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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

Even Smog Armor’s packaging is designed to be as sustainable as possible. is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. Ginkgo Sustainability Inc.

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Green Infrastructure Project Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

This individual will develop, design, and implement green stormwater infrastructure projects that prioritize vegetative practices and community benefit while being functional, constructable and maintainable. Greenprint is an environmental consulting and project development firm exclusively dedicated to green stormwater infrastructure.

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Striving for environmental balance: nutrient neutrality to futureproof the development pipeline

Envirotec Magazine

This is particularly important because excess nutrients, when carried by stormwater runoff or treatment works discharge, can contribute to water pollution, leading to issues like eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. The paper announced a series of initiatives to tackle the issue and safeguard the environment.

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

Green Business Bureau

Ginkgo Sustainability is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. It is also through this reconnection with nature that mental and physical health is improved.

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

Working with cities and counties across the country, StormSensor’s technology is mitigating urban flooding, reducing vulnerabilities in coastal, wastewater and stormwater systems, and helping communities adapt to a changing climate — all at the same time. Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, co-founders, Novoloop ( LinkedIn ).

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

If anything is going to change, they say, plastic production and packaging choices around the world need to shift. “It So, that’s just polyethylene terephthalate, which is a regular water bottle or packaging.”. But the plastics being found in sediments and organisms are often microfibers, she says.

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What we’re looking to fund in Cohort 10

Elemental Excelerator

Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. Green materials, chemicals and packaging. Digital and financial solutions. Systems enabling water reuse and resource recovery. Solutions for emerging contaminants and contaminants-of-concern (ex. PFAS and PFOA, pharmaceuticals, micro-plastics). Process optimization technologies.