Innovate for a Greener, Smarter Future! 🌱 🚀 Two weeks in July, I participated in the Global Challenge Lab 2024, an entrepreneurial virtual program organized by Futurize in cooperation with Imperial Enterprise Lab, Tsinghua University x-lab and Technische Universität München. 🏆 Together with my team Tetyana Shafranovych and Avik Gupta, I worked on an idea to integrate climate resilience into the cities of tomorrow. With our idea LIMU we ranked amongst the top 6 out of 111 teams. 💡 What is LIMU? LIMU means algae in Hawaiian, and it has incredible super powers. Algae are much more efficient at capturing CO2 than trees. LIMU is a panel filled with algae and water that enables carbon capture. It can be installed almost anywhere - lower walls, facades or roofs of commercial buildings. 🏙️ The panels also provide insulation, which can save energy costs. 💨 Algae in the panels can be harvested around once a month and used by other industries. For example, algae can be used as biofuel, supplements (contains many important nutrients), cattle food (cows produce 40% less methane when eating algae) or cosmetics. 🪸 Additionally, the green color of the algae panels has a positive effect on wellbeing. With LIMU, we leverage the ocean‘s powerhouse for a more sustainable future. 🌱 💬 What do you think about our idea? I would be happy to read about it in the comments. #gcl24 #ClimateAction #SmartCities #Entrepreneurship #Algae #CarbonCapture
Kristina G. thanks for being such a wonderful teammate! I know it was only two weeks but it certainly felt like we knew each other for a lot longer. I couldn't have asked for a better team and hopefully we can collaborate again in the future!
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3moKristina G. it was such a pleasure being your mentor. I love the idea of Limu - congrats on making the final 6 - well deserved 👏