In 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring issued a stern warn­ing against neglect­ing the immense risks of haz­ardous chem­i­cals use, espe­cial­ly in pes­ti­cides. Her book helped encour­age pol­i­cy­mak­ers to take a hard look at the wide­spread appli­ca­tion of DDT, a harm­ful pes­ti­cide, adding …
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Farm­ers who choose to use the Grad­able Car­bon car­bon stor­age plat­form will have free­dom and flex­i­bil­i­ty over when and where car­bon cred­its are stored. Grad­able Car­bon – a part of Farm­ers Busi­ness Net­work (FBN) – was launched Feb. 22. “We believe …
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The IA 50 is the first pub­licly avail­able data­base that pro­vides a gate­way into the world of impact invest­ing for investors and their finan­cial advi­sors, offer­ing an easy way to …
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Stephen and Ayesha Cur­ry offi­cial­ly launched their new Eat​.Learn​.Play Foun­da­tion, with Rev­o­lu­tion Foods as a key part­ner. At the kick­off event in down­town Oak­land today, we pro­vid­ed healthy meals for 1400 Oak­land youth and part­ners and host­ed a “taste the rain­bow” acti­va­tion as the key food part­ner for the foun­da­tion. Rev­o­lu­tion Foods is so proud of this part­ner­ship, through which …
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MEDIA RELEASE San Fran­cis­co, CA (Sep­tem­ber 11, 2018) — DBL Part­ners and its port­fo­lio com­pa­ny ZOLA Elec­tric (“ZOLA”), for­mer­ly Off Grid Elec­tric, today announced a Glob­al Cli­mate Action Sum­mit pledge …
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2018 /​​PRNewswire/​​ — A new sur­vey of more than 1,000 women with side hus­tles reveals that the top three rea­sons women choose inde­pen­dent work are: flex­i­bil­i­ty (44 per­cent), income (38 per­cent) and entre­pre­neur­ship (25 per­cent). Com­mis­sioned by BabyQuip (www​.babyquip​.com), Ruby Rib­bon (www​.rubyrib​bon​.com) and Urban­Sit­ter (www​.urban​sit​ter​.com) “Women in the Gig Econ­o­my 2018” pro­vides an in-depth look at …
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