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Edible Innovations: Saving Bees and Snacking with Turtle Haus

Edible Innovations: Saving Bees and Snacking with Turtle Haus

By Chiara Cecchini

Chiara Cecchini

Chiara is fascinated by food as a means to impact bodies, minds, and environment. She has studied international business in three different countries, and is an alumni of the Food Innovation Program and US Director at the Future Food Institute.

Based in California, she is also a Research Scholar at Food Science and Technology at UC Davis, working on building the first comprehensive Internet of Food to enable food care through food systems semantics. She is a selected member of Barilla Center Food Nutrition Foundation, a Research Affiliate at Institute For The Future, Board Member at Maker Faire and selected member of the Global Shapers, a young global network of innovators promoted by the World Economic Forum.

She is passionate about social entrepreneurship and impact investing, and aims to leave her mark on society.

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In an effort to lessen the toll on bees, Morgan Woolf created Turtle Haus. The company uses sustainable practices that don’t stress out bees.

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Groasis Waterboxx: Greening the World

Groasis Waterboxx: Greening the World

Sherry Ritter

By Sherry Ritter

Sherry Ritter

Sherry Ritter is a biologist, writer, and educator living in Montana. Before getting involved with biomimicry, she was a wildlife ecologist with state wildlife agencies in Wyoming and Idaho, and worked for the U.S. Forest Service. Biomimicry fits her life-long interest in organisms’ adaptations to survive.

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Inspired by nature, AquaPro used biomimicry to design the Groasis technology using the Waterboxx to allow plantings in difficult areas. Founder and inventor Pieter Hoff mimicked how animal droppings give plants a head start. His company has used the Groasis technology in more than 30 countries, restoring damaged areas and providing people the chance to grow trees and vegetables in dry, rocky soils.

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Elf Solar-Powered Bicycle Vehicle Rolls Forward

Elf Solar-Powered Bicycle Vehicle Rolls Forward

By Phil Shapiro

Phil Shapiro

Phil Shapiro is a maker and media maker in the Washingon DC area. He loves open source, digital storytelling and fixing up donated computers to deliver to people who need them. He can be reached at pshapiro@his.com and on Twitter @philshapiro.

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The solar-powered Elf bicycle vehicle (velomobile) shows the future of zero emission transportation. It’s a fun vehicle to bike, too.

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Be Cycle & Fashion: Custom Bikes for Charity

Be Cycle & Fashion: Custom Bikes for Charity

By katiewalkerwilson

katiewalkerwilson

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Introducing, Be Cycle, a customization project where twelve great names in fashion and design modify and decorate twelve Peugeot fixed gears for auction. The proceeds will benefit ACT Responsible, a non profit dedicated to promoting environmental and social causes. As a cult object and symbol of a responsible attitude, cycling made its comeback in many […]

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Creating solutions: XelaTeco

Creating solutions: XelaTeco

By Chris Connors

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

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[Photo from AIDG on Flickr] XelaTeco is an organization that helps gather and distribute technologies in the communities of Guatemala. Xeni Jardin covered the story with photos and audio on NPR’s Day to Day. Xela Teco builds environmentally friendly technology that can be used to bring survival basics to poverty-stricken villages in the Mayan highlands: […]

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Teaching sustainability with STEP

Teaching sustainability with STEP

By Chris Connors

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

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Image from STEP Looking to teach sustainability in to the young’uns in your life? Try the Sustainability Technology Education Project, or STEP. There are 35 case studies on the STEP site, primarily aimed at key stage 4 students. These provide a range of examples of sustainable solutions to technology issues from around the world. Each […]

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