Author Archives: lexxwinters

Fifty years ago the city of Camden was a major industrial powerhouse. At its peak Camden supplied over 40,000 manufacturing jobs, but the pollution left behind still lingers even after all the jobs were lost. One of the glaring problems in the city of Camden today is that the soil contains high levels of lead.Continue reading “Phytoremediation Gardens”

“She exists on a completely different plane of thought”  “She exists 20 to 30, if not 50, years in the future” –Caroline Till SUBJECT: The biodesign mastermind Carole Collet is the Director of Sustainable Innovation and the Director of Design & Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Here sheContinue reading “Artist Report: Carole Collet”

The University of Pennsylvania’s submission to the 2019 BioDesign Challenge was Denimaize. The idea behind the project was to try and reinvent denim jeans. They used retted corn husks that have been colored with a microbial dye that originates from the fungal infection corn smut. While the team from UPenn is still perfecting their material,Continue reading “sub vs cont: BioDesign Challenge DENIMAIZE”

Natalie Jeremijenko’s Feral Robotic Dogs are a groundbreaking harmony of the worlds of technology and sustainability. Her ingenuity and ability to think outside of the box allowed her to create robots that use sensors to “sniff” the concentration of toxic pollutants of its surroundings. The robots themselves come in many models because they are madeContinue reading “sub vs. cont~Natalie Jeremijenko”