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From lab to market, bio-based products are gaining momentum
Propelled by government investment and shareholder demand, manufacturers are pushing to get bio-based products into the marketplace. Made from plants, fungi, and microbes, these new materials aim to replace those that contain toxins and are difficult to recycle or reuse.
Read MoreHow Alaska’s coastal communities are racing against erosion
“There’s a lot of history being washed away.”
Read MoreEPA issues rare veto, halting Alaska’s Pebble mine
Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
Read MoreHow Pittsburgh found a secret climate weapon in ‘the thrilling world of municipal budgeting’
Even cash-strapped cities have money for climate action. They just need to spend it better.
Read MoreOil refineries are polluting US waterways. Too often, it’s legal.
Facilities release a “witches’ brew” of toxins in their wastewater.
Read MoreTired of being told to ‘adapt,’ an Indigenous community wrote its own climate action plan
On the Flathead Reservation, a “living document” speaks to thousands of years of history while facing new challenges.
Read MoreAnn Arbor’s big decarbonization bet
The Michigan city has ambitions to go carbon neutral, and they begin in one of its most frontline neighborhoods.
Read MoreCan cities eliminate heat-related deaths in a warming world? Phoenix is trying.
Phoenix hopes a new Office of Heat Response can move fast enough to counter the impacts of deadly heat.
Read MoreA California town’s wastewater is helping it battle drought
Healdsburg recycles 350 million gallons of effluent annually and gives it away for free.
Read MoreHow to build a better bike-share program
When corporate owners ditched New Orleans’s bike share, the community stepped up to rebuild it with a focus on equity.
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