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How transforming the mica supply chain transforms lives

GreenBiz

It's really intimidating for folks to open up there, to open up their books or have you talk to their employees or go into their mines. One result of the November 2019 trip to Jharkhand was the creation of a proprietary blockchain-based traceability tool, in which suppliers share their sourcing data with Sourcemap.

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Marga Hoek on Capital, Technology & Inspiration: the 3 keys to unlock Sustainability

Terra Infirma

The former book sets out the trillion dollar investment opportunity presented by the Sustainable Development Goals while the latter looks at the Sustainability opportunities set out by innovations such as AI, blockchain and robotics.

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. In short, in the words of a recent Wired overview of the technology , blockchain creates “tamperproof databases.”

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Sustainable Aviation Fuel blockchain solution to offer business travel credits

Business Green

A new blockchain platform has been launched that aims to offer airlines a way to sell Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) credits to business customers, with the revenue channelled into supporting the development of the nascent lower carbon fuel sector.

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A lopsided prospectus? Commentators appraise the Spring Budget

Envirotec Magazine

In a 2022 book, climate technology specialist Wake Smith estimated that there is demand for about 1% of the CO2 that is anthropogenically produced. Hunt’s new focus on nuclear received criticism from those concerned about its unresolved problems, such as waste disposal, as well as those who thought it just wasn’t the best tool for the job.

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Carbon-captured net-zero cement launches

Envirotec Magazine

For both products, Heidelberg says the carbon-capture attributes are transparent and traceable by harnessing the power of blockchain technology through which customers will receive a verifiable carbon proof for their evoZero purchase.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. And modern society has caught up with that, of course. How exciting.