By Miranda Bryant, The Guardian Study proposes government to commission more research into environmental benefits of cattle feed additives. Sweden is one step closer to making the use of methane-reducing cow feed additives such as seaweed government policy after experts recommended further investigation into the area. A report by the …
Vegan Diet Massively Cuts Environmental Damage, Study Shows
By Damian Carrington, Guardian Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones. Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded. The research showed that …
Saved by Seaweed: Nuns and Native Women Heal Polluted New York Waters Using Kelp
By Casey Kleczek, Guardian During the year’s first harvest, Donna Collins-Smith pulls sugar kelp off a line in Shinnecock Bay. The kelp is then brought to shore to be washed and weighed. Photograph: Cameron Judith Peter The sisters and a group of women from a local Indigenous tribe started a …
What Plastic Pollution? These Companies Are Making Packaging Disappear
By Scarlett Buckley, Sustainable Brands As innovators such as Notpla and B’ZEOS continue to prove, the potential uses for seaweed — including as plastic alternatives that are truly compostable and biodegradable — are endless. Currently, the world produces more than 380 million tonnes of plastic a year, with 42 percent of this …
What if kelp forests can save the oceans?
By Tara Lohan, Corporate Knights Seaweed has acted as fertilizer, food and medicine. Now researchers are beginning to tally more of its environmental benefits. Photo by Stefan Andrews via Ocean Image Bank Floridians are bracing for an unwanted visitor this summer: sargassum. A 5,000-mile-long island of this rootless seaweed is floating around …
Aquaculture Industry Must Become Regenerative or Fail to Meet Demand by 2050
Sustainable Brands Staff Analysis from Planet Tracker finds diversifying farmed seafood production can close supply gap while tackling biodiversity risks, and calls on investors and lenders to help finance this regenerative transition. A new report from Planet Tracker finds the aquaculture industry in its current form will fail to satisfy growing …
Farming More Seaweed Could Be Sustainable Way Forward for Food, Feed, Fuel
Seaweed has great potential as a superfood and a building block for products including plastics, fibers and fuel. Expanding seaweed farming could help reduce demand for crops on land and global GHGs from agriculture by up to 2.6B tonnes of CO2e per year. New research published in Nature Sustainability shows that expanding …
How ocean vegetables could help tackle the global food crisis
May 31, 2022 As the world population is expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, we need to increase our food production by 70 percent to be able to feed everyone. But more importantly, we need to figure out ways to do it sustainably. Traditional agriculture won’t cut it because of growing …
Researchers make Synthetic Starch out of Carbon Dioxide
Brimming with bio stories on #regulation, the businesses transitioning to #carbonneutral, the latest investments in #futurefoods. ‘Bioresearch of the Week’ is back with innovations & discoveries in the fields of health, materials, and farming, and ‘Biomass Innovations Under Investigation Part 4: Forestry and Energy Crops’. And making Synthetic Starch …
The other COP meeting
“This UN conference on Biodiversity is indeed, as important as COP26, stating this week in Kunming, China. We hope this will be another possible area of friendly competition between China and the USA to reach for higher goals on climate crises before COP26 in Glasgow, in November. See my article “ESG Stakeholder …