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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors.

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3 under-the-radar forces in food

GreenBiz

Membership at Crowd Cow , a marketplace for craft meat and seafood, doubled in April alone. They’re also using zero-waste commitments and new packaging technology to aggressively tackle the delivery sector’s waste problems. The story: Online marketplaces that connect consumers with small-scale producers have boomed during the pandemic.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors.

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3 under-the-radar forces in food

AGreenLiving

Membership at Crowd Cow , a marketplace for craft meat and seafood, doubled in April alone. They’re also using zero-waste commitments and new packaging technology to aggressively tackle the delivery sector’s waste problems. Convenience and dollar outlets remain the only food outlets in many low-income neighborhoods.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

At COP26, WWF secured commitments from Co-op, Sainsbury's, Tesco, M&S, and Waitrose to halve the environmental impact of UK shopping baskets by the end of 2030, as part of which they have pledged to encourage greener diets and tackle food and packaging waste.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. And too often, the food we produce comes with unsustainable impacts on biodiversity and climate.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Still, the company is stepping out as an innovator in sustainable finance — it was the first buyer into a new reef credits system in Australia , and Herweijer’s innovation lens and ongoing research into risks associated with nature and biodiversity loss no doubt helped land her new job. . So far, that effort has diverted 1.7