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Impact unicorns: Green firms dominate list of UK's most valuable tech start-ups

Business Green

Government reveals six of the 12 most valuable technology start-ups in the UK are focused on the green economy. These companies sit at the top of almost 900 impact start-ups and scale-ups that are using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), bid data, and blockchain to try and tackle global problems.

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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact

GreenBiz

In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda’s project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain — and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year. Recycler Plastic Bank is also using IBM blockchain services to verify its claims. Blockchain.

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Alphabet moonshot Tidal heralds the age of precision aquaculture

Business Green

Much of the fuss related to sustainable food systems is focused on land-centric technology solutions. Its mission: to develop technologies that help those in the business of raising fish do so more sustainably. The company is rolling out the technology at multiple sites in Norway. The next horizon, however, may lie offshore.

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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact

Business Green

Covalent reveals how Blockchain technology is offering a consumers a peek at its environmental footprint. In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda's project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain - and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year.

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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact

AGreenLiving

In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda’s project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain — and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year. It’s not the only consumer brand dreaming about that sort of connection or looking to digital technology as the answer.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. Best known for its butter — and the Native American logo it retired last year — Land O’Lakes is also a 21st-century force in technology.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos.