Imag­ine you’re at the Yolo Coun­ty Fair in Sacra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia in the ear­ly 2000’s. You wan­der the fair­grounds inhal­ing the smells of cot­ton can­dy, the live­stock and chili dogs in […]

Stacked on a shelf at a Kroger gro­cery store, these avo­ca­dos look like any oth­er avo­ca­dos. But each fruit is coat­ed in an invis­i­ble, edi­ble, plant-based coat­ing that acts as […]

Fast Com­pa­ny‘s third annu­al World Chang­ing Ideas Awards drew near­ly 2,000 sub­mis­sions across 17 cat­e­gories. Fast Com­pa­ny edi­tors and reporters cre­at­ed lists of hon­or­able men­tions and final­ists, and then our pan­el of […]

It’s undoubt­ed­ly a blue-state bas­tion. But far from being a social­ist hell­hole, the Gold­en State is thriv­ing after years of malaise. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump loves bash­ing California—its “ridicu­lous” sanc­tu­ary cities, […]