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Enlightened Leaders
Can you live a more sustainable life?
Alessandro Armillota, CEO of the sustainability app AWorld, tells us how
Food & Drink
Tasty snacks with all-natural ingredients
The chickpea-based products come in puffs and crisps in a range of flavours
Agriculture & Energy
Modular insect farms for small-scale food producers
The farms can produce protein for use in animal feed, reducing the use of other proteins like soy and fish
Health & Wellbeing
‘Living bandages’ for chronic wounds
Researchers are aiming to cure chronic wound infections with probiotic dressings
Science
A self-healing plastic biodegrades in seawater
Researchers hope the new material could replace conventional plastics in a range of products
Computing & Tech
Digitising the sense of smell
Mapping scents opens the possibility of early disease detection and more
Agriculture & Energy
Market incentives for regenerative farming in Brazil
An Earthshot Prize finalist is helping small Brazilian farmers adopt regenerative farming practices
Sustainability
Turning thin air into a carbon goldmine
'Decentralised' DAC technology enables companies to capture their own CO2 from the air for commercial use
Agriculture & Energy
Easy-to-scale tech for recording fishing catches
The apps and platform provide fully traceable seafood for consumers and equitable market access for fishers
Sustainability
Microbes treat wastewater at scale
A circular water treatment system uses microbes to break down organic matter
Sustainability
Lasers create a database of the world’s forests
One company is using LiDAR to change how we map and interact with our forests
Fashion & Beauty
Pulling diamonds from the sky
A startup is using renewable energy to turn rainwater and captured carbon into diamonds