Tabitha A. Scott

A fresh year, a fresh chapter.
Wishing everyone health, insight, and meaningful progress in the year ahead.

Would nature help us solve a problem we created? In a Swedish pilot, wild crows learned to exchange cigarette butts for food via a simple vending-machine device, helping reduce a persistent litter problem at scale. It’s an early stage experiment, but it opens a thoughtful dialogue about how we might co-design solutions with intelligent species without diminishing their well-being or autonomy.



Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/01/swedish-crows-pick-up-cigarette-butts-litter

Sometimes innovation comes from the simplest idea, paying attention to what nature is already offering.
Carvey Maigue’s breakthrough turns food waste into colorful panels that capture UV light and convert it into electricity, even on cloudy days.

It fits into windows, walls, and everyday structures without needing extra land or large installations.
A reminder that meaningful progress often comes from creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to see possibility where others see discard.

Switzerland’s rail-based solar arrays highlight something essential about modern infrastructure:
The solutions we need may already be hidden in the systems we use every day.

By turning unused track space into productive solar surfaces, engineers unlock new energy capacity without land conflict, without community disruption, and without slowing rail service.

It’s a small footprint with a large systems impact, exactly how regenerative innovation works.