Applications are now being accepted for 2022 Switzer Fellowships! Learn more here
Leadership Story
Globally, we generate $120 billion of agricultural waste every year. What farmers cannot sell, they often burn, with catastrophic consequences for human health and the environment. Takachar has developed a cheap, small-scale, portable technology that attaches to tractors in remote farms. The award-winning machine converts crop residues into sellable bio-products like fuel and fertilizer, and reduces smoke emissions by up to 98%.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, December 15 2021
Location: Virtual
Foundation staff and recent fellows will share basic information about the fellowship and the Switzer Network, and there will be time for Q&A from applicants.
Switzer Network
Fellows in the News
Dec 1, 2021
Dustin Mulvaney is presenting a webinar on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2021 to the IEEE’s Santa Clara Valley Sustainability Chapter on Labor, Land, and Waste Across the Life Cycle of Solar Power.Read more >
Dec 1, 2021
This three-year project, dubbed Toxic Tides, is the first systematic look at the environmental justice ramifications of sea level rise and hazardous sites along the entire coast of California.Read more >
Nov 16, 2021
Millions of poultry died and thousands of pigs and their waste was washed into local waterways by the millions of gallons, with negative impacts for the health of environmental justice communities and local ecosystems.Read more >
Nov 11, 2021
The standard is the world’s first science-based certification of companies’ net-zero targets in line with the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping planetary warming to 1.5°C.Read more >
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