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Inspired by Nature:
How Ingenuity Creates Sustainable Solutions

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Salt, structure, soil, sound, sustenance. Sustainably minded entrepreneurs are using earth elements in ingenious new ways to power our houses, regenerate bone, extract crucial minerals from the ground, purify water and eliminate plastic waste, all without harming our precious planet.

Let’s peek into some imaginative solutions:

Here on Earth, we live in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions are just right for life to exist. Our sun produces 38,460 septillion watts of energy per second. It’s too large a number to conceive, but it translates into limitless energy for everyone if we discover how to harness this power effectively.

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Plastics: Graduating from Fossil Fuels to a Sustainable Future

In the landmark 1967 film The Graduate a business mogul gives young Dustin Hoffman succinct career advice: “Plastics.”

But the reality as we now know is that plastics poison the environment—and all life on Earth. Nearly 100% of single use plastics are made from fossil fuels which do not biodegrade. →

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Renewed Hope for Fashion: Future Fabrics Expo 2025 Recap

Another inspiring Future Fabrics Expo wrapped up last week in London marking the 15th anniversary of The Sustainable Angle a not-for-profit organisation that initiates and supports sustainability in fashion and textiles food and agriculture and related industries. →