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ECB considers Bitcoin ban to curb environmental damage
Fabio Panetta, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, said that the bank was “seriously considering” a Bitcoin ban (including other cryptocurrencies) due to the environmental damage ...
Legislators propose federal reports of gas emissions for crypto miners
Three U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that would ask the Environmental Protection Agency to study crypto mining activity and require that miners that use more than 5 megawatts of power submit informa...
The World Wants Israel’s Energy And Environmental Innovations
Israeli Climate Envoy Gideon Behar meets with President Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla of Andalucia at … [+] COP27. Ken Silverstein About 10 minutes into my interview with Israel’s special envoy for...
“A Stroke Of Serendipity” – A Technology Developed For The Bioethanol Industry Has Economic And Environmental Benefits For Beef And Dairy Production
A No-till corn field getty Most of the corn grown in the US has been improved using biotechnology to provide protection from insect damage and/or herbicide tolerance. The insect resistance trait has t...
Municipal Bonds And ESG: All Hat, No Cattle
Houston skyline (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images) Getty Images Houston, we have an ESG problem. Or do we? From an ESG-risk perspective, between the weather and petroleum-dependent economy, the Ci...
Rosie Labs Teams Up with Boarding Noah’s Ark for Playful NFT Project to Address and Support Serious Environmental Events
Pilot Program to Preview at NFT London Trade Show with a Preview of Fanciful Artwork Encouraging Founding Noah’s Ark Passengers to “Board Early” NEW YORK & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rosie Labs, the N...
Jordan Peele’s Nope Participated In NBCUniversal’s Sustainable Production Program
Director Jordan Peele attends the World Premiere Of Universal Pictures “Nope” at the Chinese theatre … [+] in Hollywood, California, July 18, 2022. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Ph...
Big Eyes, Pancakeswap, and Solana: Environmental Friendly Cryptocurrencies
Big Eyes Coin(BIG), PancakeSwap (CAKE), and Solana (SOL) could be termed environmentally friendly projects in the cryptocurrency market. The concerns for a safer environment around the crypto market c...
Environmental groups want Bitcoin to follow Ethereum’s example in moving to proof-of-stake
Transitioning the Ethereum blockchain from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake has reduced its energy usage by more than 99% — and many climate activists have called for Bitcoin to follow suit. In a Thur...
Environmental Groups to Spend Another $1M on Ads for Bitcoin Code Change After the Merge
Earlier on Thursday, the Ethereum blockchain – which underpins the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market value– changed its consensus mechanism from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-sta...
Polygon Maps out $20M Fund for Environmental Sustainability
In a Wednesday blog post, the team behind Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon announced that it has dedicated $20 million to sponsor projects aiming to use blockchain to solve environmental issu...
Climate activists pressure Bitcoin to follow Ethereum’s environmental shift
Environmental advocacy organizations are putting further pressure on Bitcoin (BTC)to improve its environmental performance to the same level as Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second most popular cryptocu...
Ethereum Becomes Environmental Friendly, Reducing Worldwide Electricity Consumption by 0.2% As Merge Goes Live
– Advertisement – Ethereum successfully executes an impressive feat of engineering. Ethereum has successfully transitioned from the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to proof-of-stak...
How the Ethereum Merge Ends the Environmental Debate About NFTs
In brief NFTs have been widely criticized for their environmental impact, given the energy requirements of top NFT network Ethereum. Ethereum’s upcoming merge is expected to cut the network’s energy u...
White House Calls for Crypto Mining Standards to Minimize Environmental Impact
“While the EPA and the Department of the Interior have proposed new rules to reduce methane for oil and natural gas operations, crypto-asset mining operations that capture vented methane to produce el...
Rich millennials say this is the best long-term investment
Millionaire millennials haven’t been deterred by this year’s collapse in cryptocurrencies and “nonfungible tokens” and still see them as the No. 1 way to build long-term wealth, a new study finds. Tho...