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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. . It’s hard to grow enough food to meet these needs, not to mention in a sustainable way and in a world where water is increasingly in short supply.

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Subscription carbon offsetting platform Ecologi hits $8M total raised, includes General Catalyst

TechCrunch

startup Ecologi , which uses the funds to plant 1 million trees every 10 days in places like Africa and Latin America, as well as doing things like protecting peatlands in Indonesia. In April, Ecologi closed a seed investment round of $5.75 That’s partly the thinking behind U.K. million (£4.05 million) at a pre-money valuation of £16.5

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EO Members Share Entrepreneurial Trends for the New Year

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Maureen Brown, EO Austin, co-founder and CEO, Mosie Baby. David Fastuca, EO Melbourne, CMO and co-founder, Locomote. Kent Gregoire, US East Bridge chapter, founder and CEO, Symphony Advantage. Richard Phu, EO Sydney, founder and CEO, Outsourcing Angel. I see this as a new trend that will only grow over time.

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One social entrepreneur and activist’s mission to defend the environment and indigenous communities in Venezuela

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2017 YLAI Fellow Victor Rujano Bautista is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS), an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. By Bryce Kelly.

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Creating climate solutions with YLAI alumni: Nina Escamilla in Mexico 

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Nina Escamilla is the co-founder of Früvethy , based in Oaxaca, Mexico. However, one of our main challenges is food waste, mainly associated with the first link in the chain with primary producers, for whom the impact is ecological and economical. We’re excited to highlight 2022 YLAI Fellowship alum Nina Escamilla , from Mexico.

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Why Yelp should pay attention to not shooting itself in the face (and what ripping off Foursquare and taking big money from Elevation mean)

This is going to be BIG.

The hilarious thing is that Yelp actually thinks it can beat Foursquare at its own game—and it is a game, one that founder Dennis Crowley has been thinking about for at least 8 years. Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology. Gaming dynamics is not the core competency of Yelp, so why bother?

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. If there’s anything that hackers and founders hate, it’s an ivory tower attitude.

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