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Using AI to Help the World Thrive

Andrew Winston

In December, the company announced an expanded commitment of $50 million to, as Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote in a blog post, “put artificial intelligence technology in the hands of individuals and organizations who are working to protect our planet.” We need help, he wrote, to “convert it into actionable intelligence.”.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. From its cosmetics direct-sales origins in 1969, Natura &Co has matured to swallow up Avon, the Body Shop and Aesop.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Its mission: to offer products that “promote the harmonious relationship of the individual with oneself, with others and with nature.”

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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. In his free time Inesh likes to travel, play soccer and work on his blog on sustainability. Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo. David Singler. (He/Him/His)

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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. . Heather Clancy. Oliver Camp, 2 6 . Mesbah Sabur, 27.

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

GreenBiz

The soil becomes richer and healthier, runoff that pollutes water is reduced, biodiversity and habitat for the birds, bees and other wildlife increases, farm animals live better, and the food produced is more nutritious. million to fund its marketplace, which uses blockchain technology to pay farmers for carbon sequestration.

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

Andrew Winston

(Hi to my blog readers. State Department to use blockchain to fight forced labor. Happy new year. Below is my annual year-end review of sustainability that was posted at HBR.org right after Christmas. I'm believe it's the most viewed piece I've ever written for them (hundreds of thousands of views). So let me clarify it a bit.