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 …

Media Release: IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Nature/Biomimicry, Latest Headlines

Media Release Issued on 13 December 2020 by the secretariats of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)  IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop: Spotlighting the Interactions of the Science of Biodiversity and Climate Change  BONN / GENEVA, Dec 13 – Biodiversity …

How do systems change?

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Trendspotting, Nature/Biomimicry, Halophytes

“Ethical Markets welcomes this focus on deeper trends signaling longer-term changes provided by our UK-based friends at Forum for the Future.  We like their focus on changing our food systems by engaging chefs.  See our similar efforts to showcase gourmet chefs using wider arrays of overlooked, nourishing foods from indigenous farmers and those …

Veggie-loving fish could be the new white meat: Aquaculture potential of the monkeyface prickleback

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Nature/Biomimicry, Halophytes

February 19, 2020 Source: University of California – Irvine Summary: A secret to survival amid rising global temperatures could be dwelling in the tidepools of the US West Coast. Biologists studying the genome of an unusual fish residing in those waters offer new possibilities for humans to obtain dietary protein …

Friends, I’m really excited for you to see this

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News, Trendspotting, Nature/Biomimicry, Latest Headlines

“We at Ethical Markets are avid supporters of the Good Food Institute (GFI) and its amazingly creative work, which aligns with our mission of helping accelerate the global green transition to inclusive, cleaner, knowledge-richer sustainable societies.   We refer to GFI initiatives in our own research and in our Green Transition …