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empowering underresourced communities through waste innovation: a q&a with Dr. Caroline Baillie of the University of San Diego

Venture Well

Caroline Bailie of the University of San Diego teaches students to design waste innovation solutions for the social and ecological challenges of discarded trash in California’s Tijuana Estuary canyons.

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The Future of Conservation NGOs Innovation Challenge is on!

Impact Hub

To tackle this matter, Impact Hub partnered up with the Luc Hoffmann Institute and the IUCN CEESP* to launch the Future of Conservation NGOs Innovation Challenge. To remain relevant and legitimate, in addition to effectively dealing with the present global ecological crisis, conservation NGOs need to radically shift.

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Creating climate solutions with YLAI alumni: Nina Escamilla in Mexico 

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

However, one of our main challenges is food waste, mainly associated with the first link in the chain with primary producers, for whom the impact is ecological and economical. I am passionate about everything related to food, how our systems work and how humans relate to each other through food.

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EO Members Share Entrepreneurial Trends for the New Year

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The coming year will offer new, innovative avenues to make an entrepreneur’s journey more worthwhile, provided we adopt technological advances while staying rooted in our vision and guiding principles. Be it a product or service, technology and digital tools add to enhanced reach, innovation and overall customer experience.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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Carbon accounting platform acquired by Sage as ClimateTech heats up

TechCrunch

By combining Spherics’ innovative software with Sage’s digital network, we are connecting businesses with their customer and supplier emissions data, enabling easy and collaborative climate action across value chains which helps to reduce carbon.” . .

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Hong Kong’s Brinc Launches Climate Tech Program to Support Early-Stage Startups in Carbon Dioxide Removal Solutions

AsiaTechDaily

In addition to its accelerator programs, Brinc offers investment services and distributed innovation strategies to support corporations in sourcing new startups and technologies. Headquartered in Hong Kong Brinc is a prominent global venture accelerator that operates 13 accelerator programs across seven countries.

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