Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 15: Life on Land

EarthHacks is an innovation-focused event where students from all majors develop solutions to real-world environmental challenges. Multidisciplinary teams will have 24 hours to learn from mentors, brainstorm, and generate solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Depending upon the problem, proposed solutions can involve hardware, software, art, text, and other materials.

Earthshot Labs an open-source community, public benefit technology company, and sustainable asset manager. We are developing the first open-source unified land use model for landowners, investors, and policy makers to scale regenerative land management globally.

FarmBot is an open source precision agriculture CNC farming project consisting of a Cartesian coordinate robot farming machine, software and documentation including a farming data repository. The project aims to create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone.

Matter is an innovation company pioneering technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics. Our mission is to stop microplastic pollution at source at domestic, commercial and industrial levels.

Powering the intelligent and sustainable enterprise. Optimize sustainable sourcing best practices, commodity price forecasting, and mineral exploration through the automated analysis of geospatial data.

OSBeehives is on a mission to technify the beekeeping industry by building a global network of beekeepers and identifying causes and solutions for colony health deterioration. This mission is founded on the principles of citizen science, open data, and collaboration between beekeepers.

Conservation X Labs applies technology, entrepreneurship, and open innovation to source, develop, and scale critical solutions to the underlying drivers of human-induced extinction. CXL focuses on conservation. We believe this approach – one that addresses the direct drivers of extinction, and one that takes a revolutionary over evolutionary approach – is the future of conservation.

Greenstand is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization developing open-source technology to address climate change and alleviate poverty through digitizing environmental goods and services. Our Treetracker app verifies and tracks individual trees, thus creating transparency in the reforestation sphere. Organizations and donors can locate individual trees and trade their ecological impact.

Farm(x) is the first all-in-one platform to manage irrigation, fertilization & yield. We're the only company that combines five data sources: soil conditions, plant health, weather, frost, and imaging. Then, our machine learning platform suggests irrigation schedules, optimizes water and fertilizer in the root zone, helps predict crop yield, and correctly alerts you to frost.

Noya is on a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to carbon negativity. Founded in 2020 by CEO Josh Santos and CTO Daniel Cavero, with a goal to ensure a healthy planet for generations to come, Noya has developed a scalable, cost-effective Direct Air Capture approach using abundant materials.