Chop Down Forests To Save The Planet? Maybe Not As Crazy As It Sounds | Fukushima: Sushi lovers grab last bites as seafood ban hits Japan | Tech billionaires on the mat: What jujitsu reveals about Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Silicon Valley

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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Chop Down Forests To Save The Planet? Maybe Not As Crazy As It Sounds    A year ago, Merritt Jenkins moved from Boston to Twain Harte, California, a speck of 2,500 souls in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. On his morning commute, he stops at Alicia’s Sugar Shack for a breakfast sandwich (scrambled eggs on rye with avocado), then heads to a 10-acre patch of woods in the Stanislaus National Forest. There, his startup, Kodama Systems, is testing and perfecting its 25-foot-long, 17-ton semiautonomous timber harvesting machine. Loggers use such machines, known as skidders, to grab tons of cut trees and debris and drag them out of the woods. Kodama’s version is designed to do the job even at night, with fewer workers, using satellite connectivity and advanced lidar (light detection and ranging) cameras, the same type that are used on self-driving cars, to monitor the work remotely. It isn’t easy. “There’s a lot of texture to the trees. Every 10 feet of skid trail is slightly different,” says Jenkins, 35. But logging in the dark isn’t the most intriguing part of the plans at Kodama, which has raised $6.6 million in seed funding from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and others. After cutting down the trees, Jenkins plans to bury them—to help slow climate change and to reap salable carbon offsets (and maybe, someday, tax credits too). Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Fukushima: Sushi lovers grab last bites as seafood ban hits Japan    "I'll keep eating Japanese seafood... It's just that addictive," said Hong Kong diner Mr Ho while standing outside a Japanese seafood restaurant. He was among a number of Hongkongers who had been flocking to Japanese eateries for their fill of sushi and sashimi in recent weeks. Japanese seafood has always been very popular in the city. But there has been a renewed urgency to consume it in the days leading up to the Fukushima nuclear waste water release. Continued here Tech billionaires on the mat: What jujitsu reveals about Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Silicon Valley    In June, after it was revealed Mark Zuckerberg's Meta (META) was creating Threads — a rival to X, formerly known as Twitter — Elon Musk tweeted "I’m up for a cage match if he is lol." That spurred a wave of media discourse fueled by trash-talking between the two tech moguls. While the match appears to have been called off, with Zuckerberg recently posting on Threads, "I think it's time to move on," both revealed a common denominator: their apparent deep appreciation for Brazilian jujitsu, a self-defense martial art emphasizing grappling and ground fighting. Zuckerberg was recently promoted to a blue belt in jujitsu. Meanwhile, Musk practiced jujitsu in an impromptu session with Lex Fridman, a black belt, computer scientist, and podcaster. Continued here

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