#whatworks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whatworks, aggregated by home.social.
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#WhatWorks💡: This brownish powder that looks like it was scraped off the surface of Mars is meant to be new ammunition in the fight to reverse the decline of honeybee populations in Canada and beyond, explains Mingyang Sun, co-founder of a company called Nature Recombined Sciences. 🐝
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Tara McMullin is someone I respect. A lot. She's a deep thinker, and her wheelhouse is work. What works. What doesn't. And why. Now that I'm no longer grinding out content marketing writing, I don't make time to read Tara's newsletter very often, but this one caught my attention. I'm glad it did.
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#WhatWorks💡: Wildtype has ambitions to open a larger facility that can produce volume “comparable to a large-scale fish farming operation.” 🍴🐟
Josh Kozelj reports.
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#WhatWorks💡: “I knew that people were making bioplastics out of seaweed. I was using seaweed as a fertilizer and a biostimulant. And I was like: What if we put those two things together?” 🌱
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#WhatWorks💡: The tree remains a favourite for making pianos and guitars. But few people look at it and think, “Yum!”
That’s a shame, says Benjamin Patarin, because the Sitka spruce, like many other Vancouver Island plants, is an edible delicacy. 🌿🍄🟫🫐 Ryan Stuart reports.
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#WATCH: As Erick Serpas Ventura sees it, deconstruction is a sustainable alternative to demolition, which can harm landfills and lead to negative environmental impacts.
His hunch comes at an important time for a changing region. #WhatWorks💡
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Scott Hamlin’s text-upcycling company Looptworks has kept about 5.6 million pounds of materials out of landfills, he says. #WhatWorks💡
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#WhatWorks💡: Although Indigenous Peoples contributed nearly $50 billion to Canada’s economy in 2020, entrepreneurs may experience discrimination and not have the resources needed to grow their businesses. Andrea Smith reports.
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#WhatWorks: Years after co-founding SFU’s first electric racing team, Gabriel Soares, Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan and Gurmesh Sidhu now lead a firm that makes generator-like energy storage systems from used EV batteries. 🚗🪫 Josh Kozelj reports.
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#WhatWorks: CEO Felix Böck started ChopValue in 2016 to show other engineers how to turn trash like chopsticks into sustainable products.
But the 26-year-old German engineer didn’t plan on becoming the chopstick guy. 🥢 Grace Kennedy reports.
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It would be a shopping experience free from the ecological harm done by traditional grocery stores with their plastic-wrapped produce and countless brands of processed snacks delivered by long lines of carbon-spewing trucks. 🫘
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#WhatWorks: When sugar cane is crushed to make sugar, it turns into a pulpy material known as bagasse, which then gets turned into paper.
Sugar cane can be harvested up to four times per year — much quicker than the 30 years it may take for a tree to grow and be chopped down. 🗒️🌳🍬
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#WhatWorks: Since 2023, Diaper Stork has offered compostable diapers to customers.
More recently, it piloted a high-heat process to turn compostable diapers into biochar — a substance that can be used for fertilizer and even to purify water.
Andy Engelson reports. 👶🧷
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“I’d say, ‘Otto, fill the boat and I’ll call all our friends.’ I’d say it’s $25 flat rate for a fish, people would come down, get a fish, and they’d all call each other.” 🎣
Josh Kozelj reports our latest #WhatWorks.
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The Protein Problem: This Vancouver company found one in the rootlike structure of mushrooms. The Tyee’s latest in #WhatWorks. 🍄🥩
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#WhatWorks: An Indigenous-owned model for sustainable tourism.
How the Klahoose converted a closed BC fishing lodge into a place to immerse in nature and culture.
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#WhatWorks: Robert Humble started making homes from upcycled shipping containers in the early 2000s, a milestone in eco-design.
A postcard from Seattle, the birthplace of modular home design. 🏡
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#WhatWorks: Retaining its focus on pollinators, climate change and soil health, wildly successful seed company West Coast Seeds stays true to its roots and sells over three million seed packets a year. 🌱
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#WhatWorks: Washington state’s biggest provider of natural gas is telling customers to get off gas.
At least, that’s the implicit message in this pilot project launched by Puget Sound Energy, which seeks to electrify 10,000 Washington households. ⚡️
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Lea LeGardeur went from learning to crew aboard the I Gotta to captaining her own boat in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.
The seagoing program changing lives. 🛥 #WhatWorks
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“Success is when we’re eating all our traditional foods.”
Five First Nations on Vancouver Island are redefining fishing industry success. 🎣
A Q&A with Nuu-chah-nulth Seafood’s president Larry Johnson. #WhatWorks
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Construction digs up vast amounts of contaminated soil. GRT Resource Regeneration found a low-carbon way to transform it for new uses. Our latest #WhatWorks, by Andrew Findlay.
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💡 #WhatWorks: Lux Bio invented an alternative to the toxic plastic wands that litter landfills and oceans. Pippa Norman reports.
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#WhatWorks: Sang Le was irked in university by the amount of food she was wasting — forgetting about an item in the back of the fridge or that hadn’t been stored properly.
Now Le has co-founded Peko, which nourishes people while cutting emissions. 🥕
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An Indigenous farmer’s inventive approach to bringing traditional foods to her community — many at no cost. 🥬 Michelle Week’s words, as told to Aldyn Chwelos.
The latest from The Tyee’s section on #WhatWorks:
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#WhatWorks: Arunima Sangwan left her job at McDonald’s to launch Break Time, which serves Indian street food.
One Kamloops non-profit made her dream possible.
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#WhatWorks: Timber Tiles on Vancouver Island offers a climate-friendly alternative to an ancient craft that today relies on fossil fuels.
Andrew Findlay reports.
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Regenerative tourism anyone?
For social enterprise 4VI, tourism success is about visitors and their dollars leaving the place in better shape than they found it.
Ryan Stuart reports our latest #WhatWorks. ♻️
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#WhatWorks: In summer 2016, Ji Yang was between Squamish and Vancouver when a vine twisting through underbrush and bushes caught his trained eye.
The biologist and botanist discovered a feral hop population growing in the wild, and he was intrigued. 🍻🌱
https://thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/2024/04/01/How-BC-Biologist-Changing-Craft-Beer-Scene/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial