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Prestige Fragrance Houses Draw On Sustainability Initiatives To Appeal To Gen Z Consumers
Chanel N°5 getty Prestige fragrance brands are leveraging the value of their ongoing sustainability initiatives to appeal to a younger, Gen Z consumer. As the first point of engagement younger consume...
Green Hydrogen: providing sustainability, gamificatio, licensing IP, and education
Solar and wind power conversion technologies are the top alternatives to fossil fuels — they are more environmentally and economically friendly. However, these two are lacking in maintaining electrica...
Energy Sustainability, Green Hydrogen – The Cryptonomist
The global energy industry, particularly the transport and mobility sectors, is long overdue for a paradigm shift from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy, thanks to green hydrogen. There is an inc...
Let’s Talk Food Waste, Protecting Meatpacking Workers And What Does Better Food Policy Look Like?
I’m thinking a lot about food waste this week. Maybe it’s the millions upon millions of chickens, turkeys and egg-laying birds that have been killed due to avian flu. Big food companies like to tout t...
Wikimedia Foundation halts accepting crypto due to sustainability concerns
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, will no longer accept cryptocurrency donations. Among the main reasons for the removal were environ...
Saudi Arabia Looking to Achieve Sustainability Aims of Vision 2030
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is a strategic framework for the kingdom as it shifts away from an oil-dependent economy and looks to a more sustainable, non-oil future. The plan is based on three co...
Defining The Next Generation Of ESG Investing
Getty getty The last few years have accelerated the conversation for many investors around the importance of integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into their investment analy...
Blockchain Sustainability in 2022 and Beyond
Blockchain sustainability is a complex and multifaceted concept. It is about the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of human and technological development. The term, although frequently ap...
Crypto.com slashes rewards to ‘ensure long-term sustainability’
Crypto.com has announced changes to its CRO Card rewards program, effective from June 1, 2022. The changes include a reduction in cashback, a monthly cap on the cashback receivable, and a phasing out ...
Crypto Weekly Roundup: BTC Adopting Sustainability, DeFi Mortgage In Austin, USN Live On NEAR, Musk Acquires Twitter, LatAm Regulations, And More
Despite the turbulence affecting the rally of BTC, ETH, and other prominent cryptos, the changing landscape of regulations in Latin America has set the ball rolling. Additionally, this week also marks...
How Water Became A Weapon, The Caribbean’s Food Insecurity Problem And From Blog To $25 Million Business
It’s been a busy week on the food and agriculture beat: There was the House Agriculture Committee hearing featuring top meatpacking CEOs, there was Beyond Meat’s pop from McPlant fake news, and ...
Will Manufacturing Ever Become Sustainable? No, But At Least Stop Doing Stupid Stuff That Slows The Regenerative Economy Of The Future
You might have noticed that everyone says they are “sustainable” these days. True statement. You cannot find any company globally that claims to be unsustainable. Every big company has an ESG function...
How Crypto is Contributing to Environmental sustainability in Africa
Coming out of the COVID pandemic, sub-Saharan Africa is defying the odds with an explosive level of economic growth that has been unseen for decades. With more people moving about and more goods needi...
Alberto Jaen And Nadja-Timea Scherrer Of Plus305 Talk To Us About Sustainability In Business And People…
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Leonardo DiCaprio Backed Climate Fund Regeneration.VC Closes $45 Million To Bring Sustainability Across Omnichannel
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 22: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for a photo following a Divest-Invest … [+] new conference on September 22, 2015 in New York City. Leonardo DiCaprio joined leade...
What The West’s Drought Means For Food, Why The Food Industry Needs Economic Justice And Have We Reached Peak Vegan Chicken Nugget?
I started Fresh Take to keep sustainability at the forefront of the conversation every week, not just when the newsletter falls on Earth Day. That said, I’ve put together a particularly climate-focuse...
Algorand’s sustainability model to lead to future growth
Algorand ALGO/USD is a blockchain platform and cryptocurrency network that was specifically designed to enable functionality similar to the one of a major payment processor. It utilizes a consensus me...
The Sustainability of Move-to-Earn Model
April 20, 2022, 2:33PM EDT • 19 min read Quick Take StepN is a Solana-based move-to-earn (M2E) project that gamifies running activities and allows users to earn in-game currency simply by moving. It h...
Algorand Ups Sustainability Pledge With Self-Executing Code
“We decided to make our carbon-negative pledge forever with blockchain transparency and perpetual smart contracts,” Ihsanullah said in an interview. “A smart contract takes the parameters of the block...
Mars Overhauls Cocoa Sustainability Program To Focus Squarely On Farmer Income
Mile Désirée is a cocoa farmer in Cote d’Ivoire and a part of the Mars sustainable cocoa pilot … [+] program. The program has an aim to double incomes by 2030. Mile is a member of CAVA co-...
How Net Zero Became Our Global Climate Goal And Why We Need It
The latest IPCC report is a grave warning from scientists about the health of the planet in the face … [+] of climate change. Future Publishing via Getty Images 2021 was the year net-zero commit...
Why Luxury Brands Must Control Their Own Recommerce Channel
(Photo by Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images) Getty Images One big conversation at last week’s Shoptalk conference of retail and tech leaders focused on luxury recommerce and how to offer a branded luxury ex...
24 Year-Old Best Friends And Female Founders Launch Basquet, The First Online Grocer With The Mission To Alleviate Food Worry From Every Table
Ana Isabel Diaz (right) and Ivanhova Kaufman (left) Co-founders and best friends Basquet Best Friends and Founders Ana Isabel Diaz and Ivanhova Kaufman, who met while studying in Boston, set out with ...
Intel Launches New Bitcoin Mining Chips Focused on Sustainability
Intel today launched its “Intel Blockscale ASIC,” a second-generation Bitcoin mining chip announced in February. The chip features a 580 GH/s (gigahashes per second) hash rate, while consuming just 26...
As Energy Price Hikes Bite, Retailers Look To Sustainability To Cut Costs
As energy prices soar, retailers turn to sustainability to control costs and meet environmental … [+] goals getty With higher energy prices coming into effect in the UK today, many retailers are...
Opinion: Ukraine war is a wake-up call to ditch oil and gas forever
That invasion, and the subsequent U.S. ban on oil imports from Russia, are partly responsible, but they aren’t the only reason. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the impact of t...
Gold, commodities and Bitcoin amid sustainability panic
Two years of pandemic haven’t sunk the global economy completely but they certainly haven’t helped. From winter 2019 to the present, the world seems to have stumbled into what we might call in jargon ...
Elon Musk Says Bill Gates has a $500 million short position in Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is irked at Bill Gates. He doesn’t see how Gates, a leading proponent of sustainable energy, could possibly sell Tesla’s stock short. And Musk says Gates is doing just that. In a t...