Forward’s readers

Grist

All around, sturdy seawalls, floating solar arrays, and kelp-farming scaffolds break the waves and wind. Real plastic is down to 10 percent of everything now. “I’ve often wondered — even if we stop making plastic at this moment, what will we do with all that we already have? .”

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. For Ghislain Irakoze, it was a startup helping boost electronics waste reuse and recycling in Rwanda.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. For Ghislain Irakoze, it was a startup helping boost electronics waste reuse and recycling in Rwanda.