Food / 13 posts found
The blockchain’s emerging role in sustainability
How Blockchain could help with sustainability. Provenance is a powerful concept that has applications far beyond the flow of money. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
$30.1M Funding for Startup BrightFarms to Fresher Food to Cities
Great to see $30m going to a startup delivering produce closer to where it’s grown. Greenhouses to grow food closer to where they’re sold. Fresher food, lower travel carbon footprint. Well done BrightFarms. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Let them eat bugs: US startup sees future of sustainable food in creepy crawlies
Black soldier fly larvae is a more sustainable animal-feed than the more common wild-caught fish. Grubbly Farm has made bugs its business. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Turn CO2 Into A Sustainable Replacement For Palm Oil
Making money by recycling CO2 into cheaper synthetic Palm Oil while saving trees. What’s not to love about this innovation from Kiverdi (http://www.kiverdi.com/), based on a 1960s astronaut experiment? Their process uses less land, can produce in hours rather than waiting for trees to grow, is cheaper, and can be made to order and scale. Early days, but I hope they get their business model right. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Chobani’s Incubator Seeks Purpose-Driven Food Startups
Chobani is a fantastic food success story, growing to $10Bn in a decade. Now it’s created an incubator for mission-driven food startups – natural affordable food. Perfect mission alignment. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Yume’s B2B Platform Wages War on Food Waste
This magnificent B2B platforms allows restaurants, charities, cafes and other business users of food to buy excess production. A business model that reduces food waste, gives suppliers an income they would’ve missed out on, and businesses cheaper food than through normal channels. Everyone wins. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
HomeGrown Farms Capitalises on Sustainable Farming
Containers as farms. 6 layers mimic a one acre farm, using 20% of the fertilizer and 10% of the water. The food only goes locally, and they donate up to 15% to food banks. Awesome model. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Internet of Things Narrows Gap Between Data and Contribution
The excitement about the Internet of Things is rarely more worthwhile than when it delivers real human contribution, as in these case studies in agriculture and medicine. Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Farming in the Heart of Dublin
Although the focus of Urban Farm is currently on kits to help people get their own agriculture projects started in downtown Dublin, the hope is that it can be much larger. For example, creating mushroom farms in the heart of the city using coffee waste from its hundreds of cafes. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Water Monitors for Aquaponics
It takes someone with a real passion for aquaponics to come up with an idea like this. A water monitoring system, which effectively provides a security blanket for aquaponics farmers. The potential of aquaponics as a really efficient and sustainable form of agriculture is huge, so this is smart thinking as well as good for the planet. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE