Breakthrough
How companies are innovating to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.
FeaturesA California startup is turning greenhouse gas into a biodegradable plastic alternative that’s being used by Shake Shack, Nike, and H&M
By Ian MountJanuary 10, 2023
By Alexandra Ramanathan, Vincent Vandierendonck, Mikaela Boyd and Scott NancarrowDecember 21, 2022
FeaturesFarmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half
By Ian MountDecember 20, 2022
FeaturesScientists are partnering with Nissan, GM, and Toyota to break up those annoying ‘phantom’ traffic jams using A.I. and cruise control
By Ian MountDecember 6, 2022
FeaturesWind farms kill millions of birds each year. Scientists may have found a simple solution: paint turbines black
By Ian MountNovember 22, 2022
FeaturesMushroom ‘leather’ realistic enough for $4,200 Hermès handbags has raised over $187 million from investors like Natalie Portman, John Legend, and GM
By Ian MountNovember 15, 2022
FeaturesA Silicon Valley startup inspired by SimCity gamified decarbonization and now is helping New Zealand sheep farmers reduce their ‘fart tax’ liabilities
By Ian MountNovember 8, 2022
By James Allen, Mikaela Boyd and Dunigan O’KeeffeNovember 1, 2022
FeaturesHe sprayed on Bella Hadid’s dress in that viral stunt. Now the inventor of fabric-in-a-can wants to revolutionize fashion’s slow, dirty supply chain
By Ian MountOctober 25, 2022
FeaturesDiesel generators power natural disaster cleanups. After Hurricane Ian, an SaaS pioneer and angel investor deployed an alternative: Mobile, solar-based nanogrids
By Ian MountOctober 18, 2022
EuropeA 40-year-old IT entrepreneur solved his midlife crisis by launching a space junk startup that pioneered a $14.3 billion industry
By Ian MountOctober 11, 2022
FeaturesA Bill Gates-backed startup is retrofitting diesel engines to run on cleaner fuel and challenging the idea that ‘all carbon is evil’
By Ian MountSeptember 27, 2022
FeaturesA Dutch-Norwegian startup wants to open ‘a whole new frontier’ of renewable energy with solar farms that float on the ocean’s surface
By Ian MountSeptember 20, 2022
By Gerard du Toit, Alexander Mitscherlich, Nikhil Ojha and Kelly PuSeptember 14, 2022
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