SaLisa Berrien, founder and CEO at COI Energy, a digital platform that detects and eliminates energy … [+] waste in buildings in real-time—as well as having a portion of every kilowatt saved for...
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Japan’s Newest Billionaire Masters The Science Of Turning Waste Into Wealth
Fumio Kaneko, cofounder and president of waste management company Daiei Kankyo. Last December, the … [+] company raised $315 million from an IPO in Tokyo Stock Exchange. COURTESY OF DAIEI KANKYO...
To Succeed, Every Manufacturer Must Become A Lean, Mean Strategic Machine
Fast forward to today and, for the majority of manufacturing companies, the need to maximize … [+] efficiency, especially in light of ongoing economic and geopolitical uncertainty, remains a top...
Part I – Administrative Waste And Inefficiencies
This is the first in a four-part series on the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value’s newly released report, “A Road Map for Action.” Each piece will detail one of the four priorit...
Zero Waste Daniel Fashions Bomber Jackets Made With Designer Fabric Scraps
Zero Waste Daniel’s bomber jacket made from scraps discarded by designers and saved for over 10 … [+] years. Courtesy of Zero Waste Daniel Zero Waste Daniel never saw a fabric scrap he did...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Bitcoin is a ‘hyped-up fraud’ and cryptocurrencies are a ‘waste of time’—but blockchain is a ‘deployable’ technology
Despite the ongoing Crypto Winter, Bitcoin supporters are certain that the future for the fledgling industry is bright. And so far this year, they’ve had reason to celebrate. Bitcoin’s price has jumpe...
Fourteen Years After Hudson Miracle, Hero Pilot Sullenberger Says Don’t Waste A Crisis
US Airway Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger visits LGA on his first day back on the job in … [+] October 2009 . (Photo by Spencer Platt) Getty Images Fourteen years after he lande...
Recycling And Reuse? Ways To Win The War On Waste
Big F&B companies are taking steps to advance waste solutions, even as current product packaging … [+] continues to accumulate. getty No one can question that we have a global problem with f...
A 5.4M Earthquake Shakes Up Oil And Gas Disposal Wells And Nuclear Waste Plans In The Permian Basin Of West Texas.
A road sign report of an earthquake in February 2016 in Oklahoma. Getty Images In the island of West Java, part of Indonesia, a moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.6 occurred on November 21, 2022. Beca...
Zero Waste Daniel Partners With ThredUP To Give New Life To Unsaleable Clothing
Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, her character in “The Nanny” was the muse for the collection. Courtesy of ThredUP Where others see garbage, Daniel Silverstein sees possibilities. That’s how th...
Bitcoin Is Too Important, Robert Kiyosaki Says, Don’t Waste Your Time on Skeptics
Yuri Molchan Popular non-fiction writer, author of books on finance and self-education believes Bitcoin is too important to shill it to skeptics Robert Kiyosaki, prominent real-estate investor and aut...
This Bitcoin Mine Is Getting Rid Of Pennsylvania’s Leftover Coal Waste
Who’s going to put leftover coal to use powering the world’s most incredible financial network? Bitcoin, that’s who. Another day, another story about bitcoin mining actually protecting the environment...
Bitcoin miners receive access to waste gas from Argentinian state-owned energy firm
Bitcoin (BTC) miners have long been subjected to criticism over the energy they utilize to carry out their mining activities, leading some countries to try and offset as much damage to the environment...
How A Seafood Waste Stream Is Being Transformed Into A Multi-Use Biopolymer
Crustaceans (Crabs, Lobster, Shrimp) are a delicious category of seafood, but their shells can yield … [+] a biopolymer with myriad potential uses getty Overall, our modern food system does a go...
Nuclear Waste And The Path Forward
FILE – People leave the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour on July 14, 2018, … [+] near Mercury, Nev. Nevada is asking the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ...
Don’t Waste Uniglo (GLO) Presale And You Could End Up Doing Millions Like Solana (SOL) And Cardano (ADA) Early Investors
Investors must act quickly. Early adopters back projects before others, and this early faith translates into astounding gains. A new Ethereum-based social currency Uniglo (GLO), is currently in its pr...
How Bitcoin Mining Can Mitigate Renewable Energy Waste
Bitcoin miners, being the unique power consumers they are, can be a possible solution to the problem of renewable energy waste. Bitcoin Mining Can Be Utilized To Use Up Excess Power Produced By Renewa...
The Merge gets rid of ‘proof of waste’
Ben Edgington’s career has run the gamut from academia through supercomputing, and now working on Ethereum. The Merge is just the latest stop on his journey. After joining ConsenSys in 2017, Ed...
Construction Has A $3 Trillion Waste Problem. Can Drones — And Digital Twin Tech — Solve It?
Everyone who has done a kitchen renovation knows that construction is hard. It’s slow, progress is painful, getting all the trades to come at the right time is like getting the stars to align, and the...
New Government Contracts Bill Fleeces Taxpayers Bi-Partisan Style
A little noticed Senate bill entitled the “AGILE Procurement Act” (S. 4623) is a classic illustration of large business interests hijacking government contracting policy in the name of promoting small...
South Korean professor invents toilet that turns waste into energy and pays out crypto
The creation of so-called ‘meme coins’ and, for lack of a better expression in the blockchain industry, ‘shitcoins‘, which refer to worthless coins or tokens that have little to no utility outside spe...
Cardano IOG Introduces New Protocol to Reduce Energy Waste of Bitcoin and Other Proof-of-Work (PoW) Networks
– Advertisement – The IOG has introduced a new protocol to reduce PoW’s energy waste. Cardano’s research and development company, Input Output Global (IOG), has introduced a new consensu...
As Waste Management Looks to Break Out, Don’t Toss Away a Trading Opportunity
The company released its second quarter financial results on the morning of Wednesday, July 27th. The stock ran 2.8% that day. The stock is up 9.1% since the closing bell the night prior. Some might s...
Less Waste And Better Care
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Medicare bill as Vice President Humphrey and Harry S. Truman … [+] both check the time. Bettmann Archive This Saturday, July 30, marked 57 years since Presi...
Out Of Date? Marks & Spencer Rethinks Best Before Dates To Help Tackle Food Waste Crisis
In changes that will be seen in-store from this week, best-before messaging will be removed from the … [+] labelling of over 300 fruit and vegetable products which amounts to 85% of Marks & ...
Fusion Power Funding, A New EV Battery Plant In Kansas And How Food Waste Costs Taxpayers
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Associated Press In the first four months...
Food Waste Costs U.S. Taxpayers Billions Of Dollars A Year
Every year, $400 billion ends up in dumpsters, and because it cuts into corporate profits, companies can treat it as tax deductible. When Kroger, America’s largest grocery chain, promised four years a...
Peter Schiff Blasts MicroStrategy’s Latest Bitcoin Purchase, Says BTC More Downside Would Make Saylor Waste More Money
– Advertisement – Peter Schiff Blasts MicroStrategy’s Latest Bitcoin Purchase, Says BTC Will Soon Resume Price Decline. The American stock broker has slammed MicroStrategy’s recent Bitco...
The Future Faces an Urgent Need to Up the Game on Waste Treatment.
The EU has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, with at least 27% of total energy coming from renewables. The European Union is also turning away f...
Central bank digital currencies could be a costly waste of time
They are seen by central banks and traditional financial organisations as the panacea for the ills within the fiat monetary system, but central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will need to be extremel...
Alterra Energy Looks To Blow The Lid Off Plastics Recycling
Alterra has developed proprietary technology to economically recycle mixed plastics. Image courtesy Alterra Energy The world has a plastic waste problem. That’s probably not news to you. Standard recy...