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Who’s profiting from the Bored Ape digital land sale?

TechCrunch

Crypto Bahamas signals stronger ties between old and new worlds of finance. Decrypt wrote that “OpenSea set a new one-day record for Ethereum NFT trading on Sunday with $476 million,” with the publication adding that “much” of the sum came from Otherdeed activity.

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Flying taxi startup Lilium will build a hub for its electric aircraft in Florida

The Verge

It will work with the primary real estate developer in the area, Bahamas-based Tavistock Development Company, on the development and construction of the vertiport. Lilium says it will construct a $25 million “vertiport” in Lake Nona, a planned community of about 65,000 people within the Orlando city limits.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. million in disaster-related projects. . In 2019, millions of people around the world were affected by disasters and humanitarian crises. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

But if we want to try to get more specific, there are projections that are backed by science. One analysis projects that as early as 2030, Iowa could see corn production plummet 25% due to climate change, Minnesotas soybean yield could drop as much as 19%, and wheat production in Kansas could fall 9%. Were widening the goal posts.

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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

TechCrunch

At the time, the operation was both smaller and under siege by Hurricane Dorian, which wiped out the team’s coral farm in the Bahamas — and then, of course, the pandemic arrived just in time to spoil the team’s 2020 plans along with everyone else’s. In the Accelerator over the Sea. Image Credits: Coral Vita.

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Climate Warming and Palo Alto -> Miradi and the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s why we, in conjunction with the Conservation Measures Partnership, have developed Miradi , our groundbreaking software application for running biodiversity and conservation projects. Miradi (Miradi 3.0 is now available for download) allows environmentalists to figure out which environmental strategies actually work.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

By December 12, Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas. In late June, Modsy , on online interior design services startup, abruptly ceased offering design services , laid off its designers and left customers with unfinished renovations and project orders in process. The next day, the U.S.

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