PROGRAMS
The Green and Blue Innovation Agenda
Resources for catalysts and entrepreneurs on the frontlines of sustainable innovation and market solutions that address air, land, and water environmental challenges
Our Innovation Agenda
The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things and expect different results.
Source: U.S. Department of Energy
1) Promote Investment in basic environmental R&D to continue to build understanding of atmospheric, oceanic, earth, solar and other fundamental environmental building blocks
2) Strengthen Academic - Private - Public Relations to overcome "the first valley" between basic research and applied research.
3) Showcase Breakthroughs and overcome "the second valley" between applied research, pilots and demos and scalability.
Featured Changemakers
Newlight Technologies
From greenhouse gas to regenerative materials
After ten years, the startup has created AirCarbon via a process that uses microorganisms from the ocean to transform air and carbon dioxide into biomaterials that can be
Food isn't trash
Mill tackles the global food waste problem with their membership program that provies subscribers with a kitchen bin that collects food scraps, then dries, shrinks, and de-stinks
Building the largest network of EV chargers in India
The EV market in India is projected to reach $46B by 2026, leaving a huge demand for charging. Statiq is providing a solution to this by
2023 Report:
Blue Economy Trends, Opportunities, and Recommendations
On March 22, 2023, ISD and SACC-USA released a report analyzing the value, growth, and opportunities of more than fifteen maritime industries.
Read more here.
Photo Gallery
As a member of the Global Green Innovation Collaborative, ISD hosted the Collaborative's inaugural Business-Academia Working Conference, "Building the Green Innovation Pipeline," in June 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden. Photos courtesy of Wings PR.
ISD and SACC-USA released their blue economy report, "Building the Blue Innovation Pipeline: Lessons Learned from the United States and Sweden," at a press conference in Stockholm on March 22, 2023. Photos courtesy of Hampus Knutsson.
ISD and SACC-USA hosted "The Power and Promise of the Blue Economy" in November 2022, where Kind Designs won the inaugural Hummeltorp Evolution Award for their 3D-printed seawall technology. Photos courtesy of SACC-USA.
Stephen Jordan, ISD CEO, and Christer Otterström, Hummeltorp Sverige A.B. CEO, engage in a fireside chat about recycling at the June 2022 SACC-USA Executive Forum,"Navigating Turbulent Waters." Photos courtesy of SACC-USA.