"The MerMade bins come from a Los Angeles-based startup that bills itself as 'a creative collective that helps people reimagine traditional plastic products by using certified ocean plastic.'"
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Climate Catalysts: Fantastic Fungi
"Amazingly, scientists have discovered that by inoculating the soil with the right species of fungi, plants growing in that soil become stronger and more resilient and can actually grow more quickly as well."
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How AI Can Help Airlines Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
AirAsia’s recent success with digital solutions is a model in sustainable aviation.
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Toyota’s Silicon Valley Venture Arm Gets $300 Million Infusion, Launches Climate Fund
"While Toyota has a massive multibillion-dollar R&D budget to develop better materials, electronics, software, advanced batteries and hydrogen fuel cell systems for its cars and trucks, Toyota Ventures is on the lookout for promising, small startups with technology that could eventually be both lucrative and potentially benefit the automaker’s global operations."
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End the War on Nuclear Power—Start with Radiation
"Nuclear energy is the cleanest, safest, densest, and most reliable energy source. The value proposition for nuclear energy is unparalleled; it’s the only commercially proven, dispatchable clean energy technology that can be scaled up fast enough to meet the demand for electricity in a decarbonizing scenario."
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Wyoming to house first-of-its-kind advanced nuclear project replacing coal plant
Abby Smith of The Washington Examiner reports that Wyoming will house a first-of-its-kind advanced nuclear project to replace a coal-fired power plant. “The TerraPower demonstration project will be located at the site of one of PacifiCorp’s retiring coal-fired power plants. The companies haven’t chosen which retiring coal plant yet but are expected to announce the...
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Lamborghini hits accelerator on electric future
"Italian sports car maker Lamborghini on Tuesday unveiled Tuesday a 1.5-billion-euro ($1.8 billion) electrification plan for its luxury vehicles, joining a global push away from fossil fuels at the risk of upsetting fans."
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Finland Breaks Ground On World’s First Deep Geologic Nuclear Waste Repository
"About one hundred deposition tunnels will be excavated during the 100-year operational period. The repository will total a length of about 35 kilometers, with each tunnel being about 4.5 meters high, 3.5 meters wide and 350 meters long, each holding about 30 canisters."
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Are The Risks Of Nuclear Energy Overblown?
"All of these stories are worrying--but they are not the full picture. But the reality is that nuclear energy is much, much safer than many of us are led to believe. In fact, a 2013 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology found that up to that point, nuclear energy had actually saved an estimated 2 million lives since 1971."
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Solar Design Startup Aurora Reaches Unicorn Status After $250 Million Funding Round
"Using features such as automated photovoltaic system design, lidar-based shade analysis and AI-assisted 3-D modeling, a solar installer using the Aurora software can save money as well as the time normally required to travel to the location of the installation, capturing its sunlight exposure and processing the results, ahead of providing a customer with a quote."
