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Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million

GreenBiz

Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million. This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250 million in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. It's applied in packaging facilities or warehouses using a water-based formula. Heather Clancy. Tue, 05/26/2020 - 06:01.

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Food waste startup Apeel Sciences snags $250m backing

Business Green

This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250m in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. I hate to see food wasted, when there are so many people in the world who are going without," Winfrey said in the funding press release. I think it gives confidence to put more product on the shelf.

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'Supercharging adoption of sustainable solutions': Top brands sign up to 100+ Accelerator green supply chain programme

Business Green

Some of the initiatives have included returnable packaging programmes, the roll out of new cleaning technologies to reduce water and energy use in Colombian brewing operations, projects to provide insurance and traceability for small farms in Africa and South America, and measures to improve waste collection in Brazil.

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Smart energy benefits the people, and those who deliver it

Smart Energy International

This allows us to feed energy into the grid that previously was untapped or wasted. These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. We can also find water to recycle that was previously disposed of.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to an analysis published by Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, the transport, processing, retail, and packaging of food, account for only a small share of emissions, while most GHG emissions caused by animal agriculture result from the production of the meat itself.

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A brief history of money

Low Impact

Also, if a state’s money was a useful commodity (precious metal) – the state would be on a constant quest for precious metal – a waste of energy and resources. The gold that the Spanish stole from South America didn’t hang around in Spain for very long. Rome vs the moneychangers. Lincoln was of course assassinated.