Tag: Sustainability
Alternative Protein Market Faces Infrastructure Challenges
Producers find the lack of production facilities outfitted for meat replacement products prevents an efficient path from product design to market sales. As demand for plant-based protein products continues to increase, the lack of infrastructure to support that growth has … Read more
Using Pipeline Infrastructure for Hydrogen Hubs, Carbon Grid
While many clean energy solutions focus on new technology and infrastructure, one energy leader is re-imaging its existing pipelines to distribute power capacity using a range of renewable energy and clean fuels. TransCanada Energy, or TC Energy, a leader in … Read more
What to Know About Shell Energy and The Global Energy Transition
Many leading companies in the traditional energy sector are making bold choices to position their companies as leaders in the new energy economy. Clean Innovations in the New Energy Economy Shell Energy is one of those global companies that has … Read more
When Water Infrastructure Fails: PFAS and Eastern NC’s Drinking Water
Over the last decades, access to clean and safe drinking water in the U.S. has become more prevalent in the news cycle. Stories of Flint, Michigan, Inez, Kentucky, and the Navajo Nation have increased the public’s awareness to a startling … Read more
Spearheading Conservation: ENGOs Driving Change, Bonefish & Tarpon Trust
Brush Cay mangrove forest before Hurricane Dorian As society transitions into the next decade, it has become increasingly clear that the Climate Crisis is an impossible battle to fight alone. The environmental movement is growing globally as governments, companies, and … Read more
By the Brook Tempeh
From bean to block, Taylor Westbrook is combining fermentation with artistry to create a unique product representative of a more sustainable food-future. Tempeh is a fairly foreign product to American consumers. I came to know it as a lot of … Read more
Designing Sustainable Cities: Songdo
The United Nations projects that by 2050 over two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. That equates to about 2.5 billion additional people moving to cities around the world (United Nations). When constructed correctly, cities have the … Read more
Earth Day is Every Day
One of the most frustrating parts of environmentalism, in my opinion, is the tendency for portrayal as a movement for a specific subset of people. In hearing the term “environmentalist,” it’s hard not to think of “tree huggers” or vegan … Read more
Sustainability through Solar Powered Sheep
Can the sum of two things be worth more than the individual parts? In the case of solar farms and sheep, the answer is yes. The Cornelius based company, Sun Raised Foods is doing just that, using the symbiotic relationship … Read more
Springclean: Repurposing Your Textile Waste
Over the past decade, the textile industry has received a lot of criticism for promulgating “fast fashion” – a term that neatly encapsulates the horrors of a multi trillion-dollar industry built on extractive and exploitative practices. With only 2% of … Read more