💡 Innovation
🕶 Ocean Cleanup’s sunglasses fund more cleanup missions
The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit foundation, founded in 2013, has designed a pair of high quality sunglasses that customers can purchase and thereby fund the organization's future and ongoing missions. These sunglasses sold out very quickly and all of the earnings...
🌾 Improved crops without genetic modification
A new idea regarding the modification of crops has come from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan. They have developed a way to improve crop quality without any genetic changes. The new method is used instead of changing the plant's DNA...
🐢 App prevents illegal trade with sea turtles
Sadly, the hawksbill sea turtle is critically endangered due to environmental factors and human attraction to the turtle's unique shell. The hawksbill sea turtle’s shell is used to make frames, jewelry, and other finery. Unfortunately, people love to...
♻️ Chemical treatment makes plastic waste absorb CO2
Researchers from Rice University have developed a method that makes plastic waste absorb carbon dioxide. This method uses the application of potassium acetate to turn plastic waste into carbon dioxide absorbers – as a win-win for the environment. On Rice...
