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”

Demand for rubber is expected to soar in the coming decade, but supplies of natural rubber are at risk from disease, climate change and low prices (Credit: Wendy Johnson/Alamy)

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 current (red) speeds warm water up the eastern coast of the United States, where it clashes with cold water in the North Atlantic.

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.