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Companies Saving The Planet (And Making A Ton Of Money Doing It)
Listening to the way conservatives like to talk up dirty, inefficient and old-fashioned industries, because of the money they can generate, you’d be forgiven for thinking that companies who make a positive impact on the world and run their businesses with the environment at the forefront of their priorities are unable to generate big money. These ten companies show that you can save the world and spin a huge profit while doing so.
1. Tesla
The world’s best known innovative company, headed perhaps unsurprisingly by the world’s best known innovator Elon Musk, is right at the forefront across a number of market sectors. First electric, and now increasingly automated vehicles make up a significant part of Tesla’s business, but its ventures into battery power and solar are equally impressive.
Puerto Rico endured one of the most destructive hurricanes to have rocked the Caribbean island in living memory earlier this year, with hundreds losing their lives and many, many more affected. Power outages on 90% of the island made the much needed clean up effort impossible to get underway. Enter, Elon Musk. Causing problems with the production of his own products in the process, Elon Musk had container loads of Powerwalls to the Carribean island, and had solar panels installed on a children’s hospital, getting it back up and running within days.
2. Memphis Meat
For those who haven’t yet seen Cowspiracy, or are otherwise unaware of the massive environmental toll that animal agriculture takes, here’s the thing; we need to massively reduce the amount of meat we consume. Or, at the very least, we need to massively reduce the amount of energy needed and the amount of waste produced in producing all that meat we love so much.
That’s where Memphis Meat come in. They use biotechnology, to take animal stem cells and eventually turn them into tasty, tasty muscle tissue – or meat – all in a lab. This process, if-perfected, could mean a new way of producing meat which doesn’t have anything like the number environmental issues or animal rights concerns as the current meat industry. Until now, they’ve released videos of their cultured Meatball, Chicken & Duck dishes, no word on Bacon yet!
The company expects to have products market-ready by 2021, and with the current costs of production coming in it around $2400 per pound, there’s a fair way to go to make Memphis Meat affordable. But, considering their original round of fundraising attracted over $17million worth of investment from the likes of Bill Gates and Richard Branson, there’s plenty of cause to have faith they’ll do it.
3. SolarWindow Technologies
In the fight against climate change, moving away from fossil fuels will be crucial, and Solar panels have and will likely continue to revolutionize the way we create power in a cleaner way, but they aren’t without limitations.
Like many other renewable energies, their critics pick fault with both efficacy and aesthetic – as though coal mines and power plants are so attractive.But SolarWindow – probably the solar industry’s most exciting company – manufactures see-through, electricity-generating windows to be installed in detached buildings. Their ultimate goal is to provide transparent solar windows for all of “America’s 85 million detached domestic and commercial buildings”.
The benefits of SolarWindow’s product are substantial; its purportedly 50x more efficient than rooftop solar and made from organic materials; it generates both energy and a financial reward for customers, and benefits the environment.
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