2022 was the year when newspaper editors started to worry that they were depressing their readers with doom-and-gloom climate news, so many news outlets have started to run more stories about solutions to climate meltdown and environmental degradation to stop their readers from tuning out.
Some of these solutions were groundbreaking, some gimmicky. From plants grown on the moon to bycatch-avoiding fishing nets, Eco-Business highlights the sustainability innovations that gave humanity a bit of hope in a year that the Covid-19 pandemic eased but a war in Europe led to food shortages and a power crunch.
Lunar agriculture
Botanists from Queensland University of Technology are planning to grow plants on the Moon by 2025, an effort they say will help shore up food security as crops start to fail on Earth. A capsule containing seeds from selected hardy plants such as the Australian species known as ‘resurrection grass’, which can