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This brand grows its carbon-negative packaging from mycelium
To further minimize its impact on the environment, French brand Amen is now shipping its candles in carbon-negative packing made from mycelium and agricultural waste. Amen is already known as a sustainable luxury brand. They use natural wax from vegetable oil to make candles rather than an animal Read More...
Levi’s is launching a marketplace for your old jeans
Have an old pair of Levi’s jeans lying around? It could fetch you up to $25 if you bring it back to one of the brand’s US stores. In an attempt to embrace the circular economy, Levi has launched a new program in which the company buys old Levi’s jeans, cleans them, and sells them in a new Read More...
Adidas and Stella McCartney to sell products made of fungus leather by 2021
Recently, we covered a study that documented the incredible potential of fungi to replace animal-derived leather with a more eco-friendly and cost-effective alternative. Now giant retailers are joining forces to bring this bio-material to scale by investing significant amounts of money in a Read More...
Breath test detects 80 percent of cancer cases in first trials
Scientists in Australia have developed a special breath test that can quickly detect head and neck cancers with a high degree of accuracy. Around the world, head and neck cancers account for six percent of all cancers and kill around 300,000 people. Treatments can be effective, but that’s only Read More...
Chronic pain is difficult to treat, but yoga and meditation can offer relief
Researchers continue to unearth more and more benefits of yoga and meditation. If stress reduction, lowered risk of illness, and better sleep weren’t enough to convince you to roll out that yoga mat, researchers have now found that yoga and meditation can help relieve chronic Read More...
Researchers say the sustainable food of the future lies under the sea
Last week we shared a story about how more Germans are moving to a vegetarian or flexitarian diet. Cutting meat out of our diets means replacing this protein and fatty acid source with a nutritional alternative, but what are the most sustainable alternatives available? This is exactly the question Read More...
October 7, 2020
We're spanning the generations on the Update today. We've got fecal transfers boosting the gut biome of C-section newborns and robots that could assist the elderly from the ceiling in Japan. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
October 7, 2020
We're spanning the generations on the Update today. We've got fecal transfers boosting the gut biome of C-section newborns and robots that could assist the elderly from the ceiling in Japan. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
October 7, 2020
We're spanning the generations on the Update today. We've got fecal transfers boosting the gut biome of C-section newborns and robots that could assist the elderly from the ceiling in Japan. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
October 7, 2020
We're spanning the generations on the Update today. We've got fecal transfers boosting the gut biome of C-section newborns and robots that could assist the elderly from the ceiling in Japan. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...