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Outdoor gear company Arc'teryx flies toward a circular economy

GreenBiz

Wed, 05/19/2021 - 10:14. Now, it’s ready to share more of that story with its customers, who spend time climbing, hiking and skiing in those mountains and peaks in other parts of the world. It was receiving jackets that were sometimes beyond repair and could end up being thrown away. Deonna Anderson.

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Sustainable business in 2021: Five things we learned

Business Green

To help, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I've plumbed the 1,400 or so stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the clock struck 2021 some 12 months ago, seeking signs of progress and hope. But, as I said, it can be hard to see all this progress amid the fog of dismal daily headlines.

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Today’s wind turbine blades could become tomorrow’s bridges

Grist

By April, the bridge will be complete, and the Cork County Council will pick it up and install it on a bicycle route connecting the towns of Youghal and Middletown. If you are talking about a sustainable, renewable fuel source, it’s not appropriate to then pollute the environment with materials that are decommissioned,” Bank said.

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The world’s first ‘carbon-neutral’ cargo ship is already low on gas

Grist

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. The policy is accelerating efforts to test, pilot, and scale up more sustainable fuels. “A

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After the Texas freeze, people are asking: Is electrifying buildings risky?

Grist

Renovate buildings and redesign cars to run entirely on electricity, power them with renewable energy from the sun and wind, and bing, bam, boom, you’ve just knocked out a majority of the carbon entering the atmosphere. It just means we need to be thoughtful that we don’t set ourselves up for bigger failure.”. In the U.S.,

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

For a while things had been looking up for Charm Industrial. The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. And in that moment of doubt, he nearly blew everything up. “I It felt like their boat was leaking.

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Outdoor gear company Arc’teryx flies toward a circular economy

AGreenLiving

Outdoor gear company Arc’teryx flies toward a circular economy Deonna Anderson Wed, 05/19/2021 – 10:14 In the front yard of the Coast Mountains in North Vancouver, Canada, Arc’teryx, an outdoor clothing and climbing gear company, is building a circular economy. ” Why now?