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The kayak’s precise origin story is murky, but sources credit various Indigenous groups of the far north — modern-day Alaska, Greenland and Siberia — with inventing the boat for hunting and fishing.

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Rob Thompson wants to teach big business a thing or two about the circular economy. Thompson runs a startup that collects discarded plastic from the ocean, along with used fishing nets from commercial ...