If you live at a dis­tance from farm coun­try, agri­cul­ture might seem like an unchang­ing indus­try, built around tra­di­tion­al meth­ods and rel­a­tive­ly low-tech tools. Even a Google Image search pri­mar­i­ly […]

Bill Leni­han is the Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, Zola Elec­tric, an Amer­i­can renew­able ener­gy firm. In this inter­view, he explains the need to apply renew­able ener­gy, which is becom­ing a major […]

{…} Pio­neers in renew­able ener­gy have not had it easy.  Many of their ideas seem at first far­fetched and unre­al­is­tic.  How­ev­er, to solve big pro­grams like those fac­ing our pow­er […]

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 […]