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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

It’s hard to grow enough food to meet these needs, not to mention in a sustainable way and in a world where water is increasingly in short supply. Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. .

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SoTecIn: Connecting people

Impact Hub

Enter SoTecIn Factory, a dynamic collaborative initiative with a mission to enhance the sustainability and resilience of European industries. At its core, SoTecIn Factory seeks to confront the inherent shortcomings of existing industrial models, which pose challenges both from a social and ecological perspective.

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5 Tips for Making Time to Make a Difference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Yet, since late 2016, he has also worn the hat of chairman of the Maharashtra State Khadi and Village Industries Board (MSKIB) , a position that lets him serve as an agent and driver of social and economic change for rural communities throughout his home state in India. Put a sustainable plan in motion. .

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SoTecIn: Connecting people

Impact Hub

Enter SoTecIn Factory, a dynamic collaborative initiative with a mission to enhance the sustainability and resilience of European industries. At its core, SoTecIn Factory seeks to confront the inherent shortcomings of existing industrial models, which pose challenges both from a social and ecological perspective.

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

With 2050, Ekeland is going back to the drawing board with a different vision when it comes to investment thesis, fund structure and the firm’s own values. For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Investment is self-fulfilling,” Ekeland told me.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. Just because there are a lot of startups living off of a certain ecology in a city doesn’t mean you can’t build a different kind of company in that place. They’re all doing pretty well.

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Holey Grail Donuts bites into $9M for Los Angeles retail expansion

TechCrunch

Dreiling, who was previously doing ecological engineering in Oregon, teamed up with his sister, Hana Dreiling, a private chef in Kauai, Hawaii, to start Holey Grail Donuts. He believes his company is the only one making its donuts in this sustainable way. “We The firm’s Tony Conrad is on Holey Grail Donuts’ board of directors.

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