The Daily Sprout
Alaskan Village Suing Big Businesses Over Global Warming: The residents of the Inupiat village of Kivalina are suing large oil companies, electric utilities, and a coal company alleging the companies’ actions have destroyed the village, located on a precarious barrier reef - ClaimeIntel.
Contraction & Convergence to Limit Per Capita Emissions: While both the U.S. and China refuse to budge on emissions controls, Britain has put forward a new idea to limit emissions per capita, allowing rich nations to slowly reduce while developing states can continue to grow to a point - International Herald Tribune.
Battery Maker Axion Gets Another $4M: Axion, the maker of a next-gen lead acid battery, raised $4 million in closing the second tranche of funding from The Quercus Trust - The Earth Times.
Self-Digesting Corn Stover: Researchers at Michigan State are working on splicing in enzyme-producing genes into corn so that the non-food bits will break themselves down, making cellulosic ethanol production easier - Gas 2.0.
Bio-Polymers Are Becoming Big Business: Cargill and Dupont are just two industrial giants working on making chemicals and plastics from renewable sources, like corn - New York Times.
