As my colleague Ryan Lawler wrote a few months ago at the firm's official launch, Obvious Ventures is focusing on funding startups across three main themes: "sustainable systems" such as technologies for conserving and maximizing natural resources; "people power" such as personal development and productivity software; and "healthy living" such as consumer-oriented fitness and well-being apps.
What's more, Mass Studies' design maximizes natural resources, keeping in mind the very relevant concern for environmental preservation.
Only truly sustainable farming maximizes on-farm, natural resources, cuts toxic damage to people and the environment, and reduces the overall degradation of soils and water while producing better food and livelihoods for the people involved.
Intensive researches have been conducted to intensify green building designs by using alternative sustainable construction technologies and operation approaches in order to reduce energy use, and at the same time, to maximize the utility of natural resources.
Part of this work is about locating and maximizing the return on natural resources, but it's also about making sure the equipment runs and runs well, with models that predict wear and maintenance schedules, which could stop major malfunctions before they ever occur.
Hence, subsistence diversity was a prerequisite and environmental opportunism (i.e. maximizing the use of all available natural resources) the obligatory means of ensuring survival.
Environmental impact assessment methods are appropriate tools to address the choice of technologies and management practices to minimize negative effects of agricultural development, while maximizing productive efficiency, sound usage of natural resources, conservation of ecological assets and equitable access to wealth generation means.
Governments, private industry, even consumers are looking to maximize the sustainable benefit countries derive from their natural resources, turning them into vehicles for economic development, growth and diversification in developing countries.
The results can provide a guidance to maximize C&D waste and waste glass recycling, resourceful treatment of wastes and conserve natural resources.
