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Although the food industry has touted carbon credits as a powerful tool to incentivize farmers to lessen their climate impact, businesses tend to rely on intermediaries such as Indigo Ag to handle the logistics. Organic Valley is taking the unique step of essentially operating its own carbon credit program, cutting out the middleman entirely.

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To reduce carbon emissions and industrial practices on farmland, an increasing number of producers are finding ways to get the most out of their operations using sustainable methods that also carry revenue opportunities.

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Traditional wind turbines make clean energy but come with several disadvantages. If you have ever stood near one, you understand the issues of noise pollution, danger to wildlife, and their incredibly large size. To address these issues, clean tech startup Aeromine Technologies has developed what they call a motionless wind turbine to quietly harness wind energy.

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As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), entitled, “Inflation Reduction Act Funding for Advanced Biofuels,” for up to $9.4 million for the development of advanced biofuels. This investment through a new agreement between EPA and DOE is funded by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and will support high-impact biofuel technology projects to improve the performance and reduce the cost of biofuel production technologies, scale up production systems in partnership with industry, and accelerate the nation’s bioeconomy. Advancing renewable and sustainable energy sources is essential to achieving the Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious clean energy and climate goals.

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In terms of your daily environmental footprint, the vehicle you drive is a contributor. A typical passenger vehicle emits roughly , with the average passenger vehicle emitting about 0.9 pounds of COâ‚‚ per mile.

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At United, our purpose of “Connecting People. Uniting the World.” extends beyond just getting you to your next destination. Our commitment to mitigating our environmental impact means understanding our climate impact, holding ourselves accountable, and working to chart a more sustainable course for the future of air travel.

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One day in late November, I cradled a red Samsung flip phone in my hands as if it was a ruby gemstone. To me, it was just as precious. Deep inside an overstuffed dresser in my childhood bedroom, I had spotted the glint of my first-ever cellphone, a Samsung SGH-A707 purchased in the waning days of the George W. Bush presidency. The device, no bigger than a credit card, had long ago succumbed to the spider web of cracks on its screen. For a moment, I was brought back to life before the smartphone, clicking the phone’s plastic keys for the first time in more than a decade.

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Butanol, a 4-carbon alcohol (butyl alcohol), is produced from the same feedstocks as ethanol, including corn grain and other biomass. The term biobutanol refers to butanol made from biomass feedstocks. The benefits of biobutanol, when compared with ethanol, are that biobutanol is immiscible in water, has a higher energy content, and has a lower Reid vapor pressure. Under the Renewable Fuel Standard, corn grain butanol meets the renewable fuel 20% greenhouse gas emission reduction threshold.

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A multidisciplinary approach has enabled researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to quantitatively define the relative positioning and arrangement of the polymers in Populus wood and to create a computer model that details the findings.

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