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Green startups and entrepreneurs take note! Planet-saving startups and entrepreneurs can apply today to win up to €500,000 and a place on a six-month bespoke accelerator programme... One of the world’s largest competitions in sustainable entrepreneurship, the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge is now open for entries. Green startups and entrepreneurs based in Britain can ap...
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Hopin is the first all-in-one live online events platform where attendees can learn, interact, and connect with people from anywhere in the world... Last year, we wrote about Spanish startup Virtway, whose platform allows people to attend virtual conferences, seminars, job fairs, etc. from the comfort of their own homes. Such events can be too far away, prohibitively expensive, or you simply can...
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The launch of the cloud-based software that could transform the fashion industry.... Digital supply chain startup, SupplyCompass, could be all set to transform the fashion industry with the release of its full-service platform that empowers fashion brands to design and deliver better products, effortlessly. The cloud-based software will digitise global supply chains and make sustainable sourcing...
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Joss Ford, the founder of Enviral, the ethical brand marketing agency shares his tips and advice on ensuring your business is more environmentally minded... We know sustainability can be confusing - from choosing the right energy supplier to changing your diet, navigating the environmental landscape can be a minefield. Yet, we all want to do the right thing when it comes to protecting the planet,...
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The lowdown on how Edinburgh-based startup Folarity is using tech to reverse the decline of our forests... Forests are the lungs of the world, absorbing huge amounts of carbon dioxide and keeping us all alive. Until we decide that a wooden toilet seat is warmer to sit on and so we go and chop them down. As well as breathing, forest cover helps with biodiversity. In the UK, a prolonged decline in...
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The lowdown on Garçon Wines and its sustainable innovations in one of the world's most traditional industries  - the wine industry!  Interesting developments in one of the world's oldest industries - wine - with the news that it is being brought right up to date thanks to London-based startup Garçon Wines. They have created a revolutionary flat wine bottle that’s mad...
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The initiative from proptech startup Desana that's aiming to reduce employees' travel distances by getting cities and organisations to work together... UK based proptech startup Desana have just launched an innovative initiative that is aiming to tackle the climate crisis by reducing commuting.Their initiative, Cityworks, aims to get cities and large organisations working together to re...
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  How do we reduce plastic in our oceans? How can we make the air we breathe cleaner? How can we grow our own food in urban cities? At one-day event Ideation NI Thon, students will get the chance to solve global and local sustainability, environmental, city and health problems.  Taking place on 13th February 2020 at the UU Magee Campus Great Hall, thanks to Major Sponsor Ulster Univer...
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Northern Irish tech startup ESTHER, a peer-2-peer giving platform allowing charitable donors to give money directly to people living in poverty in their own city, heads to New York for a 4-day fact finding mission. The Belfast-based startup won an all-expenses paid trip to New York (taking place 21st - 25th Feb 2020) thanks to their startup pitch competition win at leading 2-day tech ev...
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One Step Closer aim to empower change-makers and CSR schemes, transforming sustainability initiatives into empowering talking points. We have about 10 years to get our collective act together as a species and cut carbon emissions before we hit a point of no return. It’s all well and good for us as individuals to wash our tin cans and recycle the copious amount of wine bottles we collect in ...
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