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Cooling homes without warming the planet

Successful Green

The startup Transaera is using a class of materials called metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, to create air conditioners that could have five times less impact on the climate when compared to traditional ACs.... The post Cooling homes without warming the planet appeared first on successful GREEN.

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Creating Carbon Credits

JANZEN AG

At a farmer meeting I attended recently, the hot topic was carbon reduction contracts. There was a lot of curiosity, confusion and skepticism among these farmers. Many questioned how the various offerings on the market work, whether these tools make financial sense, and whether farmers are better off holding out for more lucrative, future possibilities.

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Indigenous Lands Contain Nearly Half of the Amazon’s Intact Forest

Yale E360

A comprehensive United Nations study says that 45 percent of the intact forests in the Amazon are in Indigenous territories, comprising an area that sequesters more carbon than all the tropical forests in either Indonesia or the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more on E360 ?.

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