In 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, demanding the life of over 1100 individuals and leaving hundreds injured. In 2019, the Brumadinho mineral waste dam in Brazil fell apart, leading to the death of hundreds of people. In India, around 40 workers were killed in a fire sweeping through a bag factory in the same year. These examples
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On an unusually sunny day in Amsterdam, I sat across Dennise Yeh, a Taiwanese-born, internationally-bred businesswoman. Dennise is currently the Chief Growth Officer at a coffee consultancy start-up that provides training to stakeholders throughout the coffee value chain, in addition to having their own line of sustainable and innovative coffee. She has previously worked with
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Bitcoin has long held the status of number one cryptocurrency. Since its launch in 2009, individual investors and big corporations alike have stocked up on the digital token. However, the world has since awoken to the sustainability and energy consumption issues around the mining and trading process. Lately, even Elon Musk, one of the most
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In recent years, consumer privacy and antitrust have emerged as issues with controversial and dualistic support. In light of the antitrust investigations by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Big Tech companies Google and Facebook for allegedly abusing their monopoly power, many argue that little progress has been made on the issue of privacy protection.
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