REGENERATION & RESILIENCE -
Opening keynotes at SB’24 San Diego emphasized the need for interconnected action — from honoring Indigenous knowledge and leveraging complexity theory to leveraging business and technology to create resilience.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Ingenuity from UK and US universities has led to the development of
next-generation solutions to eliminating plastic waste — particularly, in tricky
marine environments.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
Projects will add nearly 13 GW of energy capacity to support more
manufacturing, data centers and renewable power; catalyze nearly $10B in
public-private investments and create thousands of jobs.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
The paint's cooling performance is most noticeable when a vehicle is
parked in the sun for an extended period. Keeping the interior cooler helps
reduce load to the A/C — and in electric vehicles, draw on the battery.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
The retail giant recently launched two partnerships aimed at recycling food
waste and enabling better-informed food-sourcing decisions.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Purdue University’s Institute for Digital Forestry is developing a variety of
remote-sensing solutions that can enhance the ability to determine the
probability and magnitude of wildfires at a given location.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Sustainable product design is a business imperative. Here, we outline four ways
for companies to bridge the intention-action gap and future-proof their business
and supply chains through intentional design.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Sustainable Brands Tokyo's Shigeki Aoki talks with Mazda President and CEO Masahiro Moro about how the 104-year-old auto manufacturer’s mission and strategies center around 'the joy of driving.'
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Colossal Biosciences says its work to revive keystone species such as the
mammoth could be a boon for ecological restoration and biodiversity
preservation, but conservationists say it could become a moral and ethical
quagmire.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS -
Good-Loop’s Good-Media Academy outlines how the ad
industry impacts climate change and what advertisers can do to mitigate it.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
While the plant-based protein industry deals with growing pains, cultivated
meats — and even a combination of the two — are waiting in the wings to help
future-proof our food system.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
More conscientious catch methods and the rise of cultivated seafood could help
take the pressure off of overfished marine ecosystems — whose health is critical
for planetary health.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
A €30M portfolio in Europe and a $50M fund in the US put much-needed capital behind cultivating regenerative-ag value chains, while a partnership with NatureMetrics supports
Unilever's work to make farming its ingredients climate resilient.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
ClimateCrop is boosting starch metabolism in plants through non-GMO gene
editing — enhancing crop resilience to climate change, increasing yields, and
offering a sustainable solution to future farming challenges.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
There is immense potential for sustainable innovation in the ever-growing space
economy — in ways that could bring the industry’s own impacts, and an infinite
source of solar power, back down to Earth.
MATERIALS & PACKAGING -
The brand has partnered with Samsara Eco to extract nylon 6,6 from end-of-life textiles, demonstrating the potential to create a fully circular ecosystem for apparel.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY -
Regenerative sustainability provides a pragmatic foundation to demonstrate
caregiving and relationality to people and planet. It shouldn’t be a ‘battle
against climate change;’ it should be a ‘relationship we’re working to heal.’
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
We spoke with Damian Chan, EVP of the Singapore Economic Development Board, to learn more about how it is driving sustainability and the energy transition in the island nation.