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Blockchain-based renewable credits fund solar PV in South Sudan

Smart Energy International

Malakal on the White Nile in the northeast of South Sudan was destroyed in the country’s civil war that began in 2013 and now houses one of the largest camps in the country with more than 30,000 internally displaced persons. Have you read?

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How carbon-smart farming is catalyzing the big bucks needed to transform the way America eats

GreenBiz

million to fund its marketplace, which uses blockchain technology to pay farmers for carbon sequestration. The foundation hired Ben Dobson to implement the transition in 2013. dropped by half from 1950 to 1970, and the detrimental environmental and health impacts of these chemicals played out.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

With Michael Braungart, 2013. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. The key thing, though, is that it is really about ecological health down to the molecule. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. It's writing copy, storyboarding videos. Mesbah Sabur, 27. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink “grill-stache.” It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.