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Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million

GreenBiz

Apeel, which got its start in 2012 with a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has attracted funding from many high-profile funds, such as Andreessen Horowitz, as well as several firms that have championed a focus on climate tech including S2G Ventures, DBL Partners and Powerplant Ventures.

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SparkMeter Closes $12M Round to Expand From Metering Minigrids to Analyzing ‘Broken Grids’

GreenTechMedia

From its start in 2012 as a spinout of a nonprofit group bringing power to Haitian towns and villages, the company has expanded to more than 22 countries and more than 100,000 meters sold. SparkMeter, a Washington, D.C.-based based startup, has made it its mission to provide a metering platform to meet these atypical operating conditions.

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Food waste startup Apeel Sciences snags $250m backing

Business Green

Apeel, which got its start in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has attracted funding from many high-profile funds, such as Andreessen Horowitz, as well as several firms that have championed a focus on climate tech including S2G Ventures, DBL Partners and Powerplant Ventures.

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Impossible Foods teams up with OSI to ramp up production in busy week for plant-based meat

AFN Sustainable Protein

He worked at Google from 2003-2012, overseeing more than $10 billion in sales in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, among other leadership roles. Before that, Woodside was Chief Executive Officer of Motorola Mobility, a $10 billion mobile device company, after its acquisition by Google.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends. It gave him energy to go after the big guys.”.

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World Energy Storage Day: a global platform for the energy industry’s potential

Smart Energy International

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. and chair of World Energy Storage Day.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

million square kilometers, the second lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind only September 2012. mid-west, parts of China, India and South-East Asia, Africa and South America will experience such severe temperatures that existing crops will in the very least be significantly impacted and yield reduced.