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Shooting For the Moon at X, The Moonshot Factory 🚀
May 15, 2025

Shooting For the Moon at X, The Moonshot Factory 🚀

What if we had a crystal ball for natural disasters? What if we could close the loop on plastic waste? What if we had a detailed operating manual for every single type of plant? These are the kinds of seemingly impossible challenges that X, The Moonshot Factory, embraces. Comprised of innovators, scientists, engineers and more, their mission is to invent breakthrough solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems. Read on to learn how X is using tech to fight back against the climate crisis, and how robots might be our newest climate ally. 🤖 Also, tune in for their hot new podcast for a deeper dive behind the scenes of some of their most innovative projects!

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Building a more sustainable future one Kubik at a time 🏗️
Jan 30, 2025

Building a more sustainable future one Kubik at a time 🏗️

Welcome back to Pique Behind The Curtain! This week, we’re highlighting an episode from Reinventing Tomorrow to check out Kubik – a company turning recycled plastic waste into homes and community centers. Based in Ethiopia, Kubik is making building practices more sustainable, fighting for affordable housing, creating dignified jobs, AND cutting back on plastic waste... all at once. Keep reading to hear more! 🚧

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Let’s Go Full Circle! Increasing a Circular Economy🌀
Nov 20, 2024

Let’s Go Full Circle! Increasing a Circular Economy🌀

Circularity, a buzz word or the solution to the billions of tons of plastic waste swallowing our planet? We need a transformative approach to help solve this, enter: molecular recycling. This is what Rey Banatao and his team at Google’s X - The Moonshot Factory are working on. The final episode of Where the Internet Lives is out now! Keep reading to hear about how data and AI are helping to drive a more circular economy 🌀

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