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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And some schemes in South Africa too? It’s a bit confusing, because at the end of 2019, we had 11 currencies, we’d gone digital, and trading was happening through ‘liquidity pools’ where a village could trade with another village, and we were experimenting with blockchain. Maybe that’s more transparent, but it hasn’t been sustainable.

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The AgriFood News Aggregator: Soft Robotics, Nutreco, Wilbur-Ellis, Walmart, Funding Opps, Climate Corp, more

AFN Sustainable Protein

USDA Announces New Funding Opportunity for Sustainable Agricultural Systems – PR. Vultus and nHack to cooperate in Asia – PR. Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain – Bloomberg. How JUST’s Oatmeal is Designed to Do Good and Make a Profit in West Africa. AgriFood Industry News.

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The AgriFood News Aggregator: Soft Robotics, Nutreco, Wilbur-Ellis, Walmart, Funding Opps, Climate Corp, more

AFN Sustainable Protein

USDA Announces New Funding Opportunity for Sustainable Agricultural Systems – PR. Vultus and nHack to cooperate in Asia – PR. Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain – Bloomberg. How JUST’s Oatmeal is Designed to Do Good and Make a Profit in West Africa. AgriFood Industry News.

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Salesforce, Microsoft get creative with clean energy procurement

Business Green

Under an agreement, San Francisco-based Salesforce will buy 280,000 megawatt-hours of clean power over the next eight years from small projects in Brazil, India, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, developed by aggregator Powertrust , headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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An Environmentally and Socially Conscious Food Supply: Our Investment in Agricycle

Clean Energy Trust

And in particularly poverty-stricken regions like parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, there is an even greater difference. More than half of those in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa. What’s more, substantially all (99%) of these undernourished people live in Asia, Africa, or Latin American and the Caribbean.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.

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The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”

Andrew Winston

Below is my annual year-end review of sustainability that was posted at HBR.org right after Christmas. Every year, I look for important themes in sustainability that will have lasting impact on society, from glaring evidence of global megatrends to inspiring stories of corporate action. (Hi to my blog readers. Happy new year.