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Cruz Foam’s chitin-based packaging brings in $18M as industries scramble to go green

TechCrunch

The company, whose founder, John Felts, I met in Alaska during the Accelerator at Sea , has been scrappily humming along prototyping various ways to turn chitin and a few other natural ingredients into a material that can replace expanded polystyrene foam (EPS; like Styrofoam) and other common plastic packaging.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

The Green Climate Fund. Alaska Conservation Foundation. The Green Climate Fun. The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways.

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Greenpeace Nordic Fights to Win the World a Better Future

Saleforce Nonprofit

nuclear tests off the coast of Alaska. For more than two decades, this Nonprofit Trailblazer has investigated, exposed and used non-violent creative confrontation to shine a light on environmental problems and abuse, and held governments and corporations accountable for their actions.

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States seek alternatives to pay for infrastructure since more EVs means less gas tax revenue

Fast Company Tech

States with aggressive climate goals like Oregon face a conundrum: EVs can help reduce emissions in the transportation sector, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, but they also mean less gas tax revenue in government coffers. Energy Information Administration.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

She is a poet, an environmental activist, and a nonprofit management expert with a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. They came from Alaska, from ad agencies on Madison Avenue, from everywhere. To be sure, Nancy Jo Craig is an accomplished woman. ” Image: bloggernews.net.

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Webinar: Monthly Donors, Social Media, and Cross-Channel Integration: Critical Tactics to Boost Your Fundraising in 2013

Care2

Her background is in community organizing, strategic campaigning and legislative campaigns, having previously worked with Green Corps, the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and the American Community Gardening Association. Eric Rardin -- Senior Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2. Eric is senior director of nonprofit services at Care2.com

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Cruz Foam’s shell-based Styrofoam alternative brings in $3.4M seed with DiCaprio and Kutcher

TechCrunch

Plastic foam like Styrofoam is a ubiquitous, harmful, and nearly immortal single-use material that is long overdue for a good, green replacement — and Cruz Foam is here to supply it. They soon found out everyone is quietly on the lookout for something better, and existing green alternatives haven’t panned out.