Archive | March 2021
“This company is making construction materials from mushrooms and food waste”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/biohm-mushroom-insulation-building-materials-waste-uplink/
- UK-based company Biohm uses natural vegetative material to ‘grow’ insulation panels.
- It has also developed a new type of composite material that is 100% biodegradable and vegan.
- The circular economy is about designing out waste and pollution and keeping products and materials in use, so Earth’s resources are able to regenerate.
- Biohm is one of 17 companies in The Circulars Accelerator Cohort 2021.
“The wonder material we all need but is running out”
The wonder material we all need but is running out – BBC Future
Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world’s rubber trees. Do we need to find alternative sources of rubber before it’s too late?
The Gulf Stream is slowing to a ‘tipping point’ and could disappear
The Gulf Stream is slowing to a ‘tipping point’ and could disappear | Live Science
The Gulf Stream — one of Earth’s major climate-regulating ocean currents — is moving slower than it has in thousands of years, a new study suggests. Human-induced climate change is largely to blame.
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