Biobased Mattel toys, lion burgers & tiger tacos, biobased textiles at the Academy Awards, DOE & Bridgestone guayule rubber, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 7th

The bioeconomy is up and roaring with lion burgers and tiger tacos, but don’t worry, no animals are actually killed for the exotic meat. It’s Primeval Foods lab-grown, cultivated exotic meats that people would otherwise not get to consume. And if that’s not fun enough for you, check out Mattel’s new biobased, carbon neutral toys from the preschool houses and farm toys to recycling trucks and Matchbox Action Driver cars.

In today’s Digest, these ‘wild’ and fun innovations plus biobased textiles seen on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, news from famous Lenny Kravitz and Leonardo DiCaprio and their latest forays into the bioeconomy, and more.