Artificial Intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other emergent technologies are known for their disruptive potential. In her new book, Indigenous Currencies, Ashley Cordes (Kōkwel/Coquille) insists they can also be systems of abundance.
In a first in North America, wastewater is being harnessed for energy in Vancouver’s Olympic Village.
Construction digs up vast amounts of contaminated soil. GRT Resource Regeneration found a low-carbon way to transform it for new uses.
Lux Bio invented a bioluminescent alternative to the toxic plastic wands that litter landfills and oceans.
Ji Yang is working to create a climate-resilient beer brewed with locally grown hops.
From husks that would go to waste, Tidal Vision extracts a polymer with many green uses.
BC’s Vitacore figured out how to recycle difficult plastics like the respirators it manufactures by the millions.
