Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases
This is great:
Last year, Stripe announced our Negative Emissions Commitment, pledging at least $1M per year to pay, at any price, for the direct removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and its sequestration in secure long-term storage. We’ve since built a small team within Stripe to focus on creating a market for carbon removal by being an early customer for promising negative emissions technologies. Today, after a rigorous search and review by a panel of independent scientific experts, we’re excited to announce our first purchases. Our request for projects garnered a wide range of negative emissions technologies which came in two broad categories.
The funded projects are: Climeworks, Charm Industrial, Project Vesta, and CarbonCure.(tags: climate climate-change emissions carbon-sequestration stripe negative-emissions tech)
COVID-19 data researcher removed as Florida moves to re-open state
‘Rebekah Jones said that her removal was “not voluntary,” that she was ordered to censor some data, but refused to “manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen.”’
(tags: florida us-politics covid-19 data-science data dataviz)
iFixit launches massive repair database for ventilators and other medical devices – The Verge
Go iFixit.
“To be very clear: iFixit does not make money on this project. We are providing hosting and curation free of charge, and free of advertising, to the medical community,” Wiens says. “We welcome manufacturers to join us and contribute toward an up-to-date central repository for the biomedical community. We also welcome biomeds around the world to join iFixit’s repair community. No technician is an island, and we hope to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and troubleshooting.”