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  • New England states win $450 million to launch heat pump adoption program

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    A recent NPR article shared the following news: Massachusetts and four other New England states received a $450 million federal grant Monday to “supercharge” efforts to get residents to ditch natural gas or oil heating systems and install electric heat pumps. To date, the five states have tried on their own to get residents to make the…

  • Upcycled material plant (UBQ) may be coming to Massachusetts

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    Founded in 2012, the Israel-based climate tech startup UBQ Materials is converting household waste (including food scraps and hard-to-recycle materials) into UBQ, a sustainable substitute for fossil-based plastics. UBQ diverts waste headed for landfills and pulls out metal and glass, which can be repurposed with traditional recyclers. UBQ takes the remaining waste (food scraps, mixed…

  • Using mushrooms to clean up pollution

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    The BBC recently featured an article about Redhouse’s Biocycler program, which aims to reduce pollution and combat climate change using one of nature’s oldest: fungi. This is the emerging field called mycoremediation, and I am jazzed to learn more about it. An excerpt from the article reads: “As primary decomposers in the environment, many species…