Apr · 4 weeks
🌍 Earth Month
In April we celebrate innovators using technology to clean the oceans and power the planet.
Innovator of the week
Week 1
Boyan Slat
Founded The Ocean Cleanup at 18 to pull plastic out of the ocean
Dutch (born in Delft, Netherlands)
Week 2Michael Grätzel
Invented a solar cell that copies how a leaf catches sunlight
Swiss (born in Germany)
Week 3Jigar Shah
Made solar affordable by changing how it is paid for, not how it is built
Indian American (born in India, raised in Illinois)
Week 4John B. Goodenough
Invented the cathode that made lithium-ion batteries light, powerful, and everywhere
American (born in Jena, Germany, to American parents)