What between moving snow around and playing in same, I have been neglecting this blog again. If you’re missing me, I invite you to listen to this recent interview I did with Mike Barlow, host of Paid by the Word podcast.
Sustainability
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The Girl Who’d Like To Help Women Get An ID
Just learned about Elizabeth Nyamwange from Byron, Illinois, who recently received a $10,000 grant as part of the MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge. Her invention (pictured above) is a solar-powered fingerprint scanner. Nyamwagne’s idea is to help women in emerging nations use biometrics and blockchain software to create a digital…
Purpose
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HP Gets Specific About Nixing Single-Use Plastic
We’re wrapping up what I affectionately refer to as corporate social responsibility report season, during which I am deluged on an almost daily basis with lengthy digital documents packed with updates about corporate sustainability initiatives. I almost never write about these things, despite all the well-meaning pitches requesting this. Sorry…
Aquaculture
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Noshing on a ‘Kelp Burger’
For the past 16 months or so, I’ve been caught up in intermittently trying to follow a “migraine relief” diet suggested by my ear doctor. No, I’m not suffering from debilitating headaches (thank goodness) but I do have a hearing issue that is indicative of inflammation caused by certain foods….