The ultimate promise of technology is to be able to do more — much more — with less. And yet despite 100 years of mind-blowing tech revolutions, this promise has spectacularly failed to materialise.
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Founders, do you have an Earth Overshoot plan?
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Tessa Clarke is cofounder and CEO of OLIO

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