Crickets for Dinner Anyone? A Crazy, Yet Clever Idea from Students of McGill University

Published: 26 April 2013

Five students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Canada offered a rather innovative (read bizarre) solution to the challenge of the 2013 Hult Prize, considered by some...

Insect Cuisine Coming Soon to a Store Near You

Published: 6 February 2015

"Stinkbugs have an apple flavor, and red agave worms are spicy. A bite of tree worm apparently brings pork rinds to mind," reports National Geographic. "This information will come in handy for...

7 Reasons The World Isn't Totally Screwed Right Now

Published: 8 August 2014

If you've turned on the news lately, you may have gotten the sense that the world is falling apart. From rising body counts in Gaza and Israel to a plane getting shot down in Ukraine to increasing...

Fundraising For A Humanitarian Startup? Show VCs The Money

Published: 16 January 2017

A noticeable fraction of the thousands of startups I have looked at in the last seven years have made attacking a societal evil (e.g., hunger, homelessness, etc) a key part of why they exist. This...

Ottawa researcher hopes bugs can address global food insecurity

Published: 11 June 2014

Gabe Mott is spending the summer in Mexico, where the company he's part of is trying to figure out how to industrialize the production of insects — or micro-livestock — to address global food...

How to Breed a Tasty Cricket

Published: 25 September 2015

It’s hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate. The brush...

Hult Prize Accelerator Preps Competitors for $1m

Published: 15 August 2013

The problem: finding a high-quality source of protein for hundreds of millions of people that can be raised quickly, without consuming a lot of land, water, and other resources....

Desautels students head to 2015 Hult Prize regionals

Published: 16 February 2015

On March 13-14, McGill students Amanda Chalupa (MSc in Social & Transcultural Psychiatry), Alyssa Wiseman (MBA-Law), Attiya Hirji (BA in International Development), Lida Faridian (MBA) and...

Tepung Jangkrik yang Tinggi Protein Enak Diolah Jadi Cookies dan Cake

Published: 8 September 2014

Tahun lalu, tim mahasiswa MBA dari McGill University Kanada memenangkan $1 juta (Rp 11,8 miliar) dari kompetisi Hult Prize. Mereka berhasil menciptakan 'power flour', yakni tepung lokal (gandum,...

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