Words, beauty, and cellular agriculture 🍣
Evening eco-nnecters,
That time of the year when the climate crisis feels like skiing on sand from the Sahara… So COP was officially a COP-out, but that doesn’t mean that outside of the political sphere cool projects aren’t flourishing!
🗞️ In Climate News
👏 COP27: A ‘Loss and Damage’ fund established after 30 years of negotiations.
😩 COP27:Failure to find agreement on phasing down all fossil fuels, resistance was led by the Arab League countries.
💸 COP27: The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) of $150 trillion is struggling to secure funds.
🤑 Banks lent $300B to fossil fuel projects this year, up 15% from last year.
🌊Australia faces more extreme weather events linked to the climate crisis.
.📈 Cool Trends
🛏️Carbon-negative pillow fillings recovering peatlands.
My Name is Beauty
“Language carries with it life and energy that move through space and time as if a cosmic force, a matter of physics and not social construction.”—MY NAME IS BEAUTY by Jake Skeets
We invite you to listen to or read this exceptional essay on the power behind words and language—it’s time to change the narrative on writing and acknowledge it for what it truly is: a powerful technology.
🍣 The First Lab-Grown Sushi Bars
Cellular agriculture is taking center stage. Soon you will dine in lab-grown sushi bars, wear cultured cotton, and use deforestation-less palm oil, all whilst sipping on a cultured cup of cocoa.
Here 5 products startups are focusing on!
Cellular nigiris: Wildtype, Blue Nalu, Finless Foods.
Lab-grown oils: c16 Biosciences (palm oil), Zero Acre (vegetable oils)
Udder-less Milk: Perfect Day (fungi that produce milk proteins), TurtleTree Labs (cellular milk), Opalia foods (whole milk with mammary cells)
Cellular chocolate and coffee. California Cultured
Cultured Cotton: Galy.
“Fresh fish without the microplastics, mercury, parasites, and other toxins commonly found in seafood today.”—Wildtype
Cultured agriculture works in a similar way to a micro brewery, check out the full processes here.
💩 WTF? news
🐸 Study confirms that Costa Rica’s golden frog went extinct due to climate crisis.
🤨COP27 fails to reach agreement that would limit heating to 1.5°C, perhaps the COPs aren’t working?
🌏 The Culture Club
📺 What we’re watching: John Oliver: Qatar World Cup
📸 Profile of the week: @seaspiracy
🎧 What we’re listening to: Outrage + Optimism
🤯 Scary fact we learnt this week: Farmed salmon is not pink, it’s artificially dyed.