🍃The Sustainability Top 10: topless, extra-skin and trashy

Welcome back 🖐,

This week, I wanted to start with an ask: please share this week’s newsletter with 2 people you think will benefit from it. Sharing is caring (for the sustainability community) 😉.

What can I say, all the recent days’ climate-related news speak for themselves 😳, so this week the emphasis is on innovations, some very cool, that are coming to market. We have a lidless to-go cup (the design will blow your mind), skins that you put on buildings (like you do on your phone), a technology that can retrofit concrete plants to cut emissions, sea solar-panel farms, trash as jet fuel, universal sustainability labels, and Chipotle scaling composting. 

I also wanted to share with you a very informative chart about what different temperature thresholds will trigger and some stats around the technosphere and how is now greater than the biosphere. Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

2. (Reuters) Your old building is killing your hopes of hitting emission targets? This startup is creating second skins for buildings that can save 70-80% of energy costs. See the video of how it works. read here

3. (G&A) What if all products had sustainability facts just like food has nutritional facts? These two startups are working on making that a reality. read here

5. (GreenBiz) Chipotle is scaling its composting efforts and trying to figure out how to incentivize customers to dispose of their trash correctly. read here

6. (WSJ) Fueling jets with trash? Yep, and investment is flowing into these sustainable aviation fuels. read here

7. (Bloomberg) Solar farms out at sea (you read that right, not wind farms) may be the next hot thing in clean energy. read here

8. (ESG Today) ESG rises to #2 top priority for procurement execs according to recent survey. read here

10. (GreenBiz) Netflix and Disney are hunting for companies developing emissions-free technologies for the entertainment industry. read here

+. (Reuters) If you have been to Europe, you would know that this law should help as pristine natural habitats are generally hard to come by…: the European Parliament voted to pass a fiercely contested law to restore degraded natural ecosystems. read here

+. (GreenBiz) The technosphere is a concept measuring material output of human-made materials on planet Earth. The technosphere now outweighs the biosphere (i.e. all life on earth). Before making your next purchase remember that: "our relentless pursuit of ever-increasing material output is overwhelming our planet". read here

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos,

Julio