Bezos Earth Fund announces $200M in climate grants and pledges

Bezos Earth Fund announces $200M in climate grants and pledges

The Partnership for Southern Equity, a participant in the Justice40 Accelerator, is among the youngest recipients of grants from the Bezos Earth Fund. (Partnership for Southern Equity via Twitter) The Bezos Earth Fund today announced $ 203.7 million in grants and pledges aimed at advancing climate justice, supporting climate-focused economic recovery projects, and driving innovation … Read more

Can we innovate our way out of the climate crisis? Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth

Can we innovate our way out of the climate crisis? Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth

Solar panels. (Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash) Eager investors keep coming. It is the Amazon employee who see the company’s share price rise steadily; the ex-venture capitalist looking to make big financial returns in a new hip sector; Parents or parents-to-be who panic about leaving their children with an earth ravaged by … Read more

Chinese rocket Long March 5B hurtling back to Earth may hit Saturday

Chinese rocket Long March 5B hurtling back to Earth may hit Saturday

A huge section of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket is falling back to Earth, and debris can land sometime on Saturday night or later – if the rocket doesn’t burn on the way down. According to calculations by Aerospace Corporation, a California-based nonprofit group that operates a space research and development center, the rocket … Read more

Gardening startups like Neverland want to make every day Earth Day for the home gardener – TechCrunch

Gardening startups like Neverland want to make every day Earth Day for the home gardener – TechCrunch

Vera Kutsenko and Hayley Leibson have incredible engineering pedigrees, but their latest endeavor is digging as much dirt as digging through lines of code. The two women founded Neverland, a home gardening startup that aims to be a marketplace that connects mom and pop stores to the explosion of amateur horticulturists that have sprung up … Read more