Source: eyeonsunvalley.com Published: July 11, 2016 STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK Paul Hawken invoked Matt Damon—astronaut Matt Damon from “The Martian”–as he began the conversation on climate change. “It’s space. It doesn’t cooperate,” he quoted The Martian. “I...
Source: km.kongsberg.com Published: April 5, 2016 The Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Fisheries has approved Norway’s first development concession enabling Ocean Farming AS, supported by Kongsberg Maritime AS, to build the world’s first automated...
Source: grist.org Published: February 26, 2016 Bren Smith. Ron Gautreau By Bren Smith I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jail. I’m an epileptic. I’m asthmatic. I don’t even know how to...
Source: popsci.com Published: December 5, 2016 By Jeremy Deaton Ocean-bound entrepreneur envisions ecological restoration and economic revival. Click here to watch “What is 3D Farming?”: https://youtu.be/NtBaX5oiUSA Worldwide, farmland consumes an area roughly...
Source: impactalpha.com Published: January 13, 2016 NOTE: Requires an Impact Alpha membership to view Marina Leytes R. Buckminster Fuller was a founding father of systems thinking. You can look it up. And you can look up an index of ideas that honor such thinking in...
Source: washingtonpost.com Published: July 4, 2017 Drilling at a marine structure in Portus Cosanus, Tuscany, in 2003. (J.P. Oleson) By Ben Guarino Two thousand years ago, Roman builders constructed vast sea walls and harbor piers. The concrete they used outlasted the...
Source: sciencedaily.com Published: September 26, 2016 Finger millet field. Source: University of Guelph Summary: Plant scientists have shown for the first time how an ancient crop teams up with a beneficial microbe to protect against a devastating fungal infection, a...
Source: boston.com Published: July 29, 2016 Making food more sustainable and helping farmers turn a profit are two of Indigo’s main goals. –Reuters Indigo is using microbes to make super healthy, hardy crops. By Justine Hofherr, Staff Writer Tyler McClendon,...
Source: popsci.com Published: July 5, 2017 The ocean didn’t break it down— it only made it stronger. A microscopic image of concrete. C-A-S-H stands for the calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate material that forms when volcanic ash, lime, and seawater mix. The...
