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Project Overview
Biosolar Leaves are a revolutionary system of algae implanted panels that help reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, while producing sustainable food ingredients in the process.
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Project Context
We all love food, but while our population is growing, Earth’s limited natural food resources are strained by climate change, leading to the current increase in global hunger, malnutrition. and food prices.
Arborea's mission is to accelerate the global transition to sustainable food by producing the most sustainable and best healthy food ingredients through the most advanced organic cultivation system, driven by nature’s power.
Project Innovation
Arborea have found a way to finally produce clean and healthy food while harmonizing with Earth’s regulatory carbon-cycles on a massive scale.
Arborea’s team have developed the world’s first “BioSolar Leaf” cultivation system which harnesses natural photosynthesis in a completely new way.
Thanks to sunlight, this technology facilitates the growth of microscopic plants to produce healthy food ingredients, all while generating breathable oxygen and sequestrating high amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), a major contributor to climate change.
Micro plants such as blue-green algae and phytoplankton, are some of the most important organisms in the history of our planet. They are behind the original buildup of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere while constituting the fundamental base of life’s intricate food web. They already provide food to trillions of animals.
Their cells contain thousands of highly nutritious food molecules which haven’t been processed by other organisms, therefore maintaining high digeribility and pristine nutritional properties. Micro plants offer an enormous amount of quality proteins, vitamins, powerful antioxidants, minerals, essential fatty acids and phytonutrients.
This food is wholly Vegan, GM-free, hormone-free, and the Biosolar Leaf technology allows for completely sterile cultivation, eliminating external contamination to produce the cleanest and purest ingredients.
Social and Community-Oriented Design - Systems
Social design applies a design methodology and intervention to tighten the social fabric that holds us together. Addressing issues of social inequality, such as poverty or social isolation, social design is the pathway to a more just and sustainable society. Community-oriented design is a human-centered and participatory design practice that emphasises the betterment of local communities through the improvement of public facilities, equipment, identity and experience.
All systems are designed to serve a purpose – and that purpose is to serve people. Systems design optimises systems performance by systematically focusing on the human component - human capacities, abilities, limitations and aspirations.
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