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A man in Taiwan is helping reduce fashion waste by creating a sustainable alternative to artificial textiles from an already existing waste stream. He’s using oyster shells—which when ground up and processed can produce a flexible yarn similar to sheep’s wool that’s been appropriately dubbed “sea wool.” According to the Taiwanese…

Rising sea levels and coastal erosion are threatening farmers on America’s mid-Atlantic coast, but a crop from colonial times may be the future harvest in places like Delaware and New Jersey. The issue is that more and more mid-Atlantic farmland is becoming inundated with salt making crops like corn and soy…

Businesses like to talk about the concept of a closed loop or circular economy, but often they’re trying to close small loops. Releaf Paper takes dead leaves from city trees and turns them into paper for bags, office supplies, and more—which is to say they are striving to close one heck…

Just off the Pacific Coast Highway, a line around the block heralded the presence of an exciting new spot in Long Beach—the state’s first sports bar dedicated to the women’s game. Watch Me is not only the first such location in the state, but just 1 of 5 in the whole…

In 2022, GNN reported that Britain’s Royal Mint began using a patented new chemical reaction to recover and reuse the gold, and other metals, within old circuit boards. Now, a large processing plant for recovering this gold is fully operational and boasts the capacity to break down 4,000 metric tons of…

In one of the poorest countries in the world, an American entrepreneur is empowering women and girls to stay in school and become household earners. Employing women as seamstresses with a generous benefits package to sew school uniforms—one of the highest financial barriers to entry into the school system—two generations of…

A fourth-generation Black American farmer is bringing 21st-century agriculture into the lives of youth from marginalized communities, teaching them how to grow and sell nutritious food to the people who need it. Marcus Carpenter is the founder of Route 1, an organization that focuses on introducing farming to people, and farmers…