In late summer, the ideas started pouring in from every corner of the world. Thousands of designers, architects, biologists, engineers, students, nature-lovers, and big thinkers had answered the call to completely rethink our food system using design inspiration from nature. The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, hosted by the Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, provided a platform for these global innovators to practice biomimicry in action, by applying it to one of the…
Eight reasons to be hopeful about the future of our food system
More of Today's Solutions
Monterey Park becomes first US city to permanently ban data centers
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Monterey Park voted 86 percent to 14 percent last Tuesday to permanently ban data centers from the city. ...
Read MoreHow the act of learning to read rewires the brain and changes the way you hear
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Learning to read does something to the brain beyond teaching it to decode text. A new study in ...
Read MoreThe future of sustainable fashion: self-healing mushroom-based leather
The environmental impact of the fashion industry has become an increasing worry in a society where fast fashion has been the standard. But there ...
Read MoreFDA finally pulls the plug on Red Dye No. 3 in food
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM After decades of debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned Red Dye No. 3 from ...
Read More
