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Blockchain is revolutionizing your ability to make environmentally friendly purchases

This article first appeared on Ensia and was written by Catherine Early. Follow her on Twitter here: @cat_early76 How environmentally friendly is the coffee you drank this morning? The clothes you’re wearing? What are the social impacts of the chair you’re sitting on? Perhaps you’ve tried to find the…

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Food for Thought: Using Blockchain Technology to End World Hunger

When 193 countries came together to sign seventeen sustainable development goals, there was a common recognition of our vulnerability and that of the planet on which we live. While the Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 appear to critics as impractically ambitious, there is one thing that remains certain: we…

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Ending Poverty Through Financial Inclusion, One Block At A Time

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted what was hailed as “the people’s agenda” by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a common agenda “to end poverty in all its forms– an agenda for the planet, our common home.” Developed and developing countries alike agreed to seventeen ambitious but imperative…

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