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Catnip’s Secretp

Plants in the Nepeta genus produce compounds that make cats go crazy. (Image: Misty Steiner)

A newly discovered step in the biosynthesis of the cat crazy compound may help synthetic biologists engineer pathways to pharmaceuticals.

Amazing .. perhaps we all need to start rolling in catnip to prevent cancer?

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#Bio-based Chemicals #Nature&039;s Pharmacy

World Environment Day 2016 – Recycling I just loved this picture and dedicate it to my family’s many recycling bins that have been with us for over 20 years! Happy World Environment Day

#environment #recycling #south africa

Biomass.Market Pitch @ Innovation Summit's Pitching Den

Biomass.Market Pitch @ Innovation Summit’s Pitching Den

GCIP-SA showcases Cleantech solutions to real social and environmental challenges! #SAIS2015 pic.twitter.com/aUdyBbcix4 — Cleantech SA (GCIP) (@CleantechSA) August 28, 2015 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNetttiW8AAEr60.jpg:large

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#Forests2015: La Belle au bois dormant (“The Beauty in the Sleeping Woods”)

Innovation and Investment Forum: From the Labs to the Marketplace Last week I was invited to share our story at the XiV World Forestry Congress (WFC2015) of how we took a biorefining process idea to the labs, then got it financed and commercialised it. (more…)

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#biorefining #climate change #forests #furfural #global warming

Social Progress Index: There is More to Life than GDP

IMHO, that’s a talk any leader in politics or finance has to watch .. and should apply the lesson learnt, if they are genuine about Politics and Sustainability. South Africa: 63 .. Switzerland: 3 (out of 162). Check out your country’s index … (more…)

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#capitalism #GDP #Social Progress #Sustainability

Keep Walking: Powered By/For The Masses

Shell Football Pitch, Rio de Janeiro | Pavegen.

Last September, the first football pitch entirely illuminated by the players’ energy was built in a favela, or slum, in Rio!

Since 2009, British company Pavegenhas lit-up streets, billboards, information panels and other communication technologies using panels that are made of 80% recycled materials. They convert the kinetic energy generated by…

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#climate change #green energy #innovative minds

We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy As responsible citizens of the world – sisters and brothers of one family, the human family, God's family – we have a duty to persuade our leaders to lead us in a new direction: to help us abandon our collective addiction to fossil fuels ..

#climate change

A smarter thinker: 10 Facts About Beard You Didn't Know About

Comic illustration by Doghouse Diaries.

Did you think a beard is just hair growing on the wrong end of a head? If so, think again. In fact, your beard, gentlemen, is there to help increase your concentration and cognitive ability – it makes you a smarter thinker. (more…)

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#beard