Ecotone • The Stand-Alone Unit For Food Waste
Ecotone is addressing the issues that their customers encounter, such as high fertilizer costs, high trash hauling fees, odor and pests, and costly waste transportation rates.
The Technology Bringing Texture to Alternative Meats
Gelatex has created a scaffolding technology that enables companies like Beyond Meat to produce plant-based meats that contain the exact same textures as the authentic meats we’ve come to love.
An Alternative to Food Based Bio-Fuels
Hexas may stem negative externalities from both deforestation and the use of marginal cropland with the successful deployment of its biomass solution. This would be accomplished by converting marginal farmlands into quality farmland in about five years while providing biomass to be used for a number of applications instead of trees.
Re-Nuble – Enabling Vertical Farms to go Organic
Globally, agriculture accounts for nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, uses nearly two-thirds of freshwater, and in many countries is also the biggest contributor to water pollution. Vertical and indoor farming is one solution that can fix these problems by reducing carbon footprint and resource usage. The one catch is if these farms want to produce organic produce, some of the inputs used are not organic. This is where Re-Nuble comes in, producing inputs for vertical and indoor farms that are organic-enabling. Tinia Pina digs into this issue and how Re-Nuble is filling in this gap.
Daily Catch – The Hidden Story Behind Our Food
This combined with social media can make for rapid changes in consumer trends as well as how producers operate and produce food. More importantly, the value that Daily Catch mentions can be amplified by promoting its value through creative outlets like TikTok, Instagram, and live and in-person. Effectively bringing education to the masses by leveraging technology could spur a “climate education sector” that could contribute to significant carbon reduction by promoting climate positive brands and practices.
Lab Grown Meat Could Decarbonize The Climate Quickly • Orbillion Bio
Roughly a third of all emissions that come from the agriculture sector is driven by factory farming and meat production.
Acuity Agriculture Puts Data To Work for Farmers
Acuity Agriculture is a California-based precision agriculture company and Steven Dodge is the founder. Steven and his team have done a remarkable job contracting work with farmers in the West and delivering data-based solutions to help farmers manage their crops.
Getting California Out Of A Drought – By Using Trenches
Surface water evaporates and Umida AG’s underground trenches will try to mitigate evaporation. During the winter months, when there’s an abundance of water, the trenches will help recharge underground aquifers for future water use.
Beyond the Impossible: Kuleana Makes Plant-Based Seafood
Get ready for the next Impossible Foods, but for raw tuna – Kuleana. Kuleana provides plant-based seafood without the environmental and ethical consequences of traditional tuna farming.
TrueAlgae – Creating Metabolite Tea for Soil Health
TrueAlgae is a biotechnology company that has a very efficient, patented mode of production for making high-quality algae.
FloWaste – Providing Data and Insights to Minimize Food Waste
FloWaste recently announced the close of their $270K Pre-Seed round. The round was led by Plug and Play Ventures
Coffee Lovers, You Can Now Use Coffee Grounds As Oil
The Kawa Project is taking spent coffee grounds and upcycling them to create coffee oil and refined oil – both have multiple use cases, from soap and cleaners to candles. Following a previous piece on Kaffe Bueno’s business, Aaron Feigelman, the Founder of The Kawa Project, discusses more about coffee upcycling and what he is working on […]
Aum Energy Creates Low-Carbon, Renewable Natural Gas
This week Rohit Vedhara, the Director of Aum Energy, talks about their innovation in anaerobic digestion and how it ties in with policy and the market.
The Seed (g)Round for Coffee
Wake up and smell the coffee! Kaffe Bueno, a startup upcycling coffee grounds, raised $1.3M in seed funding. Kaffe Bueno is using green chemistry and biotechnology to extend coffee’s potential – minimizing emissions and maximizing reuse.
An Apeeling Raise
Apeel Sciences announced $30M in new funding, in addition to its $250M raise earlier this year. Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste. Why does this matter? According to the UN FAO, over 40% of fresh produce goes to waste. More than 50% of the global fruit supply is […]
Brewing Up New Ideas in Food Upcycling – Reveal
One area of sustainability practices in the food system comes from handling waste streams. One of the more popular trends is upcycling food waste.
Bringing Home the (Plant-Based) Bacon
Plant-based protein has taken to the market, influencing consumer behavior and demand for the products.
Proteins From Bugs – But It Tastes Good
When you hear sustainable or alternative proteins, most people often think about plant-based or cell-based meats. However, there’s much more than just meat – there are also other forms of protein, like insects.
Act Soon Or Face a Liquid Death
Throughout human history, transporting food and water has been critical for survival. Today we have plastic water bottles, but how did this start?
Making an Impact on Sustainable Supply Chains
Impact Snacks was founded in 2016 and recently launched after a highly successful Kickstarter campaign that was completely funded in just 13 hours after going live.
Keep Your Cocktails Clean and Classy
Air Company uses proprietary technology to transform carbon dioxide from the air into vodka while helping solve some of our planet’s most forthcoming problems.
Vegans, Look No Further, Plant-Based Cheese Is On Its Way!
Climax Foods, a startup that’s using data science to replace animal proteins with plant-based substitutes, just raised $7.5M.
An Interview With SolarX
Solutions that are consumer facing are great but are not enough on their own. There needs to be a bigger push for innovation in cold chain and supply chain.
Company Spotlight on Wasteless
Wasteless is an AI-based tracking solution for grocery stores to offer customers dynamic pricing based on product expiration date, helping retailers optimize markdowns, increasing their profitability.
A Meaty Seed Round To Watch
New Age Meats, a biotechnology company growing meat from animal cells, announced $2M in seed extension funding, bringing their total seed round to $4.7M. New Age Meats crafts meat to be tastier, safer, and more sustainable than meat made any other way.
Renewal Mill Company Spotlight
This week, we talked with Caroline Cotto, Co-Founder and COO of Renewal Mill, to discuss how Renewal Mill is looking to the future of food upcycling and organic waste bans.