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One social entrepreneur and activist’s mission to defend the environment and indigenous communities in Venezuela

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The YLAI program undoubtedly provided me with incredible tools, and even years after I participated, the connections and experiences I gained from it have paid off and have definitely marked a before and after in my professional life.

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3 Ways to Boost Your Team’s Work From Home Performance

StartupNation

There may be many aspects that favor remote work, but the lack of space to develop personal relationships is a definite downside. Thinking about how to support your remote team also pays off. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter! Interact… efficiently! Staying in touch with your immediate team is vital.

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How to avoid greenwashing your business

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

A company announcing the goal for its packaging to be 100% recyclable or reusable by 2030 without providing defined targets and a schedule to support its goals would be considered an example of greenwashing. These terms might sound great, but your company could be feeding into greenwashing with no explanation or definition.

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Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener

TechCrunch

Klim’s product includes an app that supports farmers to transition to regenerative agricultural methods by helping them set goals and determine the best combination of techniques to apply to their farmland (such as which cover crops to sew for their soil type etc). There’s a financial support side too.

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Embracing aluminum containers, Uni wants to completely remove plastic packaging from your home

TechCrunch

Most personal care brands barely get caught in the third of those ecological safety nets, but Uni is picking a fight with the industry to change all that. It’s a cursed misfortune that plastic is cheap and abundant — the financial cost of the material doesn’t reflect the ecological impact of that shampoo bottle.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

The definitive article about 33 Flatbush--the kind of commercial building you would drive by a million times without thinking twice-- was written in the NY Times a few years ago. It's the kind of place you just don't find in Manhattan, and definitely don't find in Silicon Valley. 33 Flatbush. 10 Jay Street. 55 Washington Street.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are a new generation of young people in government. .” France and Germany.

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