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...Also in the portfolio is California-based KoBold Metals, backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos....
...It covers issues from waste and chemical use to human rights and labour practices....
...New ideas are showcased by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation....
...charity 5Rights Foundation....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...To build their flagpole, the Worcesters have employed the services of a number of professional firms including Trident Support, a California- and Dubai-based company that has built record-tall poles with...
...Since the mid-1980s manufacturing’s share of GDP has halved, according to analysis by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation....
...“These rules threaten the idea of a free and open internet built on a bedrock of international human rights standards,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Fransisco-based digital rights group, wrote...
...PayPal Sector: ONLINE PAYMENTS / HQ: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA At risk of being outflanked by Square, PayPal announced in November that it too would allow users to buy, sell and manage bitcoin on its service...
...able right now to reshape the economy....
...SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son was once regarded as an outsider by Japan Inc....
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
...After Jobs lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in 2011, Sir Jonathan told a staff memorial service that his old friend “constantly questioned, ‘Is this good enough? Is this right?’”...
...After 40 years of trying, we have not been able to make it work,” points out Ellen MacArthur, the yachtswoman who went on to launch an environmental group, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which has worked...
...All rights reserved....
...Klaba refers to the set-up as “Roubaix Valley” in a nod to its much larger (and sunnier) cousin in California....
...Privacy activists hope it will replicate the “California effect” in environmental protection, setting the bar for companies across the world. GDPR’s fines make it particularly potent....
...And the raw metal is worth about $1....
...The techno-optimists of California promise a further bonanza for our inner consumer, largely powered by the supercomputer smartphones in our pockets....
...In 2020 Slat hopes to anchor a 100-kilometre V-shaped barrier in the sea between California and Hawaii, positioned against the prevailing current so that the wind and waves do the work of ushering the plastic...
...Thompson Hine is now ranked as one of the top five firms in the US for client service....
...In the age of the smartphone, such convenience from an “intelligent” device feels almost a right....
...“One hundred years from now we want people to say: ‘They got this right, based on the science they had’.”...
...The US federal court for northern California is housed in a huge 1950s modernist office block in the centre of San Francisco....
...A lot comes from federal programmes that have provided the foundation for many inventions....
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