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The Magnetic Force of Purpose

Better Ventures

When we started Better Ventures in 2011, we had a lot of explaining to do. Back in those days, there were very few venture funds with an explicit mandate to invest in companies focused on positive social/environmental impact and even fewer that were focused on seed stage, mission-driven technology startups.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Speaking of giving credit where credit is due, nominations are open for the seventh annual Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards, to be conferred by the Women in Sustainability Alumnae Group at a virtual ceremony May 19. The idea of a day celebrating the accomplishments of the female gender in the U.S. reaches back to 1909.

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A common fertilizer keeps causing explosions. The EPA doesn’t think it’s hazardous.

Grist

It obliterated three freighters on Galveston Bay in 1947, killing 581 people and leveling or burning down much of Texas City, Texas, in what remains the nation’s worst industrial accident. Article continues below. Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it. More in this series.

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