Exploring Algae Technology With Professor Isaac Berzin
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Numerous space-age technologies are currently changing how people eat and nourish themselves while using fewer resources. One of these innovations is algae technology. In this episode, Corinna Bellizzi explores this cutting-edge technology with Professor Isaac Berzin, an affiliate scientist at MIT and Founder/CTO of Vaxa Technologies. Together, they discuss how algae technology contributes to producing healthier food alternatives and reducing carbon emissions. Professor Berzin also explains how they are scaling this approach to reach more regions and become more accessible to every household.
About Guest:
Founder & CTO of Vaxa Technologies, Professor Isaac Berzin was named one the 100 most influential people by Time Magazine for his work in sustainability and climate change, Isaac is an Affiliated Scientist at MIT, where he worked on a NASA sponsored project, developing bioreactors for the International Space Station. His innovative work in GreenFuel Technologies has won numerous awards including the Frost and Sullivan Award (2006), Platts Global Energy Award (2006) and American Society of Competitiveness (ASC) Awards 2005, 2006, 2007. Isaac holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology from Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | some algae have affinity to all kinds of contaminants, like heavy metals. |
| 0:05.0 | So they accumulate heavy metals from the environment and keep it in their body, |
| 0:09.8 | sometimes 60x more from the relative to the environment they live in. |
| 0:15.3 | So they're becoming a contamination bombs, okay? |
| 0:18.6 | So it's not only that they magnify the contamination. |
| 0:21.5 | So to your point, yes, even if the contamination is mild, in the algae, it can be horrific. |
| 0:27.9 | So 100% using pristine water in a closed system that you know everything that's coming in, |
| 0:33.3 | what's coming out, and you make sure it's clean, a nice, huge comfort zone. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social |
| 0:42.9 | impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:46.8 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:52.0 | You'll learn how you can make a difference. Vote with your dollars and get involved today. |
| 0:56.8 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 1:02.1 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 1:06.8 | Today, in a continuation from last week's theme, |
| 1:09.4 | where we discussed climate optimism from the |
| 1:12.1 | perspective of ongoing green projects and how we might fund them, we're going to dive into |
| 1:18.0 | space age technologies that can help us nourish populations for generations to come, all while |
| 1:24.9 | using 99% less land and water resources than other food sources. This may sound |
| 1:31.2 | unbelievable, but the reality is this technology exists today. And nutrition products are already |
| 1:38.5 | available as a result of this tech here in the United States, in Iceland, in Israel, and in other markets around the globe, |
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