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Agreena, a regenerative farming carbon market, raises $4.7M seed from Giant Ventures

TechCrunch

Plus, regenerative farming plays into the drift away from older government subsidy regimes, which are switching to focusing on the environment and CO2 emission, and away from industrial farming. million seed funding round led by Giant Ventures , along with the Danish government’s Danish Green Future Fund.

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Greenpeace Nordic Fights to Win the World a Better Future

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. As the crisis deepens, Greenpeace Nordic continues to work tirelessly for nature and the environment to protect the planet’s future. . With strength in numbers, collaboration is key.

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Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030

The Verge

Starting today, Uber is launching its “Uber Green” surcharge in 15 cities in the US and Canada. A recent report from European research and campaign group Transport and Environment shows a correlation between the surge in the number of ride-share drivers in major European cities and increasing levels of air pollution. extra per ride.

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UK’s greenworkx takes aim at the domestic retrofit skills challenge

TechCrunch

The goal is to re-make our built environment to be energy efficient and drive down carbon emissions ASAP. Lots and lots of people to come in, eager and willing to learn new stuff, and take up green retrofitting jobs. So we really need lots and lots more skilled tradespeople — fast. So it’s a job discovery problem.

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. Anyway, there was a navigational interface that allowed us to project an environment and actually walk through it.

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

18 European countries have already signed a non-binding pledge saying that they plan to contribute to this EIF’s fund of funds — Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. More countries should join the list soon.

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark. Finally, if visitors are saving their activities in competitive environments like games, being able to see your score relative to others--either in your party or overall--is incredibly engaging.