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Spotify’s new ‘Enhance’ feature will spruce up your playlists with recommended songs

The Verge

Enhance-recommended songs will be marked with a bright green sparkles icon to indicate that they weren’t part of your original list and can be added permanently by tapping the plus button that appears next to the song. Spotify’s algorithm is here to spice up your playlists with new songs.

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Can saving trees really turn bitcoin green?

TechCrunch

Bitcoin’s thirst for power has grown many times over, recently topping the electricity usage of several countries , including Denmark and Chile, per Cambridge University estimates.

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

TechCrunch

million seed funding round led by Giant Ventures , along with the Danish government’s Danish Green Future Fund. Agriculture has deep roots in Denmark, a historically proud farming nation, which is why the company was born here, but we are scaling across Europe and intend to expand globally.”

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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. Now in its 50 th year, the Greenpeace movement has spread across the globe, becoming the world’s largest independent environmental organisation. .

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

TechCrunch

Lots and lots of people to come in, eager and willing to learn new stuff, and take up green retrofitting jobs. And this is where a UK edtech startup founded last year, called greenworkx , is angling to step in — with a new spot of supportive construction: A digital pathway designed to boost the flow of skilled workers into green jobs.

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Making Sense of the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: A Nonprofit Perspective

Tech Soup

World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark right now. Tags: Green Office GreenTech. They're debating climate change agreements and working to create a new set of global policies to help reduce climate change and its many negative impacts.

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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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