NKG and Coffee Coalition for Racial Equity Launch Green Coffee Specialist Program

“Black and Brown individuals are the foundation on which the industry stands, bursting with underutilized ideas and passions yet to be realized,” Phyllis Johnson, founding director of CCRE, said in an announcement of the program launch today. Johnson is part of a 15-member CCRE board of directors working to address racial equity within the coffee […]

Biden’s Green Book Includes Retroactive Capital Gains Tax Increase

Of particular interest to investors is the administration’s proposal to raise the tax on long-term capital gains from its current maximum rate of 23.8 percent to a new rate of 40.8 percent for certain higher-income taxpayers: those with adjusted gross income exceeding $1 million if married filing jointly and exceeding $500,000 if married filing separately […]

An unusual symbiosis of a ciliate, green alga, and purple bacterium

In their article ‘A microbial eukaryote with a unique combination of purple bacteria and green algae as endosymbionts’ published in Science Advances, the researchers report the new findings and explain how the oxygen-sensitive purple bacterium lives together with the oxygenic green alga in the ciliate host. Dr Martin Kreutz, an amateur microscopist and friend of […]

Garanti BBVA to offer green loans to real estate developers

Within a sustainable finance framework, BBVA continues to provide innovative solutions to support Turkey’s fight against climate change. The executive recalled that itis currently mandatory to receive an energy efficiency certificate for building construction and in this case type A or B have the most sustainable ecological characteristics. He also highlighted the importance they give […]