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Redesigning the Food System for Resilience: Lessons from the Field
Redesigning the Food System for Resilience: Lessons from the Field

REGENERATION & RESILIENCE - Another central thread throughout SB’24 San Diego highlighted the efforts underway by startup innovators, multinational brands and NGOs to redesign our food system for resilience.

Meet the ‘Angel’ Helping Hollywood End Its Wasteful Ways
Meet the ‘Angel’ Helping Hollywood End Its Wasteful Ways

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - Earth Angel helps productions of all sizes reduce their footprint through education, resource management and carbon tracking — with the goal of harnessing the cultural influence of the entertainment industry to scale these efforts.

Helios: An Out-of-This-World Solution for Decarbonizing Steelmaking
Helios: An Out-of-This-World Solution for Decarbonizing Steelmaking

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY - Inspired by work on lunar resource extraction, the Helios Cycle creates zero direct emissions and uses 30% less energy than traditional methods of extracting iron — offering transformational potential for the heavy-emitting steel industry.

These Startups Are Mycoremediating Impacts of the Building Industry
These Startups Are Mycoremediating Impacts of the Building Industry

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - Mycocycle and Mogu are harnessing mycelium to transform industrial waste into resilient, circular materials for the construction sector.

BMW, Volkswagen Eyeing Plant-Based Future for Car Interiors
BMW, Volkswagen Eyeing Plant-Based Future for Car Interiors

MATERIALS & PACKAGING - The auto giants are collaborating with makers of hemp- and flax-based materials that reduce weight and manufacturing emissions and enhance recyclability.

Unilever Partners to Scale Circular Packaging Solutions in Global South
Unilever Partners to Scale Circular Packaging Solutions in Global South

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - In partnership with EY and USAID, the CIRCLE Alliance collaborative model of enterprise acceleration will help scale new and existing solutions for packaging circularity in areas where plastic pollution is especially severe.

Mars Seeks Innovators to Reduce the Footprint of Pet Food
Mars Seeks Innovators to Reduce the Footprint of Pet Food

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY - The Next-Generation Pet Food Program aims to scale sustainable innovations for the pet food value chain, with a focus on sustainable proteins and fats.

This Startup Floats a Biomimetic Solution to Microplastic Pollution
This Startup Floats a Biomimetic Solution to Microplastic Pollution

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY - PolyGone Systems has developed the world's first portable, affordable, low-maintenance microplastic collection device — aiming to help restore the health of waterways and marine life worldwide.

Coca-Cola Adds Wastewater-to-Energy Tech to Circular Manufacturing Toolbox
Coca-Cola Adds Wastewater-to-Energy Tech to Circular Manufacturing Toolbox

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY - Pipeline Organics’ technology will convert sugar-rich wastewater into clean, cost-effective renewable electricity to help power CCEP’s food and drink manufacturing operations.

erthos: Giving the Plastics Industry an AI-Driven, Biobased Upgrade
erthos: Giving the Plastics Industry an AI-Driven, Biobased Upgrade

MATERIALS & PACKAGING - The Toronto-based startup creates high-performance biomaterials that seamlessly integrate into manufacturing systems and supply chains five times faster than industry standard — eliminating a barrier to widespread adoption.

How High-Integrity Credit Projects Deliver Impacts Beyond Carbon
How High-Integrity Credit Projects Deliver Impacts Beyond Carbon

ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE - How can buyers and sellers of carbon credits ensure the projects they choose will have the desired impacts and climate outcomes?

Sustainable Sailing Puts Its Sail-Recycling Process to Sweet, New Use
Sustainable Sailing Puts Its Sail-Recycling Process to Sweet, New Use

MATERIALS & PACKAGING - The UK startup is partnering with the University of Edinburgh to use waste sails in the creation of high-value chemicals used in everyday products — even, potentially, food ingredients.

First, Food – Now, Fashion and Furniture: More Innovations in Circular Materials
First, Food – Now, Fashion and Furniture: More Innovations in Circular Materials

MATERIALS & PACKAGING - These two women-owned startups are repurposing waste streams from food manufacturing into striking interior finishes and “leather” handbags and accessories.

Report: Investors Must Shift Priorities to Effectively Tackle Plastic Pollution
Report: Investors Must Shift Priorities to Effectively Tackle Plastic Pollution

FINANCE & INVESTMENT - The Circulate Initiative’s latest Plastics Circularity Investment Tracker reveals investment amounts not only fall short of financing needs across the plastic lifecycle, too many are focused on reactive — vs proactive — solutions.

Tech Partnerships Helping Walmart Optimize Food Value Chain
Tech Partnerships Helping Walmart Optimize Food Value Chain

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - The retail giant recently launched two partnerships aimed at recycling food waste and enabling better-informed food-sourcing decisions.

Arbor Day Impact Fund: A New Engine for Innovation in the Climate Fight
Arbor Day Impact Fund: A New Engine for Innovation in the Climate Fight

FINANCE & INVESTMENT - By fostering connections between startups and established environmental leaders, we can further amplify the effectiveness of each innovation and create waves of impact.

EcoSet: Redirecting Film-Industry Waste for Creative Reuse
EcoSet: Redirecting Film-Industry Waste for Creative Reuse

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - The film industry is one of the largest producers of unnecessary waste in the world. Avoiding or repurposing that waste has become its own industry within entertainment, and circular service providers such as EcoSet are leading the charge.

This DTC Marketplace Fosters Fairer Trade for Smallholder Food Producers
This DTC Marketplace Fosters Fairer Trade for Smallholder Food Producers

SUPPLY CHAIN - R-ainbow connects small food producers around the world with nearby buyers in real time — reducing logistical expenses and emissions, and boosting prices for farmers and transparency and trust within the food supply chain.

Foodtech Innovators Spill the Beans on Climate-Proofing Coffee
Foodtech Innovators Spill the Beans on Climate-Proofing Coffee

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY - These two startups are fundamentally changing how coffee is produced — by eliminating the need for beans altogether, and repurposing food waste along the way.

This Nepalese B Corp Illustrates a Holistic Model for Sustainable Development
This Nepalese B Corp Illustrates a Holistic Model for Sustainable Development

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY - Shah Hemp Innoventures turns typically wasted ‘weeds’ into a resource for literally building a more sustainable, equitable economy.