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Elon Musk’s $150 million charity spending spree

Vox

30 million to nonprofits in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas; $20 million of that goes to local district and charter schools, the other $10 million is meant to revitalize the downtown of the city of Brownsville, Texas. $5 Over the next three months, Musk committed: $100 million for Thursday’s prize. $30 Change may be afoot.

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Can we innovate our way out of the climate crisis? Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth

GeekWire

For veterans of “climate tech” or “energy transition,” the new found passion for the sector — which spans renewable energy, batteries, decarbonized transportation, green construction and low-carbon agriculture — is long overdue. “I’ve “We saw that with the internet.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

Hichert also conducts workshops on topics such as the future of transport and the future of migration, and she has trained the Joint Command of the South African National Defence Force on applying complexity thinking to decision-making. Cheryl Chung is a Lead Strategist in the Futures Division of Singapore’s Ministry of Transport.

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