♻️ Green Tech
♻️ Notpla is designed to “make packaging disappear”
A startup called Notpla has created a new type of packaging made from plants and seaweed. While it looks like plastic, it was designed to replace plastic, and the name is actually short for “not plastic.” "Notpla is a seaweed-based, sustainable...
🧊 Jelly ice cubes – a sustainable solution for cold storage
Being able to ship refrigerated goods without using ice or classical ice packs is what the researchers from UC Davis wished for. Now, they have created a substitute for regular ice that doesn’t melt, can be composted, is antimicrobial and it’s called...
💬 How the green revolution can be successful
Classical age, romanticism, the industrial revolution, post-war development, and the current digital revolution. These are the main periods in which human beings have developed the best inventions, increased the well-being of humanity the most, and pushed courageously...
🎨Seaweed dye makes its way into haute couture
Nienke Hoogvliet and Anne Boermans have been researching how to create sustainable and eco-friendly textile dyes and during the past eight years they have tried different types of seaweed. The seaweed dyes act as an alternative to the traditional dyes which are...
