Sustainable Tech That Blew Our Minds in 2021
1 min readPhoto caption: These are the biggest sustainable tech innovations of the year. Adidas / Bolt Threads. Article by Kat Smith. LiveKindly – December 28, 2021.
Before he was the “godfather of cultured meat,” Willem van Eelen, who was born in the Dutch East Indies, was a prisoner at a World War II Japanese camp. After the Japanese surrendered, he moved to the Netherlands and started medical school. It was there where he met researchers working to create skin for burn victims by growing cells in a tank. Inspired by his first-hand experience with starvation as a prisoner of war, he asked if this could be done with food, too. […]