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Pritzker finalist, Asha de Vos, on BBC’s 100 Women 2018
Asha de Vos was named in the BBC 100 Women: 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2018. 23) Asha de Vos, 39 – Marine biologist, Sri Lanka.…
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Miranda Wang and BioCellection win 2018 Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators
24-year-old founder of BioCellection receives $100,000 award from UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
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My Journey to Create the Future of Plastic Recycling
Plastic pollution is a global crisis that results in wildlife entrapment, water and food contamination, and human health problems. Globally, only 9% of plastics produced are recycled; the rest is…
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A local hero for every coastline
What if the solution to our greatest ocean challenge was trapped in the mind of a person from the developing world? Why wouldn’t it be? After all 70% of our…
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Editing nature: Scientists call for careful oversight of environmental gene editing
Emma Marris is an environmental writer and an Institute Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Here, Marris writes about newly developed gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR might…
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Pritzker Finalist Asha de Vos highlighted in TED Fellows Salon ‘Women In Innovation’
Asha de Vos spoke at the “Women in Innovation” TED Salon in Bengaluru, India. At the end of the evening, the crowd of over 200, which included entrepreneurs, Marriott Rewards…