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

Both Sides of the Table

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. . 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.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. They just booked some space at NYU, threw up a fundraising page on Kickstarter, and started talking it up in the community. Step #2: Pitch investors.

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

TechCrunch

For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. If you browse the business book section of your local bookshop, chances are you’ll see a ton of books about building a startup, growing as fast as possible and not paying attention to structural damage.

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Assembling a Tulip: Can you engineer thriving Web3 communities of humans (DAOs) using code?

This is going to be BIG.

Our purpose at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse is to expose our local community to the waterfront—to a new activity build around an ecological resource that should be publicly enjoyed for free. Our program relies a lot on trust and teamwork—things that don’t come out of a rule book. That rarely works out.

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Pancake aims to make customers flip for its virtual home design platform

TechCrunch

Customers can go on the website and book a session with a designer, providing them with measurements and photos of the room. Pancake plans to use its funding to further develop its platform and add new features like an ecological footprint calculator so customers can see how sustainable their designs are.

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Leveraging digital platform to amplify green participation by the public: An Ant Group case study presented at COP28

AsiaTechDaily

After user authorization, users can earn green energy points in the mini-program as a reward when making environmentally conscious choices through the Alipay platform, such as paying for a bus ride instead of driving to work, booking a train ticket online to reduce paper use, or unlocking a shared bike.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. As the book world’s leading platform for exclusive access to sneak peeks, advance previews, and special giveaways, we live our mission every day and give readers a chance to See It First.

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