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Print The 2021 Kure It Cancer Research Foundation’s fourth annual “Rivals Cup” teed off at Pelican Hill Resort in June, welcoming a field of 144 golfers raising serious money to fight serious cancer. An estimated $160,000 was raised to fund research for lesser known and lesser funded cancer research projects. Lakers legends James Worthy and Byron Scott headlined the golf event front and center as checks were presented to both UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and USC Norris. La...

by Adele Peters (Fast Company)  Seaweed farming could be a potent weapon in the fight against climate change. But can it scale?  — In a series of floating seaweed farms off the coast of Bali, Indonesia, a catamaran travels back and forth through lines of dangling red algae. Custom technology on board automatically harvests and replants the seaweed, which quickly grows several feet long. The system is designed to help the tiny seaweed industry scale up—and to capture some of seaweed’s po...

Image: RWDC/Cove RWDC agrees to supply 350 million pounds of its proprietary PHA over five years to the Los Angeles–based startup, which is developing the first water bottle made entirely of biodegradable material. The latest announcement from Cove, a Los Angeles–based company founded in 2017 that plans to introduce the first water bottle made entirely of biodegradable material, said that it has entered into an exclusive partnership deal with RWDC Industries. RWDC ...

Will Every New Passenger Vehicle In The US Be An EV By 2035? Apr 16, 2021 51m ago ++ Its certainly a very lofty goal. This article comes to us courtesy of EVANNEX, which makes and sells aftermarket Tesla accessories. The opinions expressed therein are not necessarily our own at InsideEVs, nor have we been paid by EVANNEX to publish these articles. We find the companys perspective as an aftermarket supplier of Tesla accessories interesting and are ...

More States Jump On The EV Bandwagon - Can The US Infrastructure Support The Influx Of EV Vehicles? Views : 992 | Category: Misc News | Source: | SOURCE: insideevs.com SHARE THIS ARTICLE The U.S. lags behind China and Europe in the transition from internal combustion engine to battery-powered cars. There are some bright spots in the U.S. though. California was the first state announcing plans to ban new fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2035. Then, Massachusetts followed. A ...

Tuesday, 9 March, 2021 - 07:15 Greens are grown at Bowery Farming, a vertical farm in Kearny, New Jersey. Photo: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images London- Asharq Al-Awsat A housing project designed by US architect Nona Yehia promises to provide over 460,000 kg of produce a year, along with housing and jobs. Some vertical farms grow greens in old warehouses, former steel mills, or other sites set apart from the heart of cities. But a...

This Brilliant Low-Income Housing in Colombia is Made From Coffee Waste Feb 18, 2021 In a country with both housing shortages and world-leading coffee production, a small construction company has, quite brilliantly, found a way to leverage one in order to fix the other. Woodpecker WPC Coffee husks, a papery material surrounding the prized beans, are being turned into resilient, light, and versatile building materials that can make the panels of a house for as little as $4,500. The Bogota-based ...