a portfolio combining journalistic outputs, presented in the format appropriate to
platform/genre, with a total length of about 4000 words (or equivalent for audio/video material) and a
2000-word reflective report in essay format.
Your portfolio must consist of:
• 5 x news diary entries
• ...
The Takeover of Artificial Food – 12/10/21 – 242 words
Billionaire investor Jim Mellon predicts the cultivated meat industry is coming to a bleak end
as artificial food companies show exponential profits.
In an exclusive interview with VegNews, Jim Mellon (billionaire investor) explained “It’s an
industry that’s in terminal decline.” In this highly regarded book, Moo's Law: An Investor’s
Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution, Jim Mellon writes, “Once price parity with
conventional meats is reached, there will be no turning back, this is Moo’s Law.”
A 2018 study produced by comparethemarket.com concluded that approximately 7 percent of
British residents were vegan, and 14 percent were vegetarian. With the number of vegetarians
and vegans increasing year on year (40 percent in 2021), is it only a matter of time before the
Great British burger is gone forever?
In 2013 the first ever lab grown burger was created, and since then various companies have
joined the revolution with the likes of Nestle, Aleph Farms, and McDonalds all getting a cut
in 2021.
This year more than $300 billion has been capitalised into the artificial food sector with
Agronomics leading as the UK’s top listed alternative proteins company. They are focused on
cellular agriculture and cultivated meat but certainly are not devoted to one subset of artificial
flavour. Agronomics now have a large plethora of companies in their portfolio having
partnerships with CellX and Solar Foods. Now Agronomics seek to dominate the vegan
industry with a variety of options including seafood and artificial leather.
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, Cooling the Climate with Heat Pumps – 21/10/21 – 266 words
A third of the world’s population will need some kind of cooling and heating system during
the year, but growing power demands prove detrimental to the climate.
The International Energy Agency has released a heat map of areas around the globe that
needed indoor cooling to stay comfortable. The study also charted this into the future with
some frightening predictions.
In 2019 Seattle saw record temperatures in the winter months with the mercury rising to 26
degrees Celsius, causing a local shortage of air conditioning units around the city. The city
was the least conditioned area in the USA and the residents paid a heavy price for that. The
world is now on the brink of a massive boom in demand for air conditioning, with 2 billion
units being sold this year and an estimated 5.6 billion predicted to be sold in 2050. However,
more air conditioning means more electricity, and subsequently more emissions that warm
the planet. This increase need to cool our homes could be a prime opportunity to think about
how we go about heating them too. The answer may lie in a device, unfortunately named, the
heat pump.
Michael Thomas, founder of the research group Carbon Switch says, “A heat pump not only
heats a home, but it also cools one.” He also went on to explain “Heat pumps are one of the
most important climate solutions we have,” this is because residential, public, and
commercial buildings make up almost a third of CO2 emissions, according to the
International Energy Agency. Heating is responsible for 45 percent of those given emissions
worldwide.
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