Alternatives to synthetic fertilizers have been around for a while, but the war in Ukraine has recently made these alternatives more lucrative. Ammonia prices have tripled since 2020, and many farmers are looking for cheaper – and greener – solutions. Here are three companies that are changing the game.
Climate Lockdowns Aren’t the Answer to Lowering Emissions
Preventing economic prosperity not only produces harmful negative externalities: it is also an extremely costly way to eliminate emissions.
Simplifyber Secures $3.5M Seed Investment to Reinvent How Clothing is Made, with Sustainable, Advanced Manufacturing
"The company has developed a novel approach to clothing and accessory manufacturing that removes traditional spinning, weaving, cutting, and sewing and replaces it with a sustainable, less resource-intensive process, and fully biodegradable solution – cutting out 60% of the steps and reducing the 35% of materials in the fashion supply chain that ends up as waste."
Global nuclear hydrogen group forms
"The group plans to pursue nuclear hydrogen demonstration projects, engage the financial sector to finance such technologies, and advocate for policies that support deploying nuclear hydrogen, members tell Axios. It is not a lobbying organization, however."
Clean Energy Champions Are Found in the States, Not Washington, D.C.
"While President Biden likes to use conservatives in Washington as a scapegoat for his Administration’s inability to produce climate solutions, it is conservative governors who are showing America how carbon emissions can be reduced without compromising their conservative principles."
Tragedy of the Commons Plagues Alaska’s Area M
A proper solution that emphasizes property rights and tradable permits will help the user groups both get the fish they need without depleting the resource, leaving enough for future generations.
Jackson, Miss., Is Out of Running Water After Treatment Plant Pumps Fail
"A possible failure at the plant had been looming for weeks. Mr. Reeves said the facility had been operating on small backup pumps after the main pumps were severely damaged. He added that city officials had agreed to pay for half of the emergency improvement costs at the plant."
Startup makes pre-fab high rises like Boeing makes airplanes, aiming to reduce emissions
Assembly it is focused on high-rise buildings between 10 and 30 stories high. That will offer the biggest impact on both the current housing shortage and climate change."
What Europe’s ‘Due Diligence Proposal’ Gets Wrong
To truly tackle deforestation, we will have to work together constructively – the EU’s Due Diligence Proposal does not take us any closer to that goal.
For The U.S., There Is No Net-Zero Without Major Permitting Reform
"We’ve installed a labyrinthine permit approval process that drastically stalls or outright blocks important infrastructure projects from ever getting constructed. The average is nearly five years and $4.2 million just to complete the review process, that is before developers can even start building. The median Environmental Impact Statement is more than 600 pages long."
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