The nature category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors projects supporting conservation, increasing biodiversity, reforestation, protecting threatened animals and ecosystems, or otherwise helping to solve nature-based issues. See the finalists and honorable mentions below, and read about the winner, how healthy bacteria could protect coral reefs from climate change.
Finalists
Cispatá Blue Carbon Project, Conservation International
Green Boom, Green Boom
Irrecoverable Carbon Global Map, Conservation International
Pacific Island Tuna, Pacific Island Tuna
Phytoremediation Program, Arbor Day Foundation
Proteus, Proteus Ocean Group
Rainforest Deforestation Tracking, SAS
ReefCloud, Accenture and Australian Institute of Marine Science
RNA-based Varroa Destructor Mite Insecticide, GreenLight Biosciences
Restor, Google, Restor, Crowther Labs
Woolly Mammoth De-extinction Project, Colossal
Honorable Mentions
Code of Conscience, AKQA
Natural Capital Exchange, NCX
NEAT, Sudoc
Restoration Hydro Fish Passage Laboratory, Natel Energy
The R.A.N.C.H. Project’s Million Member Regenerative Food Forest, Ancient Nutrition
Regenerative Wool Accessories Collection, Allbirds
Supplant, The Supplant Company
Veritree, Veritree
Recognize your brand’s excellence by applying to this year’s Brands That Matter Awards before the early-rate deadline, May 3.
