How to leverage storytelling to fight climate change
Ocean Culture Life is a thousands-strong community working to protect our oceans. Its leaders Matt Porteous and Tamsin Raine ran a workshop at 🔥THE HEAT on how to use storytelling to fight climate change.
How to fight climate change: laugh at it
Stuart Goldsmith struggled to process his own ‘climate dread’, so he started writing jokes about it. Can the planetary crisis really be a laughing matter? Stuart’s set at 🔥THE HEAT 2024 suggested it can.
A one-stop satellite shop with customers across the planet
Harwell-based startup Open Cosmos lets you launch satellites to track climate-related data — from deforestation to coastal erosion. It brought models of its satellites and a demo showing use cases of its product DataCosmos to 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
The company growing real animal fat without any animals
Hoxton Farms grows real animal fat to ensure that plant-based meats taste as authentic as possible. At 🔥THE HEAT 2024, they offered participants the chance to win a meal cooked by a Michelin-starred chef made with their lab-grown fat.
Why ARIA – the UK’s DARPA – brought “moonshot” science to 🔥THE HEAT
The UK government’s new agency ARIA, modelled on DARPA, is backing “moonshots” to save the planet. At 🔥THE HEAT 2024, its leaders shared their bold approach.
Tasting the future of food at 🔥THE HEAT
Participants at 🔥THE HEAT were able to sample a wide variety of future foods – thanks to our future-food curator Daniel Skavén Ruben, who organised the festival’s future-food exhibition.
How one startup is fighting climate change using solar panels in space
Space Solar is on a mission to fight climate change using solar power from space, and brought its prototype transmitter to 🔥THE HEAT for its first ever demo.
Why Olio helped the VOYAGERS climate festival avoid food waste
🔥 THE HEAT was almost entirely free of food waste – thanks to our partner Olio, which redistributed any food that went uneaten at the festival.
The VOYAGERS climate festival where drinks were served in edible cups
Participants at THE HEAT were able to enjoy drinks served in edible pouches – thanks to our friends at Notpla, who brought their product Ooho to the festival.
How 🔥THE HEAT 2024 captured carbon in a field
THE HEAT brought carbon capture to a field in Oxfordshire – thanks to our partner CyanoCapture, who brought a photobioreactor to show how much CO2 was being captured in real time.
