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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

This gives me a bit of hope when it comes to butterfly conservation. Because they have such short generation times, even small conservation steps can make a big difference and we can see populations bounce back. Photo: Chris Light , CC BY-SA] Supporting policies that benefit conservation can also help.

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John Deere scolded for its inability to comply with GPL software license

TechSpot

John Deere has been recently called out for its inability to properly handle open-source software according to the GPL license. Read Entire Article

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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

You can take care of local parks, conservation areas, community gardens, and more. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Love gardening? Halvorsen is an associate professor of social work at Washington University in St. Read the original article.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

TechCrunch

Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. In that way, ocean conservation tech mirrors climate tech, which has been growing so fast that some have called it “recession-proof.” That doesn’t mean that investors aren’t bullish, though.

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How The Nature Conservancy’s Work in the Cumberland Forest Supports Jobs & Climate Mitigation

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By: Andrew Tingley, Director of Communications at The Nature Conservancy. At The Nature Conservancy , one of the world’s largest environmental nonprofits, we have examined a huge range of nature’s benefits throughout our 70-year history. When you think about nature, what comes to mind? © Cameron Davidson; May 2019.

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??Forests are a multitrillion-dollar asset. Vibrant Planet bets SaaS can save them

TechCrunch

And while Vibrant Planet is definitely a software play — from its cloud focus to its per-seat licenses, it’s SaaS through and through — its end goal is different from many others. Climate tech, while relatively new, has settled into two camps: hardware and software.

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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

The nonprofit Software Freedom Conservancy among others has criticized GitHub and OpenAI for using public source code, not all of which is under a permissive license, to train and monetize Codex. For their parts, GitHub and OpenAI continue to assert that Codex and Copilot don’t run afoul of any license terms.