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Circularity in action: Awakening Ghana’s circular economy

Impact Hub

Two major companies stand out of the lot for developing ingenious ways to reduce, reuse and recycle in a city that currently struggles to grasp the concept of circularity. Impact Hub Accra , as an all-inclusive hub, heavily leverages innovation from startups within the hub community, an unlimited resource.

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

TechCrunch

” He does not specify which scientific studies he’s referring to — but a five-month investigation into meat industry lobbying tactics conducted by DeSmog last year found suspiciously similar climatewashing claims featuring in its PR and lobbying. .” But what is regenerative agriculture? ” So, yeah, uncanny.).

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Local developers and constituency groups have been foaming at the mouth to weigh in on what should happen with all of these properties.

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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. ” Lime scooters outside El Retiro Park in Madrid (Image Credits: Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch).

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. “There are 5.9