Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth

In California, the company Newlight Technologies is capturing methane emissions from dairy cows, turning them into bioplastic and making products—such as bottles and office chairs—which have been independently verified as carbon-negative, sequestering greenhouse gas emissions across their entire life cycle.29 In the arid coastal lands of South Australia, Sundrop Farms is using seawater and sunlight to grow tomatoes and capsicums. Its state-of-the-art greenhouses harness solar energy to desalinate the saltwater, create heat and generate electricity, all used to grow the crops. ‘We’re not just addressing an energy issue or a water issue,’ says Philipp Saumweber, Sundrop’s CEO. ‘We are addressing both of those together to produce food from abundant resources, and to do that in a sustainable way.’