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Cisco: Empowering Youth To Combat Climate Change Through Service Years

3BL Media

What if young people concerned about the effects of climate change had the opportunity to perform hands-on service to mitigate its effects on vulnerable communities? Since 2013, Cisco has provided the organization vital technical and financial support, starting with the platform.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Compete with China in Emerging Markets: Transitioning from a ‘Death Economy’ to a ‘Life Economy’

James Militzer

The world is in the midst of a difficult transition, moving from a degenerative “death economy” to a regenerative “life economy.” This strategy has generated impressive results: To take one example, from 2013 to 2020, as reported in Bloomberg , China reduced air pollution nearly as much as the U.S. did in three decades.

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On the road to greater water resilience

Sustainability Matters

Due to climate change, we are seeing flood and drought cycles at a much higher rate of occurrence than before. Since 2013, extensive modernisation works have replaced and automated ageing water delivery infrastructure, saving hundreds of gigalitres of water and increasing food security.

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Sustainable Agriculture Comes Full Circle With Data Science

3BL Media

At the same time, climate change presents new challenges, such as water scarcity and increasingly severe and frequent extreme weather events. We can simulate scenarios of potential regenerative farming practices or combinations of practices for farmers in our programs,” Shankar said.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." billion toward regenerative agriculture into 2025. Elsa Wenzel.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D. Elsa Wenzel. Tue, 01/19/2021 - 00:30. But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints.

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How the climate crisis is accelerating food systems reform

GreenBiz

In a 2013 demo, for instance, scientists showed off a lab-grown burger that cost $325,000. . That’s more than enough to dramatically accelerate the take-up of regenerative agriculture and, if the practices work as hoped, to begin sequestering carbon in U.S. Climate Change. Food Systems. Innovation. Featured Column.

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