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Using AI to Help the World Thrive

Andrew Winston

In 2014, IBM launched a 10-year, $100 million project to use its Watson cognitive computing system to help Africa solve business and social challenges. The program, dubbed AI for Earth , is finding and funding innovators who are making progress in four critical areas — climate change, water, agriculture, and biodiversity.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

AGreenLiving

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy).

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent.

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

Andrew Winston

Finally, Capetown, South Africa, is essentially out of water due in part to drought — the city nearly shut off all the taps this year, but has held off “Day Zero” through ongoing restrictions and aggressive citizen action. State Department to use blockchain to fight forced labor. Venezuela’s last glacier is disappearing.