7gen Bloc

For the past handful of years, the New York Times Magazine has published an annual theme issue called the Year in Ideas. In the latest issue, 15 of the 70 ideas, or fully 20% had to do with sustainability.

As the issue’s introduction notes, New York Times “editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in (their) nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months.”

Some of my favorites include:

• Airborne Wind Turbines
• Biodegradable Coffins
• Cardboard Bridge
• Criminal Recycling
• Fish-Flavored Fish
• Lightning Farms
• Smog-Eating Cement
• Telltale Food Wrapping
• And Wave Energy