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

GreenBiz

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. The price of oil plunged below zero on some days, and customer demand remains at an all-time low. The pandemic demands that business and government leaders be ready, willing and able to respond while building secure and resilient supply chains and infrastructure.

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'From barley to bar': AB InBev trials blockchain to track and trace barley supply chain

Business Green

A pilot launched last week by the company, which is one of the largest global buyers of barley, is to use blockchain technology to give beer drinkers a better understanding of the provenance of the ingredients in their beer, while helping northern European growers' improve their barley yields and environmental footprint, AB InBev said.

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

AGreenLiving

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. No doubt, they will bring countless benefits.

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

AGreenLiving

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. No doubt, they will bring countless benefits.

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Circularity Challenge Spotlight: Circularise

Greentown Labs

But Circularise allows companies to securely share insights regarding their “ingredients” by using blockchain and zero-knowledge proof (a technique in cryptography that protects the “recipe” while allowing to share valuable information about the “ingredients”). If the “recipe” changes, so does the information Circularise provides.

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BASF’s Director of Sustainability on How to Embed Responsible Environmental Practices into Your Business: Q&A with Mitchell Toomey

Greentown Labs

Then we have a category at the bottom called the “challenge” products, and those are the ones that have been identified as containing materials or using processes that are becoming out of vogue, and we’re seeing legislation move away from those for some of our customers, and so we believe the demand will drop.