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AI and sustainability, Climate holiday-reads, and all the best news from this week

Sustainability news from around the globe for startups and entrepreneurs 🗞

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Jul 21, 2023
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Top global news

  • ‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come

  • Eating less meat 'like taking 8m cars off road'

  • Rampant heatwaves threaten food security of entire planet, scientists warn

  • Drones are showing us sharks like never before

  • Climate change turns up the heat on supply chains


AI and Sustainability

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  • Crowdsourcing AI Solutions for Climate Change: IAEA, ITU, FAO, UNESCO and the World Bank Launch AI for Good Contest for Start-ups

  • The Green Dilemma: Can AI Fulfil Its Potential Without Harming the Environment?

  • How to Make Generative AI Greener

  • Japan's Green IT: A Game Changer In Environmental Sustainability

  • The Role Of AI In Creating A More Sustainable Food System

  • The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation

  • How can AI reduce workplace carbon emissions?

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Startups, Business, and Sustainability

From back, a tanned model flexes her biceps wearing hot pink fascia tank and underwear from The Big Favorite.
  • Better Barbiecore? Brands Weigh Conflicting Sustainability Messages

  • Seven sustainability trends that will reign in 2023

  • Weighing the future of fashion’s alternative materials, post-Mylo

  • The truth hurts: how lack of female funding alters the startup landscape

  • Investors baffled by watering-down of EU sustainable reporting plan

  • Sustainability, and Other Tall Tales

  • How startups are looking to create long-term value by integrating ESG

  • Majority of business leaders optimistic about meeting sustainability disclosure requirements

  • Sustainable finance: funding options for eco-friendly small businesses

From our WONDR community this week…

Socko Launches The Montys: The UK's First 100% Recycled Socks

London, UK - Socko, a female-founded sustainable sock brand based in the UK, has launched a new range of socks that are 100% recycled and made in the UK. The Montys collection is the UK's first 100% recycled socks and features a unisex design, plastic-free packaging, and comes in three different sizes and colours.


The Museum of Climate Hope is opening in Oxford University Libraries but is also available online here

Adapting to the Anthropocene

  • Take a journey through time with the Museum of Climate Hope trail

  • I used to ride private planes. Now I’d rather get arrested protesting them

  • How forests can become more effective ‘natural climate solutions’

  • We must stop climate solutions from killing biodiversity

  • Kelp and seaweed forests are overlooked climate change solutions, new research reveals

  • As heat records break, the climate movement has the right answers – but the words are all wrong

  • How nature can help cities fend off record-smashing heat

  • Introducing the Climate Solutions Explorer


Climate Crisis and the Environment

A man cools off in a fountain in Turin, Italy, during the Cerberus heatwave on Saturday (EPA)
  • Extreme weather: the climate crisis in four charts

  • World will miss 1.5C warming limit - top UK expert

  • ’We can’t escape’: the climate crisis is driving up cost of living in the US west

  • Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast

  • Let’s hear from climate deniers as they holiday in 48c

  • Chicago: Underground climate change is 'deforming' land under buildings and 'things are sinking', says study

  • Why Is Europe’s Latest Heat Wave Called Cerberus? It’s Complicated


Climate Holiday Reads

Recent must-reads for anyone interested in climate change.
  • Three New Books on Climate Change That Won’t Bum You Out

  • ‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis

  • Books to help you stay inspired to fight climate change

  • Extreme Heat Is Here to Stay. Why Are We Not More Afraid? (Review of The Heat Will Kill You First)

Thanks for reading! Don’t forget to share with your friends or leave a comment. See you next week 👋

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