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

Fast Company Tech

But we need the funds to operate our roads that EVs need to use as well, said Carra Sahler, director of the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. We now find ourselves right now in a position where we want to address fuel use and drive down reliance on gases and internal combustion engines.

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Greenpeace Nordic Fights to Win the World a Better Future

Saleforce Nonprofit

nuclear tests off the coast of Alaska. Backed by its committed community of volunteers, and with its most critical processes supported by technology, Greenpeace Nordic won’t give up its fight to raise awareness and change practices and laws until the climate emergency is averted and a greener future is assured.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Right now he gets his green fix by tending to an aquarium and houseplants.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

This decade also saw the Black Power Movement, American Indian Movement, a further push for women’s rights , rights of farmworkers, and the Green Power Movement. Additionally, this decade saw several environmental disasters at the hands of companies including a massive oil spill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

And then another program is Reclaim the Future, which is one our newest projects, that is addressing green-color jobs and building opportunities for low-income people, formerly convicted people, and communities of color in this new green economy. Louis, Missouri, and I was working for an environmental law clinic as a consultant.

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