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Ready for a Fight: Behind a Company’s Long Record of Activist Green Giving
With marketing trends driving more brands to embrace political causes, Patagonia’s past couple of years could be mistaken for a masterful PR campaign. But the company’s history shows its activism is no stunt.
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- Environment
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Deep Dive: Two of America’s Wealthiest Philanthropists Are Teaming Up to Protect the Oceans
They’re calling it the Bloomberg-OceanX initiative, and it will coordinate activities, to some extent, between Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Vibrant Oceans Initiative, and Ray and his son Mark Dalio’s OceanX, an exploration and media outfit.
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- Environment, Investing
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Amazon is investing millions to keep packaging out of landfills
There's plenty of work to be done: The United Nations says about 300 million tons of plastic waste are produced every year, and global plastic production is expected to triple by 2050.
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: The Green Lobby’s Misdirected Anger
There are only two ways for the world to avoid what most scientists refer to as disastrous global warming. One way is to stop economic growth, which would be immoral, while the other would require us to deploy our greatest natural resource.
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- Energy, Environment
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- climate change
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IBM to Tackle Ocean Plastic and Global Poverty with Blockchain Technology
IBM aired a TV Commercial during an NFL match on September 17, 2018, called Plastic Bank, a new initiative which aims to tackle ocean plastic and global poverty with blockchain technology. The Plastic Bank is backed by IBM Technology which uses the LinuxOne blockchain to encourage entrepreneurs from the world’s most impoverished communities to clean up plastic in exchange for digital credits.
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- Environment, Technology
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Press release: FMO Investment Propels Meloy Fund Past $22 Million for Sustainable Coastal Fisheries
“FMO is proud to join the Meloy Fund and contribute to the creation of economic opportunities for small-scale fisheries in Indonesia and The Philippines” said Maurice Scheepens, Investment Officer of the Agri, Food & Water department at FMO. “The partnership with Rare, which provides amongst others technical expertise and networks, ensures that inclusive development is linked with the conservation of critical marine habitat.”
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- Environment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Rising Carbon Emissions Make Crops Less Nutritious, Threaten Global Health
By emitting historically high levels of carbon pollution, we are literally making our food less nutritious.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- climate change
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Oil’s Surge Clouds Clean-Air Quest in Emerging Economies
The nations are embracing such supplies once again as crude’s recovery exacerbates economic pain and boosts inflation, threatening to undermine efforts made during oil’s slump to curb pollution.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Asia Pacific