How a Rare Earth Facility in Canada Wants to Clean Up the Dirty Side of Green Energy

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By John Lorinc, Corporate Knights The plant in Saskatchewan won’t just showcase less environmentally damaging processes. It also wants to take a bite out of a supply chain dominated by China. At some point this year, in an unprepossessing 120,000-square-foot box on the outskirts of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, technicians will flip …

Inside the Amazon’s Tallest Treehouse, Where Peruvians are Taught to Combat Deforestation with Tech

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By Euronews Green Education is changing the lives of Indigenous Peruvians in the Amazon. From a classroom in the Amazon’s tallest treehouse, young Peruvians are learning how to defend their rainforest home. Nestled in the crown of a strangler fig tree, the rangers have a bird’s eye view over the …

This State is Quickly Becoming America’s Clean Energy Paradise. Here’s How it’s Happening.

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By Elizabeth Weise, USA Today Americans don’t have to imagine what it’s like to live someplace that’s aggressively switching to 100% clean energy, where one in three people has rooftop solar, 15% of new cars are electric and giant batteries store energy for use when the sun goes down. They just have to go to Hawaii. …

MIT Researchers Have Discovered a Remarkable New Way to Clean Up Air Pollution — By Starting With Our Oceans

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By Brett Aresco, Yahoo Tech from The Cool Down Carbon capture — commonly thought of as the use of technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air — is a hotly debated topic. Though the U.S. Department of Energy committed $131 million to various carbon capture projects, opponents claim that focus on carbon capture …

Louisiana’s Drought is Fueling the ‘Unprecedented’ Crawfish Prices This Season

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By Emilee Speck, Fox Weather Prices over $13 a pound are causing the Louisiana staple to become unaffordable. Crawfish app co-founder Laney King said the Mississippi River saltwater intrusion and overall drought have put crawfish farmers in a bind. NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana’s ongoing exceptional drought is making the Bayou state’s staple of …

Latin Americans Are Embracing Plant-Based Foods — a Growing Opportunity for Investment

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By Roerto Guerra, Sustainable Brands Food investors and entrepreneurs would do well to mark the major focus on plant-based protein innovation happening for our neighbors to the South. Just like all disruptive industries, the ever-growing plant-based food industry has been through quite a rollercoaster ride over the last several years. But why are plant-based …