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Commentary: Can AI make us shop greener?
The Internet of Food Things Network+ (IoFT) and the Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigation for Scientific Discovery Network have published a paper on the ethics of AI for guiding sustainable consumer choices. Reference: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00183-5
WEF competition for Blue Carbon Projects
UpLink has launched a competition to find finance, training, and education tools that ‘support people, nature, and climate’. Submissions for the Blue Carbon Challenge are open until December the 17th, 2021 on the UpLink website. Proposals must be market-viable blue…
Ivory Coast rice-fish farming improves yields
On October 10th, the Ivory Coast’s National Agency for Rural Development (ANADER) announced the results of its field trial in integrated rice-fish farming. Integrated rice-fish farming is the practice of cultivating fish and rice on the same irrigated plot. Four…
EU Legalises Edible Locusts
The EU commission has authorised the sale of migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria) for human consumption. Businesses in member states can now sell frozen, dried, and powder forms of the species anywhere in the European Union. The authorisation was announced on…
GreenScreen Gives Green Light to Plant-based Foodservice Packaging
GreenScreen Certified is an independent, non-profit assessment system developed by Clean Production Action and the Center for Environmental Health to promote the safer use of chemicals across several industries, including foodservice packaging. The Vanguard foodservice range employs proprietary chemistry to…
Scientists Develop Fuel Made of Sunlight and Air
According to scientists in Switzerland, aeroplane fuel can be made out of just sunlight and air. On the roof of ETH Zurich University, engineers are testing whether a new system of fuel generation can work in the real world. In…