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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

They seek to solve it with a combination of Internet of Things (IoT) and plants, providing clean and cool air to hot urban cities. Creating a solution to clean air Green City Solutions tries to fight the problem of air pollution worldwide.

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Scientists found a new ally in the fight to clean up CO2 emissions: ‘Chonkus’

Grist

Typically, biotech industries that use cyanobacteria and algae need to separate them from the water they grow in. Chonkus’ peanut butter consistency is important for the strain’s potential in green biotechnologies. Because Chonkus does so naturally with gravity, Schubert says, it could make the process more efficient.

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Scientists found a new ally in the fight to clean up CO2 emissions: ‘Chonkus’

Grist

Typically, biotech industries that use cyanobacteria and algae need to separate them from the water they grow in. Chonkus’ peanut butter consistency is important for the strain’s potential in green biotechnologies. Because Chonkus does so naturally with gravity, Schubert says, it could make the process more efficient.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Biotech giant Genentech is a surprising fleet leader: It's got the most aggressive electric commuter bus programs around, in addition to its other EV fleet goals. It's not just about cool tech, though. One of Genentech's electric buses, made by BYD. Media Authorship. Close Authorship.

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UK startup creates ‘smart’ plastic that self-destructs in the sea

Envirotec Magazine

The company also won the IBioIC Award, a prize presented to an innovative biotech business with a product or process that addresses a real market need, netting £20,000 for the University of Edinburgh. “We’re The Net Zero category also saw SolarSub from the University of Edinburgh as runner-up.

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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — January 2022

Greentown Labs

Infinite Cooling received a $100K Phase I SBIR grant from the U.S. Phytoform Labs was named one of 20 European Biotech Companies to Watch in 2022 by Labiotech. Radical Plastics received a $650K Phase II SBIR grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Building Program.

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How behavioural science can boost the green transition

Smart Energy International

Even the acceptance of objectively positive interventions like those proposed by the European W.E.District project , which aims to develop innovative 100% fossil free heating and cooling solutions for new and existing district heating and cooling systems, could be threatened by human bias. “It Resistance to change? About the author.