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Bill Gates answered questions relating to the climate, the future, and his billion-dollar fortune during an ask-me-anything Reddit session on January 11, 2023. Bill Gates was asked his opinion on the climate and plant-based diets during his annual Reddit AMA. Gates said he backed several fake meat companies, despite predicting many people won’t opt to be vegan. "I think eventually these products will be very good even though their share is small today," Gates said. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates weighed in on the future of meat alternatives during his annual Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. The 67-year-old billionaire fielded questions about a variety of topics from Redditors, including the climate and veganism, prompting Gate to share his optimism about plant-based meats. "There are companies […]

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A destroyed building purportedly used to house Russian soldiers in Makiivka on January 10. Ukraine has launched deadly long-range strikes against Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Some of those strikes and other attacks have reportedly been enabled by Russian cell phone use. Those cases illustrate the growing use of cell phones as sensors on the battlefield. Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . On December 31, the Ukrainian military launched a precision strike against a makeshift Russian barracks in the town of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, the Ukrainians were able to pinpoin t the makeshift barracks using cellular data. Russian reservists based there had turned on their cell phones, allowing Ukrainian military intelligence to pick up their location and pass the targeting data up the chain of command, according to the ministry. Soon […]

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BENSALEM, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — "I really believe in bringing especially young girls but even just young kids into the science and STEM world," said Keira Seidman. "And I feel like I was able to start young, but a lot of kids don’t really have any activities to do." Keira, 16, and her sister, Sophia, 14, first fell in love with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math when they attended a Young Innovator’s Fair. Their parents fostered their interests by gearing their holiday gifts towards robotics kits and eventually a 3D printer. Printing and making crafts started as a hobby, but the girls soon learned they could start their own business with it. Adding "Art" into the acronym, they created STEAMcraft out of an office space in their house. "After I make the nameplate, my sister can send it to the 3D printer, so that way, it knows how to print it layer by layer," said Sophia. "So that way, we both do the things that we do best when manufacturing our products." STEAMcraft specializes in 3D printing nameplates and other small trinkets. But most of their sales come from DIY craft kits designed for kids to create their own miniature […]

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Multimillion dollar payments from LIV Golf, Reportedly 93% owned by MBS-Controlled Fund, to Trump Golf Resorts Raise Serious Questions about Conflict of Interest, Threats to National Security (January 15, 2023 – New York): The U.S. Department of Justice and Congress should investigate the disturbing facts and circumstances surrounding payments by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF), via its wholly-owned LIV Golf company, to businesses owned by former President Donald Trump, said Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). On January 13, 2023, Elliot Peters, a name partner at Keker , a prominent San Francisco law firm, who is lead counsel to the PGA in the players’ lawsuit, inadvertently revealed in a court proceeding that PIF owns 93% of LIV Golf, pays for all of its events, and holds all of the entity’s financial risk. PIF’s chairman is Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS), who has absolute and final decision-making control over the fund. LIV Golf is a newly established golf tournament franchise that has emerged as a rival to PGA Golf. It has paid Trump-owned golf resorts unknown millions of dollars to hold its events there, and former President Trump has publicly championed the new league, made […]

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The Big Picture Crowdsource Innovation More awareness is needed about the impending threat of biodiversity loss. Nature loss has caused a 69% decline in wildlife populations in just the last 50 years. Collective action from global leaders is required to mitigate the threats of biodiversity – and- nature loss. Globally, we are venturing into uncharted territory regarding climate change. The planning phase of critically assessing and defining how our businesses contribute to environmental damage is behind us, and now is the time to take action. According to World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022 , climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss are the top three environmental global threats over the next decade. Many companies recognize the need for climate action and experience the impacts of extreme weather. However, there’s a lack of awareness and understanding about biodiversity loss, which is defined as species extinction and/ or reduction and results in irreversible consequences for the environment, humankind and economic activity and a permanent destruction of natural capital. The responsibility of real climate action primarily falls on the shoulders of governments and businesses, including enforcing, enacting, or investing in effective climate-change adaptation and mitigation measures. We must rally our […]

