Want to help save the world? Eat more insects

Using his perspective as a water resource planner, Pat Crowley launched the U.S.’s first insect protein nutritional company, Chapul, as a way to create a consumer pull-through demand for the sustainable insect farming industry. He went from selling hand-made energy bars fortified with cricket flour to securing an investment from billionaire Mark Cuban on the hit show, Shark Tank. As Pat’s vision for the insect farming industry comes to fruition, he has developed one of the world’s largest zero-waste solar powered insect farms that converts agricultural waste into insect protein and organic bio-fertilizer.