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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Entrepreneurial innovation, new investment and regulatory models must be promoted and accelerated to prepare for future pandemics, climate change and to restore the environment. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes. Back to normal is not an option.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

government. For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. government took Indigenous children, including at least one of Patterson’s own relatives, and placed them in boarding schools. Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Entrepreneurial innovation, new investment and regulatory models must be promoted and accelerated to prepare for future pandemics, climate change and to restore the environment. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Entrepreneurial innovation, new investment and regulatory models must be promoted and accelerated to prepare for future pandemics, climate change and to restore the environment. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

We also work to improve plant biotechnologies and have contributed to proof-of-concept studies demonstrating that genome editing can be used to develop useful traits in barley, brassica and potatoes by deleting just a few letters of DNA. This led to a government consultation on the matter. Power in the seed system.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Others are making waves in the business world from other perches, including government, consultancies, startups and environmental justice advocacy groups. Senior Sustainability Consultant — Climate Strategy Lead, Quantis International; San Diego. Manager, Sustainability and Climate Change Consulting, PwC; Montreal.