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3BL Media

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GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. LinkedIn | Company profile. "The

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GreenBiz

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