Halophytes: How To Solve The Land, Water, Food, Energy & Climate Emergency While Generating Wealth

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Sustainability News, Nature/Biomimicry, Halophytes, Latest Headlines

“Ethical Markets is happy to see our colleague, Dennis Bushnell, presenting the case for expanding our food supply from its perilous dependence on the planet’s 3% of fresh water, by incorporating all the nutritious halophyte foods… still the best way to capture ambient CO2 and stay within the IPCC window! …

RESHAPE GLOBAL FINANCE TO SUPPORT INEVITABLE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News, Nature/Biomimicry, Transforming Finance, Latest Headlines

“Ethical Markets welcomes this progression of policy at Finance for Biodiversity, which conforms with our own research on the importance on transforming the unhealthy, polluting global food system in our Green Transition Scoreboard ® reports “Capturing CO2 While Improving Human Nutrition and Health” (2018) and “Transitioning to Science-Based Investing” (2019-2020). …

Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Nature/Biomimicry, Halophytes

  Headlines Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn Exclusive / Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn Exclusive: IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet   The A-Team / April Ross and Alix Klineman return US to sand-court glory   Curtis …

Kelp news just gets better

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry, Halophytes

    Last you heard from us, we had recently arrived in Australia and we’re still getting our footing. As some of you know, the housing market here is a bit constrained right now and we now have a home for another 6 months.  With that out of the way, and …

Embargoed: A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement to Debut Monday July 12

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Nature/Biomimicry

  Embargo Monday July 12, 2021 10:00 US EDT (check local times here) “The 1st Draft Of The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework” is available for media preview at https://bit.ly/3hFgz2e   Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary, Basile van Havre and Francis Ogwal, co-chairs of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, …

Spider-Inspired Silk Company, Spintex, Awarded $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry, Transforming Finance

  Spiders Inspired This Year’s Ray of Hope Prize Recipient The Biomimicry Institute is proud to announce the 2021 Ray of Hope Prize award recipient is Spintex Engineering. Spintex is a University of Oxford spin-out company that manufactures biodegradable textile fibers for use in fashion and high-performance material applications. As the 2021 Ray of Hope …

Meeting the meat needs of the future

Jay OwenGreentech, Nature/Biomimicry

March 2, 2021   Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Researchers have succeeded in culturing meat in the laboratory in the form of millimeter-scale slabs of contractile bovine muscle. This innovative tissue culture process, arrayed in stackable hydrogel modules, uses electrical pulses to align myotubules thus mimicking the …