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Add industry file: Sustainability / Climate Tech #192

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Add a climate tech naming guide at `industries/sustainability.md`. Depends on #180.

Why climate tech naming is distinct

  • Mission-driven naming — the name often needs to signal purpose, not just function
  • Greenwashing risk — overusing nature/eco vocabulary can feel performative. "EcoGreen Solutions" is greenwashing-adjacent
  • B2B vs B2C split — carbon accounting (Watershed, Persefoni) vs consumer products (Oatly, Allbirds) have very different tones
  • Scientific credibility — climate tech needs to sound serious, not hippie. Investors and regulators judge by the name
  • "Clean/Green" fatigue — Clean Energy, GreenTech, EcoSmart — these prefixes are exhausted

Sections to cover

  • Case studies: Watershed, Pachama, Climeworks, Oatly, Beyond Meat, Rivian
  • Anti-patterns: "Eco-" prefix, "Green-" prefix, nature cliches (leaf, tree, sun logos with matching names)
  • Territory map: Restoration/regeneration, cycles/circular, resilience/adaptation, precision/measurement

Before submitting

Read CONTRIBUTING.md and run `markdownlint-cli2 '**/*.md'` before pushing.

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