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Facebook is trying to stop the sale of Amazon rainforest land on its Marketplace

The Verge

Photo by Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images. The plots were frequently sold without an official land title designating ownership, driven by the deforestation of the Amazon caused by the Brazilian cattle industry, the BBC found. Did you know you can sell land on Facebook Marketplace? Neither did I.

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The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels

TechCrunch

The company’s founders are on a mission to make the paper industry more sustainable, according to co-founder Ryan Fritsch, and they’re looking to do it one roll at a time. For instance, the logging industry in Canada degrades over a million acres of its climate-critical forest, in part to feed U.S. Demand from the U.S.

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Facebook plans to expand its news tab beyond the US

The Verge

Facebook is planning to expand its dedicated news section and says it is “considering” the UK, Germany, France, India, and Brazil as possible recipients, it announced Tuesday. Its News Feed algorithm and ad business have proven devastating for the industry, particularly for local news publishers.

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Can saving trees really turn bitcoin green?

TechCrunch

Instead, Bitso is working with Moss.Earth, a São Paulo, Brazil-based carbon offsets company, to indirectly mitigate the emissions associated with transacting bitcoin and Ethereum-based tokens via its platform. The exchange plans to do so by buying tokenized “credits from conservation projects in the Amazon Forest in Brazil.”.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

Connection Cafe

It’s always helpful to get inspiration and learn from other organizations in your industry. We received votes from all over the world including Iceland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Poland, Chile, England, Brazil and Australia, with the most international votes coming from the United States. Draco won, closely followed by Mo, again!

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

That same trend can be seen in all kinds of industries, particularly in food. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil.

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

Kaplan had no experience in the healthcare industry. Kaplan went on to work in any lucrative, quasi-legal industry that would have him, from online sports betting to cryptocurrency. On a whim, he went to Brazil and started importing illegal CBD for kids with epilepsy and other conditions. Why don’t we sell some PPE?”.