Jeff Kart
Forbes
Bay City, MI, United States
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Michigan Startup’s Gemini Battery Powers Tesla For 752 Miles On A Single Charge
The experimental battery, retrofitted into a Tesla Model S, drove across the Great Lakes state at an average speed of 55 mph. → Read More
Michigan, Tops For Robots At Last Count, Hopes To Keep Rising With PlanetM
Maybe "Michigan: the Robot State" will catch on? → Read More
9 Creatures That Conveniently Grow Back Body Parts
Break a leg, they say in show business. We can handle that. But humans, despite being the rulers of Earth, can't regenerate lost appendages. It seems that the more advanced the species, the less able they are to regrow legs, claws, or heads. → Read More
Robin The Robot Comforts Kids In Hospitals, Can Help With Covid-19
Robin is due to comfort kids at a U. S. dental clinic starting in July. → Read More
Youth Activist Uses Quarantine To Start Nonprofit That Translates Climate Change Information From English To Other Languages
Her inspiration for Climate Cardinals came from years spent translating articles about global warming from English into Farsi for her relatives in Iran, where the news media barely covers climate change. → Read More
Paper From Plant Waste Can Replace Plastics: Varden Startup Receives $2M Boost
A startup from Australia has plans for global expansion, replacing plastic in items like coffee pods with an eco-friendly material made from plant waste. → Read More
Ocean Groups Plan Wave Of Environment Action ... After Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary
They're planning something epic for later this year: launching a first-of-its-kind ocean conservation action platform called “Only One.” → Read More
Earth Day 2020 Will Survive The Coronavirus By Moving Online
Organizers of the event have turned this year’s 50th anniversary of the green holiday into the first-ever Digital Earth Day. → Read More
Earth Day Turns 50 In 2020 And Organizers Are Building The Largest Environmental Mobilization In History
What do you get a globe that needs all the help it can get? → Read More
The Ocean Cleanup Is Capturing Plastic, Prepping A Larger Trash-Collecting System
While the group is celebrating, they say they’re also ready for more setbacks, or as Slat likes to call them: “unscheduled learning opportunities.” → Read More
The iThrone Evaporative Toilet Answers The Call For Healthy Cities
It’s described as a portable, space-saving, waste-shrinking toilet that eliminates up to 95% of daily waste on-site. → Read More
25 Young Heroes Who Are Tackling Environmental And Social Issues
Some, ages 8 to 18, are into trying to raise awareness and funds for environmental issues like sustainability, endangered species, climate change and pollution. → Read More
The Ocean Cleanup Has Good News, Hopes To Resume Plastic Cleanup Soon
The Ocean Cleanup isn't giving up. Its inventor thinks an "overtopping" issue may be the last one to solve, and an upcoming modification brings the effort closer than ever to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. → Read More
Can That Be Recycled? New Instagram Hotline Can Help
A bottled water company and national recycling nonprofit are promoting an Instagram hotline to help people figure out what can and can't be recycled, including plastic bottles. Use hashtag #NotTrash and tag @PolandSpringWtr. → Read More
Ultraviolet Coating Can Zap Away Bacteria, Even Superbugs
Ultraviolet light can destroy the DNA of germs, but lamps cast shadows. A surface coating under development at Purdue would zap away bacteria in minutes and not allow germs to literally hide in the shadows. → Read More
Startup Turns Ocean Plastic Into A Travel Bag
You can carry on a travel bag made of recycled ocean plastic and sustainable cork. When someone says "that's a nice bag," you can strike up a conversation. → Read More
Ocean Divers Set Guinness World Record For Largest Underwater Cleanup
A Florida beach was the site of a new world record for cleaning up trash from the ocean floor. It's not the first record that's been set there. → Read More
Odyssey Innovation Makes Kayaks Out Of Sea Plastic, Uses Kayaks To Collect More
Odyssey Innovation is a guy named Rob Thompson, who started out collecting plastic while kayaking. Now his startup turns discarded plastic and old fish nets into kayaks made from recycled marine plastic. → Read More
US Government Partnerships Are The Gold Standard For Growing Green Startups: Study
Partnering with U.S. government agencies may be the best way to secure funding for green tech startups, research shows. Increases of 73% in patenting activity and 155% in financing were found in the study by three universities from the U.S., Germany and the U.K. → Read More
CarbonCure Technology Says Goodbye To Carbon Dioxide, Hello To Greener Concrete
The concrete industry emits a lot of carbon dioxide. A Canadian startup has found a solid way to get rid of the problem, by injecting CO2 into cement during the mixing process. The cured concrete ends up as carbon-free. → Read More