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Circularity in action: Awakening Ghana’s circular economy

Impact Hub

project in Armenia is a transformative initiative spearheaded by the collaborative efforts of the Impact Hub Network, Impact Hub Yerevan , and the Environment and Health NGO , with support from the European Union in Armenia.

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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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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. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. Interior of the Batcave, 2006 ( Jake Dobkin / Gothamist).

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Why Yelp should pay attention to not shooting itself in the face (and what ripping off Foursquare and taking big money from Elevation mean)

This is going to be BIG.

Back in July, I wrote a piece called “ Why Yelp (…and every single retail establishment) Should Support Foursquare ”. Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology. That’s not the kind of place innovators tend to like to work.

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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. .”

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

TechCrunch

Zamir said that Nana was named after his mother, who raised David as a single parent after his father passed away, a reference to working hard and being practical. “I am not a supporter of what they told you,” he said in an angry voice. “There are 5.9 “It’s really upsetting me.”