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The lowdown on AllotMe and its garden-sharing marketplace that pairs people offering up garden space with people seeking garden space to grow their own. With the cost of living rising, climate change becoming more dire, and mental health issues becoming either more prevalent or at least more acknowledged, there has never been a better time to get into the fruitful (pun semi-intended) and stress...
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Ethical Artisan Café Chain, Canteen Collective crowdfunding to support further growth and explore sustainable event catering and B2B solutions. Canteen Collective, a fast-growing, climate positive hospitality group that offers a planet-conscious menu focusing on local provenance and seasonality, has launched a £400,000 investment round to help drive forward its ambitious growth pla...
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The lowdown on Foodsteps and its platform that enables restaurants, brands and retailers to track and reduce the footprint of food from farm to fork. Food production is responsible for 26% of global emissions, and is the single biggest factor in the loss of biodiversity. In previous articles, we have mentioned, for example, the huge 90% deforestation of Madagascar to make way for fish farming. ...
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MIWA is a Czech startup that's created an innovative smart tech solution to make waste-free shopping the new normal. Although some brands are making a little more effort these days, it can still be hard to find food that isn’t wrapped up inside ten times its weight in plastic. The convenience of plastic outweighs its environmental impact for a lot of brands, and for a lot of consumers. Bu...
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Recycling made easy thanks to Resortecs, a startup that's developed an innovative solution to enable high-quality textile recycling on an industrial scale. We have written in the past about how damaging to the environment the textile and fashion industries are, as well as numerous startups being created to combat the issue at various points along the journey, from base materials to completed, ...
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Metro Bank seeks startups and scaleups with a focus on customer experience, community banking, optimisation of systems & data and sustainability for its second innovation lab. Startups and scaleups with solutions and technologies that could innovate the banking sector - this is for you!   Metro Bank has just launched a call for applications for Metro Bank Magic Makers, its second...
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From a West Cork garage to plans for Europe-wide expansion, Period Product subscription service Riley goes from strength to strength.  When friends Aine Kilkenny, Fiona Parfrey, and Lauren Duggan launched Riley last year from a garage in Schull, West Cork they had no idea of the twelve month whirlwind that lay ahead. Riley, an eco-friendly period product subscription service, was foun...
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London-based WeAre8 is on a mission to empower us all to change the world in just two minutes a day. We are bombarded with ads all the time, on every website, on every social media platform. They rush in at us from all sides, spouting nonsense about things we couldn’t be less interested in, annoying us, perhaps even making us actively avoid whatever that brand is out of pure spite. But w...
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The lowdown on Dressipi, the startup that's using AI and machine learning to transform how fashion retailers engage with their customers. Some people love shopping, and some people hate it. Either way, when you need clothes, it would be nice if you were only looking at the kinds of things that actually interest you, rather than pushing aside dozens of items you wouldn’t look at twice to g...
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Innovative athletic footwear startup Hylo Athletics secures investment to support further development of its performance and sustainability-focused products and brand. Fab news from athletic footwear startup Hylo Athletics with the announcement that it has raised a Series A round of £2.5m. The round was led by Eka Ventures, with participation from Redrice Ventures and a range of angel inv...
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