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5 circular economy startups we've got our eyes on

GreenBiz

In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

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Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. By 2013, following several years of studying, research and development, Hijosa had a Ph.D., a new material in tow, and had founded London-based Ananas Anam. Producing just 2.69

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? With Michael Braungart, 2013. It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. The number of standalone lab-greening efforts has grown since Harvard-trained neuroscientist Allison Paradise created My Green Lab in 2013, from about 10 to 90 groups that engage tens of thousands of scientists around the world.

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Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways

GreenBiz

Negative/exclusionary screening (44.6 As part of the Corporate Governance Roadmaps, first introduced in 2013, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to require its largest listed companies, and those in specific industries (food, chemicals, finance and insurance) to produce sustainability reports in line with the latest GRI Standards.

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7 Transmission Projects That Could Unlock a Renewable Energy Bounty

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The gap is growing between the transmission network’s capacity and the need to link wind farms in the Great Plains and Intermountain West , solar farms in the Southwest, and hydropower resources in eastern Canada, to other regions hungry for carbon-free energy.

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