TIS Weekly (#118): Hopeful Innovations That Help Clean Up Our Earth
[September 10th, 2017]
I’m a Millennial. If the predictions are correct, I’ll get to experience some disastrous changes to our Earth due to climate change. Frightening hurricanes like Irma among others. I’m happy to see many innovators from all over the world, working on solutions for a greener and healthier world. The Innovation Station’s contribution in this? Sharing knowledge to prevent climate change globally!
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Ocean Cleanup — where are they now?
In 2013 the Dutch teenager Boyan Slat went viral with his TED talk on his plan to clean up the oceans. In this talk from earlier this year he talks about deploying the Ocean Cleanup system and how it will remove half of the Pacific Ocean’s plastic in just five years.
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Cities free of air pollution
German startup Green City Solutions combines moss with the Internet of Things to make an intelligent air filter for cities. They created a free-standing ‘CityTree’ installation which features a moss culture that naturally absorbs the pollution in urban environments. They claim that one CityTree has the same effect as 275 trees.
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Turning CO2 into baking soda
The Indian company Carbonclean has developed a sustainable procedure to catch and process CO2 emissions and make them into products as baking soda, laundry detergent or glass.
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The polyester digester
American innovators Akshay Sethi and Moby Ahmed have developed a method to recycle waste polyester textile using microbes. Considering there’s far more plastic in clothing than in packaging — i.e. 40 million tons of polyester from the fashion industry ends up in landfills each year — I’m curious to see if they succeed in making this technology attractive for textile producers to recycle rather than use new polyester.
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