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6 Mins Read Anyone whose recently been on the streets of Santiago, Chile, might have noticed posters plastered around the city that read, “If we are what we eat . . . That’s not what I want to be.” The message came courtesy of The Live Green Co., a Santiago-based food-tech startup that uses an AI-powered recommendations engine […]
3 Mins Read Swiss flavour and fragrance manufacturing giant Givaudan unveiled its new artificial intelligence(AI) driven tool that will be used to develop its flavors division, Givaudan Taste & Wellness. As part of Givaudan’s 2025 strategic plan, the world’s largest flavour manufacturer announced its investment into new AI tools that will focus on reducing the time needed to develop and […]
5 Mins Read According to experts, Bali’s famous beaches like Kuta and Legian beaches are being buried by up to 60 tonnes of plastic rubbish each day. Worse, this is becoming an annual reality owing to weather patterns like monsoons and inefficient waste management leading to a worldwide marine pollution crisis. Over just the period of two days […]
4 Mins Read Recently launched by DBS, Google, Temasek and other partners, the climate-innovation accelerator ‘Sustaintech Xcelerator’ aims to provide support to those who are developing innovative tools to improve the monitoring and verification of environmental, social, and economic impacts of nature-based solutions (NbS). Apart from DBS, Google, and Temasek Holdings, the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Centre for […]
3 Mins Read With our planet soon to reach 10 billion people, feeding the entire population healthily and sustainably is going to be one of the biggest challenges our world faces. Food innovation will be at the forefront of transforming our current broken food system, but there are often many obstacles along the way. Texas-based startup Journey Foods […]
3 Mins Read The Indonesian island of Bali has been battling a plastic waste crisis for years, with the government declaring a “trash emergency” in 2017. Now, a new project called Sungai Watch hopes to fight plastic waste, which has decimated not only Indonesia but wider Asia and the world’s oceans, by installing 100 trash booms in Bali’s […]
3 Mins Read Once Indonesia’s primary source of water, the Citarum river has now become so polluted it ranks as the “world’s most polluted river” by the World Bank. The scale of pollution is visible in the mounds of garbage, hazardous sludge and dead animals lying in the water. The impact of the contamination runs even deeper – […]