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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. And modern society has caught up with that, of course. How exciting.

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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

I’m from the US originally, and I came here with the Peace Corps about 12 years ago, and I’d read Bernard Lietaer’s books, and visited Berkshares and other places. Then in 2020, we’d been using third-party APIs to connect to the blockchain. Informal debts, lack of credit, lack of currency is such a rampant, visceral thing in Kenya.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. Emerging new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence can help us to understand and identify areas to invest resources and increase positive impact. People, corporations and governments are seemingly taking action.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

AGreenLiving

That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. And modern society has caught up with that, of course. How exciting.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

AGreenLiving

We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. Emerging new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence can help us to understand and identify areas to invest resources and increase positive impact. People, corporations and governments are seemingly taking action.

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'Reconcile development and preservation': Inside Natura & Co's alternative vision for the Amazon

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One way the firm is working with communities is through its effort to grow the number of natural ingredients on its books, Behar says, explaining the drive to establish new value chains around tropical plants, nuts, and berries is designed to deliver economic benefits to traditional communities while simultaenously tackling deforestation. "We