sustainability
Sunday is helping people take better care of their lawns — and the environment too
There is estimated to be 40 million acres of lawn or turf grass in the U.S., making the grass in people’s backyards one of the…
SAP’s chief sustainability officer isn’t interested in getting your company to do the right thing
SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Sophia Mendelsohn wants to incentivize companies to be green because it’s profitable, not just because it’s right.
While Geodesic.Life’s deck impresses with its aesthetic design, featuring a tasteful color palette, appealing illustrations and a concise text, it does have some crucial shortcomings.
Celadyne coats membranes with nanoparticles to make hydrogen fuel cells more efficient
The material could drastically improve the durability of existing fuel cell designs while also improving the efficiency of hydrogen production by 15%-20%.
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These founders want a more ethical company structure for startups
Called Regenerative and Circular Operations, this organizational model aims to be a practical approach to integrating sustainability at the core.
Construction tech founders should consider how their products can serve construction and real estate customers.
We’ve heard “reduce, reuse, recycle” used ad nauseam, but at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Samsung follows in Apple’s footsteps, doubling down on that, dedicating a significant amount of its…
6-point checklist for making sure your sustainability tech pitch is newsworthy
Show journalists and their readers that sustainability is no longer a side issue or just a worthy cause. It’s our duty to help Mother Earth.
Agtech leaders dish on untapped and overlooked opportunities for founders
Lab-grown meat is buzzy for a reason. The ick factor is palpable, and the benefits of scaling alternatives to factory farming are enormous. Yet, plenty of other crucial corners of…
Just in case you’re wondering what’s happening in the sectors that we’re going to talk about at Disrupt, we’ve put together a handy primer of surveys.
Do Apple’s environmental claims live up to its own highly polished hype?
Apple has made some bold claims about its environmental impact. Can the new Series 9 watch live up to them?
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Al Gore and Lila Preston question everything in their firm’s new climate report
Every year for the past seven years, Generation Investment Management, the sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, has published a sustainability trends report that aims to become as much a bible to the climate tech industry as Mary Meeker’s famous “internet trends”…
Walmart to drop plastic mailers, let customers bring their own bags to order pickup
Walmart announced this morning it will be reducing plastic across its e-commerce operations in a number of ways, including shifting from plastic mailers to recyclable paper bag mailers and allowing…
Device42 tunes IT infrastructure tooling to measure carbon emissions
Device42, a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company decided to use…
Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release
If the past few years, and even the past week, has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup…
IntegrityNext raises $109M for a platform to audit supply chains for ESG compliance
The funding is coming from a single investor, EQT Growth, and it will be used to continue building the breadth of the platform as well as the company’s go-to-market position.
Here’s when Tesla CEO Elon Musk will finally reveal his Master Plan 3
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday that he will present the long-awaited and often teased Master Plan 3 during the company’s investor day March 1. Tesla’s investor day will be…
Want to buy an EV or heat pump? New coin will help you defray the costs
Fintech startup Future offers a debit card that incentivizes climate-friendly purchasing behavior, and today it’s introducing a way to let people sell their own carbon credits.
Fashion is one of the most polluting sectors in the world, accounting for up to 10% of the world’s carbon dioxide output. Can web3 help?
Singapore-based Alterpacks turns food waste into food containers
Food waste and food packaging take up a significant portion of the world’s landfills. Alterpacks is tackling both issues with technology that turns food waste into takeout boxes and other…
Female Invest acquires sustainability-focused investment platform Gaia Investments
When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where…
Makersite lands $18M to help companies manage product supply chains
In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his 10-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product…
The Rounds raises $38M Series A for its sustainable ‘household restocking’ service
Online shopping and speedy delivery through services like Instacart and Amazon Prime are the height of modern conveniences, but for many consumers who care about sustainability and e-commerce’s impact on…
Here are the industries ripe for innovation under the Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act all but ensures that climate tech for buildings is likely to emerge as one of the sectors to watch in the coming years.
Google rolls out a new set of search tools for eco-conscious travelers
In recent months, Google has been steadily adding new tools to help consumers choose more sustainable options when using its services like Google Maps, Google Flights and hotel search. On Tuesday,…
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The biggest moonshots in YC’s S22 batch
Do bigger checks lead to bigger swings? Y Combinator’s latest participants are the second batch to land a $500,00 check as part of the accelerator’s recently refreshed standard deal. And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money…
Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest
Fermentation has a long, rich history in food production, from beer and wine to yogurt and cheese, leavened bread and coffee, miso and tempeh, sauerkraut and kimchi, to name just…
Sustainability data platform Worldfavor fuels up for ecosystem opportunities
More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor, an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting…
Google Cloud’s new sustainability platform aims to bring enterprise climate goals down to earth
If you ask most executives if they want to do the right thing by the planet, chances are they are going to say yes, even if they don’t know exactly…
Austin-based True Wealth Ventures raises second fund to back women-led startups
Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp of Austin, Texas-based True Wealth Ventures defy many trends in the venture capital world. The investors, who raised $19.1 million for their first fund in…
