On a roll now, week 3 already!
Welcome to anyone new, I hope you are all having a lovely morning, if you’re in Ireland that is.
I am actually writing this late at night from LA, be home soon though.
Here is what caught my eye this week!
I came across this 🗺️
Edible Plastic
A company from Indonesia, called Evoware, was one of six winners of the $1 million Circular Design Challenge that focused on finding solutions for small plastic packaging.
The company turned to using seaweed as an alternative to plastic..
“As a material, seaweed has some obvious advantages to oil-based plastic beyond the fact that it doesn’t create waste. While seaweed grows, it sucks up CO2. An area of ocean roughly the size of a baseball field can grow 40 tons of seaweed in a year, absorbing 20.7 tons of greenhouse gases. Unlike some other sources used to make bioplastic–like corn–it’s grown without fertilizers, water, or other resources. Seaweed farmers in Indonesia currently produce more than they can sell, and struggle to make a living.”
(read more - Curiosity.com)
It dissolves as you make your chosen product… genius.
“Evoware plans to make dissolvable packages of instant coffee, sugar and seasonings in instant noodles. Instead of opening tiny plastic packets and tossing them in the trash, these packets will disintegrate as boiling water is poured on top.”
(read more - Curiosity.com)
’Evoware’ are also making Edible plastic cups
The new packaging is being put into practice right now!
“If you buy a Belgian waffle at a food festival this weekend in Ubud, Bali, you’ll be able to eat the wrapper it comes in. A waffle vendor is one of the early customers testing new food packaging made from seaweed instead of plastic: The wrapper is nutritious if it’s eaten, and if it ends up as litter, it naturally biodegrades.”
(read more - Fast Company)
Topical 💬
”Game Changer Of The Year”
Awarded to Greta Thunberg, she will cover the October edition of GQ Magazine.
"Her fearless dedication to raising awareness of the global climate change crisis makes her the absolute embodiment of this award and on behalf of GQ we couldn't be prouder to celebrate her."
- Dylan Jones (GQ Editor )
“She is the Swedish schoolgirl who, in August last year, decided to school strike for climate and sparked a global movement – about 1.6 million people in 133 countries. The one who has covered Time magazine, met Obama and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The one who has given speeches at the UN, Davos and the British parliament. The one who has become a symbol for a generation not being listened to by a generation that won’t have to suffer the consequences of not listening.”
(read more - full interview with GQ Magazine)
As an avid sailor myself, I am very impressed with her latest endeavour.
Greta has set sail on a zero-carbon journey to America, starting in Plymouth and due in to New York in two weeks time.
“A two-week crossing of the Atlantic during hurricane season in a solar-powered yacht is the first obstacle, but it is unlikely to be the toughest in an odyssey through the Americas over many months.
This will be both the ultimate gap year and a journey into the heart of climate darkness: first to the United States of president Donald Trump, who has promised to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, and then down to South America, possibly including Brazil where president Jair Bolsonaro is overseeing a surge of Amazon deforestation.”
(read more - The Guardian)
Science & Humans 👪⚛️🔬
Machine Learning but REALLY simple (Watch 📹)
Firstly I love this man, Mark Rober.
I watched this video the other day and took two main things from it.
I learnt a fair bit about baseball that I didn’t know before.
Most importantly, he explains & demonstrates the concept of machine learning in one of the practical and simplest forms I’ve ever come across.
‘Neural Networks’ are quite a complicated concept to explain, it is a computers way of thinking for itself and is similar to how our brains work, so you know yourself, that is pretty fucking complicated.
In most cases once we’ve ‘trained’ one, we (humans) don’t actually know the exact path by which the computer took to produce an answer, because we didn’t write the code, it did….
Would definitely recommend this to your inner nerd.
Sick ⛰️🤙🏽
The first of many times this steady-cam genius who goes by @gimbalgod will be featured…
(It's a video)
Smile 😊
Photography 📷
Think 🤔
Unless you do laundry in the nude, you always have laundry to do
Profound 🤯🌊
If you had $1 for every year the universe has existed (approximately 13.8 billion years), you wouldn't even make the top 50 on the Forbes list.
That’s all for now 🤙🏽
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