"The biotech company, which said it is the first to pioneer an entirely biological dyeing process, is looking to enter into an industrial scale-up after its first customer implementation with the Valérius Group, Portugal."
Why nuclear energy is on the verge of a renaissance
Catherine Clifford of CNBC writes about why nuclear energy is on the verge of a renaissance. “That’s largely because nuclear energy is clean energy, releasing no greenhouse gasses. Meanwhile, the world is seeing more of the effects of climate change, including rising global temperatures, increased pollution, wildfires, and more intense and deadly storms.” Read the full article...
A Novel Way To Prevent Food Waste And Up-cycle Fruit
"RIND contracts with fruit packing companies and processors to turn the fruit into thinly sliced, dried, ready to eat snacks with a long shelf life. Their product line includes various mixes of oranges, mandarins, apples, pears, kiwis, strawberries, bananas, coconut, watermelon, honeydew melon, peaches, persimmons and pineapple."
An oil-company spinoff wants to help build 70 direct air capture plants by 2035
"1PointFive plans to use some of the captured CO2 from the first plant for enhanced oil recovery, a process that helps get more oil out of old wells. If the CO2 added to the well stays underground, it can make the extracted oil nearly carbon neutral when it’s burned."
Farmers’ new fixes
"These changes are largely focused on long-term sustainability. But Schwagerl, who serves as vice president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, says cover crops proved their worth 'pretty darn quickly.' Within a year of planting, the soil 'looks better and we get a little bump in our yield' for her regular grains."
8 Rivers Capital Aims to Speed Up Decarbonization Efforts in Asia
8 Rivers Capital, a Durham, North Carolina-based clean technology firm on a mission to decarbonize the global economy by 2050. The company recently secured a $100 million investment from South Korean industrial conglomerate SK Group.
Regrow Ag Secures $38M Series B Funding to Continue Leading Companies to Use Agriculture to Meet Net-Zero Targets
"Regrow will use the funding to deepen the reach of its customer programs in key food-producing regions across the globe, connecting more farmers to the benefits of regenerative agriculture and revenue streams provided by ecosystem markets. Regrow will continue to invest in strengthening its partnerships, empowering more organizations on their path to net-zero, and growing one of the most qualified and passionate teams in the industry."
Early Tesla investor DBL Partners leads $70 million investment in logistics firm Airspace
"'Airspace is unique in its ability to provide complete transparency into the carbon footprint of time-critical deliveries, enabling customers to optimize routes with the least possible environmental impact,' Ira Ehrenpreis, founder and managing partner at DBL Partners, said in a press release."
Electric Bills Rising — How Much More Will You Have to Spend?
Josephine Nesbit writes for GoBankingRates about electric bill prices. “’The higher price is largely driven by supply and demand,’ Nick Loris, vice president of public policy for C3 Solutions, explained to Fox 11. ‘Particularly with natural gas, which provides 38% of our electricity needs, we’ve been operating in an environment of constrained supply and higher...
World’s largest facility to grow ‘cultivated meat’ to be built in the US
"The process of meat cultivation involves using a bioreactor where cells sourced from cell banks or eggs of the livestock animals can be grown. A bioreactor is a large vessel that provides the cells with all the necessary nutrients and conditions for optimal growth. Once the cells reach a certain stage, they can be harvested."