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I asked the artificial-intelligence tool ChatGPT to help me start a business. The chatbot’s answers were generic and lacked important details. But when I asked more specific questions, it catered its responses to the type of business. Sign up for our weekday newsletter, packed with original analysis, news, and trends — delivered right to your inbox. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Everyone’s asking ChatGPT to do something for them — which is no surprise, since artificial intelligence is expected to be a game changer for business in 2023. If you’re unfamiliar with the tool, imagine typing a question into Google’s search bar, but rather than sending you to a highlighted answer followed by pages of search results, it talks back in a private chat window. It uses stored information from books, articles, and websites to give you an answer, in complete sentences and paragraphs. ChatGPT, which is free to use, launched in November as […]

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An increasing number of founders are launching brands fully online. Many Americans are looking for easy and entrepreneurial ways to make money . Some are creating online businesses, which often have lower startup costs than brick-and-mortars. Here are five of the easiest types to start, including content creation, coaching, and marketing. Suss out the need for your potential online business Conduct market and consumer research to determine what’s needed. It’s important for aspiring founders to ensure that the product or service is needed in the marketplace, said Cynthia Franklin, an entrepreneurship professor at New York University. When deciding what type of business to start, "looking at where societal forces are heading and seeing if you can get ahead of the trend" is a good start, she said. "Start with scratching your own itch," Franklin suggests for aspiring online business owners. "Whatever you do, find something you care about because you’re going to need to put a lot of time and energy into making it succeed." Here are 5 of the easiest online businesses to start in 2023. 1. Content creation and social-media management Lauren Mabra and Lauren Ferry founded the social-media content agency Lauren Labeled. Content creation and social-media […]

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VINELAND — Good demand for outdoors-use equipment, big and small, is powering a relocation of Weaver’s Equipment. The family owned business anticipates starting construction this year on a replacement store at 3049 South Delsea Drive, less than 3 miles from its current location at 278 South Delsea drive. “The biggest reason for our move is the growth of our business,” owner Jaron Weaver said. "We have simply outgrown our current location. We are grateful to God and our customers for this and are looking forward to having more space to be able to better serve our community.” The project got its city planning approval at a hearing Wednesday night. The site is about 5.9 acres, adjacent to Tractor Supply, near Butler Avenue. The new operation will involve a 13,528-square-foot main building, which is several times larger than Weaver’s current one, as well as a 4,800-square-foot storage building. A specialized garage for repair work is part of the main structure, company attorney Michael Gruccio told the Planning Board. Project engineer William Parkhill said the undertaking benefits from an existing stormwater management basin built at the new site more than a decade ago, although a supplemental basin will be installed to […]

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The World Economic Forum Chief Economists Outlook, January 2023 finds that growth prospects remain anaemic and the risk of a global recession is high. The IMF expects around a third of the global economy to enter a recession in 2023 and it has cut its forecast of global GDP for the year to 2.7%. We ask three chief economists how business leaders can best prepare their organizations to weather the economic storms ahead. Almost two-thirds of economists surveyed by the World Economic Forum expect there will be a recession in 2023. So what does that mean for businesses? In a world of ‘polycrisis’, how can companies pivot to resilience, while staying profitable and sustainable? These are some the questions that will be discussed during the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos – and in the months ahead. A survey of leading economists for the Forum’s latest Chief Economists Outlook gauged views about some of the likely headwinds that businesses are going to face in 2023 – as well as the most effective responses to these headwinds and sources of optimism. It finds that the outlook for the global economy is gloomy, with almost one in five respondents now considering a […]

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Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. That is largely due to the 80-year-old hotel chain’s tight partnership with Amazon Web Services, says Choice CIO Brian Kirkland, who claims his company is enjoying the cost benefits and energy efficiencies of the cloud while exploiting many of 225 related services AWS offers such as analytics and AI to keep advancing on its digital reservations and pricing platform. [ Stay on budget with these 6 cloud cost management tips , learn the 5 fundamentals of effective cloud management , and beware hidden cloud migration gotchas . ] Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. The cloud platform helped Choice pivot quickly during the pandemic, enabling it to scale on demand as hotel traffic went down. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. More importantly, perhaps, pushing all in on the cloud has […]

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