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Regenesis’s below-ground PFAS filters are a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
PFAS contamination is becoming a crisis. According to one study, more than 57,000 locations across the U.S. are likely contaminated with the so-called forever chemicals, which are both toxic and long-lasting. When PFAS get into the soil, they contaminate the environment but also leach into the groundwater, eventually making their way into our drinking water systems.
The Global Gateway Program, from Automation Anywhere and Robo Co-Op, is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Around the world, there are more than 100 million refugees who were forced to flee their homes because of violence, persecution, climate change, and more. Being displaced comes with a slew of challenges, of course, like finding work—made even more difficult by a language barrier or a mismatch in employment skills.
TurtleTree’s animal-free lactoferrin is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Fengru Lin, cofounder and CEO of Singapore biotech company TurtleTree, wants to find a more sustainable way to make milk. But she knows that lab-grown milks can’t compete with cow’s milk when it comes to price (at least not yet). Instead, she chose to focus on milk’s high-value ingredients, beginning with lactoferrin, a functional milk protein linked to iron absorption, protection...
For its work on using AI to address climate change, Google is Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Company of the Year.
As the use of artificial intelligence grows, there’s a risk that it could boost emissions as it drives up demand for energy at data centers. But AI also has the potential to help find new ways to shrink humanity’s giant carbon footprint. At Google, research teams are working on more than 20 AI tools to fight climate change and deal with impacts like flooding and wildfires.
Plug Inn, from Renault and Publicis Sapient, is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
In the tiny French village of Guessling-Heméring, there aren’t any public EV chargers. But if you’re driving an electric car through the area, you can use an app to book time with a private charger at someone’s home.
Google’s work using AI to reduce contrails is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
The thin clouds that streak behind airplanes, called contrails, are a sizable source of global warming, responsible for more than a third of aviation’s climate impact. But slightly changing a plane’s flight path can help avoid the phenomenon, which happens when hot exhaust mixes with cold, humid air.
The United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Right now, sustainable aviation fuel, or alternative jet fuel made from nonfossil sources, powers less than 0.1% of planes in the U.S. That’s both because there’s so little of it available and because it’s expensive. But a fund launched by United Airlines is working to quickly scale up the tiny SAF industry.
Holcim’s Recygénie is the world’s first building to use 100% recycled concrete. It’s a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
When a group of aging apartment buildings from the 1960s were recently torn down outside Paris, the demolition waste wasn’t thrown out. Instead, it was reused for two of the seven buildings in a new 220-unit housing complex now under construction on the same site.
Fourth Power’s energy-storing technology is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Inside a lab near Boston, big blocks of carbon—each six feet long, two feet tall, and weighing more than a ton—will soon be stacked into a system that will heat them up to a glowing-hot 4,350 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a demo of new technology designed to dramatically cut the cost of storing renewable energy.
Amped Innovation’s EasyFreeze fridge is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
If you live in Lagos, Nigeria, your power might go out for hours at a time on a typical day. A standard refrigerator obviously won’t work well, and few residents own one. But a startup designed a new solar fridge with a battery to work on an unreliable grid like Nigeria’s. It can also work completely off the grid.
Baby2Baby’s response to the Maui wildfires is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Last summer’s Maui wildfires were the fifth deadliest in U.S. history, claiming at least 115 lives and displacing thousands. As various humanitarian organizations mobilized to support communities, one in particular served an often overlooked demographic during disasters: babies.
Congress em Foco and AQKA’s Transparency Card is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Shortly before Brazil’s 2022 general election, 69% of the public believed government corruption was widespread.
Niue’s Ocean Conservation Commitments is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Sponsoring an endangered animal has long been a way for people to contribute to the conservation of at-risk species like tigers and pandas. Now, a program is encouraging the public to sponsor parcels of endangered ocean.
See the finalists and honorable mentions in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards in the transportation category.
The transportation category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors projects that make driving, biking, or flying more accessible or sustainable, or find new ways to deliver goods and services. This year’s winner is Plug Inn from Renault and Publicis Sapient. The peer-to-peer app connects EV drivers to nearby homes with chargers, helping to reduce...
See the full list of winners and honorable mentions in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards in the finance category.
The finance category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors innovative funds, mission-driven products, and creative initiatives that make finance more equitable and accessible. This year’s winner, Esusu, is a program that helps renters build their credit rating, transforming them from credit-invisible to creditworthy. Read more about their...
See the full list of honorees in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards in the energy category.
The energy category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors renewable energy projects, new battery technology, and any other creative solution for clean power and better electricity distribution. This year’s winner is a thermal battery from Fourth Power, which could ultimately be 10 times cheaper than traditional lithium-ion batteries and store power for as long as a...
See the full list of honorees in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards in the architecture category.
The architecture category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors buildings that have a positive impact, whether through sustainability, energy efficiency, or accessibility. The 2024 winner, Step(1) Housing, from the Office of Charles F. Bloszies, is a Bay Area housing development that takes advantage of the speed of modular building without sacrificing the comfort...
Thrive’s Just Budget Algorithm is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
School districts have large budgets but sometimes choose to spend that money in the wrong places. Across public schools, there are huge disparities in achievement, attendance, and discipline—especially with respect to race. And these can perpetuate cycles of poverty.
Rogers-O’Brien Construction’s rollout of VigiLife’s SafeGuard is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
In 2022, nearly 300 people died of heat-related illnesses in Texas, the most in two decades. Yet the following year, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that prevented local governments from setting mandatory rest or water breaks for outdoor workers. Ross Daly, director of safety at Rogers-O’Brien Construction, a Dallas-based general contractor, says he has...
See the full list of honorees of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards in the advertising category.
The advertising category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors campaigns designed to draw attention to social issues or initiatives that push to create the change themselves. This year’s winner, Microsoft and McCann Worldgroup, worked with two brothers from Guinea to digitize the ADLaM alphabet that they’d created for their native Pulaar language. This new...