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Tamara Mekler: Cooling the Earth and Your Drinks With Renewable Materials

Tamara Mekler: Cooling the Earth and Your Drinks With Renewable Materials

Tamara: Plastic foam boxes are the go-to packaging solution for temperature-sensitive goods, yet these boxes are always breaking, ending up as small plastic beads that blow out to sea and pollute our oceans. Meanwhile, nature has been keeping coconuts cool for years with tough, insulative husks. But after the coconuts are harvested, the husks are burned as waste, emitting tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Fortuna Cools seeks to replace plastic foam once and for all with upcycled coconut fiber insulation.

Shelly Xu: Taking Fabric Waste Down to Zero

Shelly Xu: Taking Fabric Waste Down to Zero
Shelly: Globally, the apparel industry produces about 92 million tons of textile waste every year. Imagine one truck full of fabric going to waste every single second. This also adds to CO2 emissions and water waste, further harming our planet. My mission at SXD is to drive that fabric waste number down to zero.

Justin Henceroth: Ensuring Quality with a Digital Monitoring and Management Tool

Justin Henceroth: Ensuring Quality with a Digital Monitoring and Management Tool
Justin: When companies, governments, and organizations implement field projects — such as building solar panels on the roofs of schools, installing irrigation canals, or building local retail stores  — they often struggle to get good information about what is happening on all their sites. A lack of information not only makes management difficult, but it prevents managers and teams from catching and fixing issues. This can lead to poor quality infrastructure, cost over-runs, and serious safety concerns.