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Toast Ale Aims To Reduce Food Waste While Educating Consumers About The Global Problem
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Toast Ale Aims To Reduce Food Waste While Educating Consumers About The Global Problem

"Using surplus bread to brew beer, they hope to create a circular economy that produces tasty, sustainable beverages. Their circular economy model, which is regenerative by design, reduces the need for barley by using bread that otherwise would go to waste. This practice is designed to use less land, water, and energy, and avoid carbon emissions. But the company’s biggest mission is to educate people about wastefulness within the food system and their role in changing that."

Wealthy Progressives: We Love Wind Power, Except When It’s Near Us
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Wealthy Progressives: We Love Wind Power, Except When It’s Near Us

"One of the few remaining snags could be a group of residents of the exclusive hamlet of Wainscott who don’t want the cable carrying power from the windmills to be buried under a street that runs to the beach. Even though digging has begun, they are still waging legal battles on several fronts that could delay construction or further complicate the project."

Transforming Trees Into Skyscrapers
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Transforming Trees Into Skyscrapers

Rebecca Mead of The New Yorker writes about timber skyscrapers. online pharmacy https://www.orthobilthoven.nl/wp-content/uploads/revslider/templates/360panorama/metformin.html no prescription “Lumber pillars, given their earlier incarnation as trees, retain carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere. One cubic metre of glulam timber stores about seven hundred kilograms of carbon dioxide. About eighteen thousand trees were required to produce the wood products...

How to cut off Russian oil and gas to Europe without causing chaos
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How to cut off Russian oil and gas to Europe without causing chaos

"A decade ago, Putin denounced the 'fracking' shale revolution, recognizing it as a threat. He was right to worry. If the United States had not gone from importing 60 percent of its oil to becoming the world’s No. 1 producer and, this year, the world’s largest exporter of LNG, Europe might now be his hostage. Now, Putin has revealed just how formidable a strategic asset U.S. oil and gas is — not only for the United States but also, in this deepening crisis, for Europe."

Pandemic recovery is slightly greener
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Pandemic recovery is slightly greener

“'[T]he world still needs to massively expand its clean energy deployment efforts throughout this decade, first and foremost in developing economies, if we are going to preserve the hope of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C,' he said."

Don’t Let China Control Our Energy Future
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Don’t Let China Control Our Energy Future

"It’s clear that we must decouple from China if we are to avoid a situation similar to the one unfolding in Europe. This means being serious about investing in clean-energy innovation here in the United States and about creating a regulatory environment that stimulates investment, rather than scares it off."

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