Adidas. Agriculture. Did we read that right?!

Tennis shoes. Track suits. Textile fiber made from wood and agricultural waste… “One of these things is not like the others.”And yet they all belong to Adidas. Just last week Adidas announced their 3 million euro ($3.7 million USD) investment in Spinnova Oyj, the...
Ivory Coast Cocoa Crop Looks Less Than Sweet

Ivory Coast Cocoa Crop Looks Less Than Sweet

Life is like a box of chocolates…and the Ivory Coast really didn’t know what it was going to get. This year’s rainy season has been unusually dry for the past month, and it’s threatening the April-to-September cocoa mid-crop. The heavy downpours that normally...
Feed from the Sea

Feed from the Sea

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s feed rations. A new startup out of Sweden, Volta Greentech, is raising money ($2.07 million so far) to construct a facility that will produce seaweed with hopes to reduce methane emissions from Swedish cattle. Algae...
Prayin’ for Rain

Prayin’ for Rain

“We need divine intervention.” That was Governor Spencer Cox recently asking Utahns to pray for rain as exceptional drought conditions grip his state. Basically, it’s bad. Like, really bad. But it’s not only the Salt Lake that’s gradually shrinking. Dry weather is...