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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Blockchain’s energy sector uses range from the highly speculative—think peer-to-peer energy trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings (ICOs)—to more incremental efforts, grounded in real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. are testing it out. are testing it out.

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How ‘chamas’ and mutual credit are changing Africa: Shaila Agha of the Sarafu Network

Low Impact

Today I’m talking with Shaila Agha of the Sarafu Network about ‘chamas’ and mutual credit , and how they’re changing Africa. I think they’re a little bit wary, because blockchain technology isn’t easy. So I started to study fintech, and disruptions in financial technologies. We’re going to apply too.

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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. The technology is there. Is that right? Is that right?

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Harnessing flare gas to power modular data centres

Smart Energy International

Flare gas and excess power from solar, wind and other renewable technologies that would otherwise go to waste in locations around the world is in the sights of the Oslo-based startup. Norway headquartered Earth Wind & Power is investigating flare gas utilisation for power in Indonesia and Nigeria.

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

Vultus and nHack to cooperate in Asia – PR. Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain – Bloomberg. Tyson Invests in Israeli Cultured Meat Startup Future Meat Technologies. How JUST’s Oatmeal is Designed to Do Good and Make a Profit in West Africa. AgriFood Commentary.

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

Vultus and nHack to cooperate in Asia – PR. Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain – Bloomberg. Tyson Invests in Israeli Cultured Meat Startup Future Meat Technologies. How JUST’s Oatmeal is Designed to Do Good and Make a Profit in West Africa. AgriFood Commentary.

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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. Much of this is due to inefficiencies in the supply chain, in particular spoilage resulting from improper storage and lack of preservation technologies. This is just the tip of the iceberg. of the population affected).