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Sumit Kadakia: New Haven start-up turns waste into food

Fellow Sumit Kadakia and his wife have launched a New Haven-based start-up that is turning food production refuse into nutritious, tasty, and environmentally sustainable food.
October 17, 2016
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50 Most Solar-Saturated Zip Codes in California

Fellow Joe Rand says research from the Berkeley Lab, Elevate Energy and the Center for Sustainable Energy shows that buyers think solar is a desirable feature, but that they, realtors and appraisers need more help to find and value solar homes.
October 17, 2016
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Hall mentioned in Boston Globe article on Appalachia's future beyond coal

Out-of-work Kentuckians are increasingly turning to farming “out of necessity,” said Martin Richards, who runs Kentucky’s Community Farm Alliance. His group works with eight farmers’ markets in eastern Kentucky, including one Howard helped found with another seventh-generation Kentuckian, Nathan Hall; Richards says twice as many farmers participate as did five years ago.
September 26, 2016
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Marissa McMahan: Invasive green crabs are scuttling from dilemma to delicacy

Fellow Marissa McMahan is working with Maine locals and Venetian fishermen to turn the invasive green crab into a gourmet dish known in Italy as moleche.
September 5, 2016
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Bruso named 2016 Aspen Institute Lab First Mover Fellow

The Aspen Institute First Movers Fellowship Program today announced its 2016 class of Fellows who are working within companies to help solve the world's most challenging social and environmental problems. First Movers is the leading global network of intrapreneurs and equips Fellows with the skills and confidence to drive innovations inside companies that add value to the organization and positively impact the lives of consumers, employees and communities.
September 5, 2016
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Selwitz quoted on expanding the bioenergy workforce

Chris Madsen needed a career change. After owning and operating his own construction business for over 20 years, a hand injury propelled him to look in other directions. At 45, the father of two enrolled in the plant operations program at Walla Walla Community College. “An area that is focused on heavily [in the program] is the chemical process we use in order to utilize bioenergy,” says Madsen, who also completed a summer internship at biorefinery developer ZeaChem, an industry partner of the Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest project.
June 30, 2016
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Koehler on green issues in investors' minds

A rise in investor demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG)-conscious exposure within funds meant those that were inclusive of sustainable investment options could hold a greater competitive advantage in an evolving marketplace, according to UBS Asset Management. UBS’s Global Sustainable Equity strategy captured the investment opportunity of ESG-conscious companies that offered access to global equity markets, including large, mid and small-cap companies in one strategy.
June 2, 2016
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Hsu named member of new WWF initiative on sustainable food production

Watching the world food system race towards a moment when it can’t possibly produce enough food to nourish the world’s population, the World Wildlife Fund launched last week a Markets Institute to Advance Sustainable Food Production with the help of some big food companies. Mars, Kellogg, Unilever and others are involved. Their mission is to quickly scale market-based solutions across the industry to change how food is grown, procured, shipped and distribute so that natural resource will be sustained to grow food for future generations, too. ...
June 1, 2016
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Garren quoted on tracking technologies for fish

Driven by concerns about food safety and illegal fishing, major seafood companies are working to improve how they trace fish through the industry’s complex supply chains. But in many parts of the world, fish are caught by artisanal fishers, not by massive trawlers. For these small-scale fishers, existing tracing technologies are often too cumbersome, complex, or expensive to use. This means they are often ineligible for sustainability certification (and the economic benefits that entails), because they can’t prove where, when, and how their fish were taken.
May 6, 2016
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O'Rourke joins Amazon.com's sustainability team

Amazon has a reputation for forward thinking, but when it comes to sustainability, the company has often fallen behind the times. For years, it has weathered criticism over its worker treatment, recycling and other sustainability metrics. Recently, however, the online retailer has signaled that a change may be on the way. Dara O’Rourke, a leading expert on global supply chains, has joined the company’s sustainability team.
February 8, 2016