For every grain of rice we eat, more than the equivalent amount of fiber goes to waste. The same goes for other crops too. In fact, there's more underutilized #fiber wasted by the agricultural industry than the total amount of plantbased food in the world. We're here to end this.

15 carbon removal projects were each awarded $1M as part of the $100M Carbon Removal Xprize (funded by the Musk foundation), a 4-year competition that aims to award companies demonstrating carbon negative solutions that at minimum extract 1 ton of CO2/day. xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

Air Company, the creator of the world's first carbon-negative alcoholic beverage, announced $30M in Series A. With plans to utilize the capital to fuel CO2-derived alcohol production, this is just the beginning of this new wave of consumer products! aircompany.com

Did you know over 100 billion pounds of food is wasted in the US every year, with ~33 billion pounds coming from restaurants? How canYOU curb food waste? Check out Too Good To Go-a mobile application that connects customers to restaurants and stores that have unsold food surplus!

Alternative proteins are on the rise..we've seen the Impossible but now there are some new players in town. Cultivated Proteins! Upside Foods just raised $400M in series C to fuel commercialization of their first consumer product,chicken without slaughter. upsidefoods.com

What is the IPCC? IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a branch of the UN responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change. The IPCC predicts we need to remove 10 gigatonnes of CO2/year by 2050 to keep temperatures from rising 2C.

American Venture Capitalist John Doerr invests $1.1B to create Stanford's School of Sustainability, a new type of school focused on cultivating impact solutions to sustainability challenges facing ecosystems worldwide. news.stanford.edu/2022/05/04/sta…

Voyage Foods, the California-based company that has reverse-engineered chocolate, peanut butter, and coffee, closed a $36 million Series A investment round. Voyage sets to create everyday food alternatives in the fight toward a sustainable future. voyagefoods.com

"If Leonardo da Vinci had drunk water from a plastic bottle when he was painting the Mona Lisa, that bottle would not have fully decomposed yet” #BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution bit.ly/3yxAbPE

Did you know 40% of food grown globally is wasted? Full Harvest, a San Francisco, CA-based marketplace for surplus and imperfect produce, raised $5M in Series B fullharvest.com/mission