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Rental e-scooters to be made legal on UK roads from Saturday

Business Green

Department of Transport announces that local authorities across the UK can apply to trial e-scooters as part of a year-long trial that will test the cost-effectiveness and convenience of the low-carbon mobility solution embraced by other European countries. Any local authority can now apply to trial rental e-scooters, the government said.

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Dry Cleaning Sustainability: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. It is recommended that employees providing services use eco-friendly transportation such as scooters and electric vehicles. .

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Sustainable Dry Cleaners: Getting Started Guide

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. It is recommended that employees providing services use eco-friendly transportation such as scooters and electric vehicles. .

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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

💨 Yard Stick , a Cambridge, MA-based soil carbon monitoring platform, raised $11M in Series A funding from Toyota Ventures, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, The Nature Conservancy, Lowercarbon, Breakthrough, and Pillar VC. India produces a new electric scooter every 90 seconds. Building batteries in the sand.

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? Alterra’s $30B bridge for climate financing #176

Climate Tech VC

🛵 Baaz Bikes , a New Delhi, India-based electric scooter manufacturer, raised $8M in Series A funding from Big Capital, Rakuten Capital, Kalaari Capital, and 9Unicorns.  

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The Future of Transportation is Green: A Pollution-Free World

The Environmental Blog

Thus, you can ride your e-bike to work without worrying about soiling your clothes or tiring yourself even before work starts. Because you can rely on the battery’s power for added speed, you can still cover long distances without exerting too much effort.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data.