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This new recipe for clean cement works. The question is whether anyone can scale it. Cody Finke, founder and CEO of Brimstone, explains how the IMPACT Act could help make that happen.

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We can tackle our biggest environmental problems

"It's not that I don't think these problems are big or that they're urgent, but I can start to see that these problems are solvable."

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Doomerism won’t fix the planet, but we can

“You can find examples of really big environmental problems that we've already solved.” Climate change is solvable, argues Hannah Ritchie.

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