This week's fascinating (and illuminating 😂) feature story discusses how copying the elegant, energy-conserving efficiencies of cuttlefish (eight armed didn't you know) can serve sustainability goals #biomimetic
This week we bring you episode 2 of the World Bio Markets 2023 presentations where Dr. Colleen Walker, from the University of Maine, explores how today's forests will launch tomorrows sustainable products.
The marine mollusc inspiring nature-imitating devices
Replicas of biological mechanisms often call for bio-based materials because their suppleness is able to mimic the pliability of living organisms that enables them to carry out complex functions. Here, we look at how researchers are studying different cuttlefish body parts and applying them to sectors like renewable energy, robotics, and architecture.
FLORA Ventures launches $80M fund to Invest in sustainable agrifood tech startups
FLORA Ventures invests in early-stage start-ups from two of the leading AgriFood ecosystems, Israel and Europe, that are building a healthier, more sustainable and resilient AgriFood system; and supports those ventures in scaling globally.
Glaukus develops biobased textile fibres to tackle plastic pollution
Glaukos is one of BBI JU (Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking) funded projects that will develop biobased textile fibres and textile coatings that are adapted to the needs of the 21st century.
Spirulina is easily cultivated at large scales. Also, spirulina cells sequester carbon dioxide as they grow, making this biomass a carbon-neutral, or potentially carbon-negative, feedstock for plastics.
Japan celebrates successful trial of liquefied biomethane-fueled vessel
The LBM was provided by Air Water, and produced from cattle manure in the Tokachi region of Hokkaido as part of a technology development and demonstration project adopted by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment.
Researchers used bio-cellulose to create edible, transparent packaging
The team experimentes with bacterial cellulose, an organic compound derived from certain types of bacteria, which has garnered attention as a sustainable and readily available non-toxic solution that could replace the use of plastics.
