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Podcast: Is Helium full of hot air?

Stacey Higginbotham

Then we talk about Apple’s Air Tags and their potential use to track thieves and suitcases. My suitcase and obligatory Air Tag so I can track it through today’s luggage hell. The report pointed out that Helium only made $6,500 in the month of June from data rates. Image courtesy of A.

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Rewilding British farms is bringing back threatened species, storing carbon and growing hope

Corporate Knights

If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. Rewind 23 years and this place was a debt-ridden, subsidy-dependent farm, its already poor soil made worse by intensive agricultural practices. The birdsong is unreal. And above it all, a stork wheels.

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New tracking tool helps companies prove their supply chains aren’t harming biodiversity

Corporate Knights

Saunders’s idea for NatureHelm came from a decade of working with her other for-profit company, Wildlife Drones , which sells aerial drones that can track radio-frequency wildlife tags. Take, for example, a hypothetical coffee grower with a small farm. Saunders says. And it means that they’re really engaged in it as well.”

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Comparing Business Models for Scaling Access to Productive Use of Energy Appliances in Agriculture: The Advantages of Pay-Per-Use

James Militzer

This article explores different business and end-user financing models that can support PUE uptake, and focuses on the pay-per-use model pioneered by the farming-as-a-service company Oorja Development Solutions Limited (Oorja) in rural India. Factoring in farmers’ inability to invest upfront means that the total market size of $11.3

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Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain

GreenBiz

Even before Dang was infiltrating the foodservice industry of the North Atlantic region, he had a deep understanding of the agricultural supply chain from growing up on a small Connecticut farm. Dang couldn’t believe that headline: During his childhood on farms and near restaurants, he hadn’t noticed anything like that kind of waste.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon deforestation. . Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio.

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Finding the ‘True Value’ of Food Can Drive Innovation Across Sectors

Stanford Social Innovation

percent: that’s the increased food quantity for participating farmers in India’s Community Managed Natural Farming Initiative , which has helped 86 percent of growers improve living conditions and cut emissions by 55 percent. The story of these impacts is not abstract. But if you never ask the question, you never get the answer.

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