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On a morning trip around Kanpur, India in 2015, Phool founder Ankit Agarwal noticed a plethora of discarded flowers floating in the Ganges river. These flowers had largely been used by worshippers and temples and couldn't be thrown out in a traditional way, so the river was their go-to. but

Use-by, sell-by, best-by, best-before... the list of dates printing on food items goes on and on. Each one is more confusing than the last and leads to a massive amount of food waste. But the major supermarket chain Morrisons is eliminated use-by dates on most of their milk jugs and

You may have heard of Y Combinator - one of the biggest and most famous startup accelerators in the world. Amongst the impressive portfolio of startups they helped catapult to success (Airbnb, DropBox, Reddit, Twitch, and many more) come over 100 climate tech startups. Collectively, these are now worth over

* Zero Motorcycles, a company working on electric motorbikes has just closed a succesful funding round raising $107 million. * This brings their total capital raised to over $500 million. * They've already sold over 20,000 vehicles that have driven 165,000,000 miles on and off roading. read the full release

* In the US, Canada, and Europe, Uber has set a goal to fully electrify their fleet by 2030. * In this dramatic announcement, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi explains that those without electric cars won't be able to continue giving rides once this policy is implemented. * They are committing $800 million to