8 under-30 entrepreneurs making a difference in food, farming and the environment
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Forbes has just released its annual series of 30 Under 30 lists and, naturally, some of the great young minds making a difference in farming, food and the environment made the cut. Have a look at who made this year’s list and the influential work they're doing.
A number of prominent tech investors have injected hundreds of millions of dollars into Mehta’s grocery delivery startup, which employs personal shoppers to fulfill grocery orders that users make online. Photo credit: Instacart
By taking excess food from colleges and universities and donating it to hungry Americans, the Food Recovery Network is playing a key role in reducing food waste and addressing hunger issues. The organization, which Simon founded as a student at University of Maryland, College Park, hopes to have a presence on 150 campuses by this summer. Photo credit: @FoodRecoveryNetwork
These college roommates grew an impressive indoor garden in their MIT fraternity house and turned it into a business. The idea is to give everyone access to a "living ecosystem" to grow own fruits and vegetables at home. Grove Labs has raised more than $2 million in funding and plans to ship its first orders in February. Photo credit: Grove Labs on Facebook
Known on social media as Against All Grain, Walker has penned two New York Times best-selling cookbooks based on a grain-, lactose- and legume-free diet. She's a well-known face in the paleo social media community; her blog and social media accounts get more than 2 million views a month. Photo credit: @AgainstAllGrain
Zajonc, who’s worked at Facebook and Stanford University, is now CEO of Local Food Lab, which has helped more than 75 food and farm entrepreneurs grow their businesses with an accelerator program, a startup bootcamp, a business network and online tools. Photo credit: Local Food Lab
The nonprofit that Bowen co-founded helps poor, rural farmers in Guatemala prosper through a variety of tools, including experimentation, training, advocacy and technology development. Photo credit: Semilla Nueva website
Coffey has traveled the world visiting ocean farmers, activists and fishermen and is helping Greenwave scale a 3D ocean farm that’s designed to restore the ocean while producing sea vegetables and shellfish using fewer resources. Photo credit: @bmcoffey
In search of a more efficient, sustainable source of food, engineer Rhinehart developed a powdered mixture of vitamins and minerals. Then he turned himself into a human science experiment by drinking only his Soylent mixture for 30 days. He has called it "the most simplistic thing we could live on." Photo credit: Soylent
In search of a more efficient, sustainable source of food, engineer Rhinehart developed a powdered mixture of vitamins and minerals. Then he turned himself into a human science experiment by drinking only his Soylent mixture for 30 days. He has called it "the most simplistic thing we could live on." Photo credit: Soylent
8 under-30 entrepreneurs making a difference in food, farming and the environment
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