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Newlight Selects Black & Veatch To Design 'Aircarbon' Production Plant in Ohio

3BL Media

July 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Looking to significantly expand its regenerative practice of transforming air and greenhouse gas into a biodegradable, plastic-like material called “Aircarbon,” Newlight Technologies has chosen decarbonization solutions leader Black & Veatch to design the biotechnology company’s first commercial-scale plant.

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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

GreenBiz

When he heard Interface legend Ray Anderson position Interface as a regenerative company by 2020, he thought the man had lost his mind. Interface invited suppliers into its factories for sustainability summits in 2003, showing off practices that suppliers themselves could mimic. Ten years earlier, Bonazzi was on the other side.

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Dead Dolphins, Radioactive Mountains: Inside Florida’s Phosphorus Crisis

Sense and Sustainability

billion more gallons of wastewater were dumped into Tampa Bay between 2003 and 2007. In 2003, a top state regulator called Piney Point “one of the biggest environmental threats in Florida history.” Here, regenerative agriculture comes into play. Under state control after the plant’s closure, 1.1

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Climate Emergency Risks Stranding Women

Chris Hall

US-based private equity asset manager EcoEnterprises Fund targets investments across regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and the circular economy that have a positive impact on local communities and the natural ecosystems they depend on.

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These circular cities want to send landfills to the trash bin of history

Corporate Knights

San Francisco has paved the way in waste reduction with a steady stream of initiatives, beginning with a 2003 Zero Waste resolution to stop landfill dumping by 2020. Beyond the bold policies, lofty aspirations and savvy entrepreneurs, there has to be a fundamental shift in mentality It also requires bold policy.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. LinkedIn | Company profile. "The

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

And like many agricultural companies, Cargill is investing in regenerative agriculture, with the goal of advancing practices such as planting cover crops or rotational grazing on 10 million acres. . "I The goal: to cultivate more water — and habitat in those watersheds — than it uses in its plants by 2050.