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Press release from College of Charleston:
March 21, 2022Sam Norton '16 (M.S. '21) was waiting tables at a local restaurant when he first heard about using salt-tolerant plants to make sustainable aviation fuel. He was intrigued that the same salt-tolerant plants he pulled from marshes and ate as a child could also benefit the environment – and soon he was consumed by the idea of a new business venture built upon the seawater agriculture and this succulent halophyte.
"One thing that you hear from a lot of entrepreneurs is they have an idea that they can't not do. This was one of those ideas that I kept thinking about and I had to get it down on paper and try to make it exist in real life," says Norton. "And that was when I came back to Charleston and said, 'I'm going to do this; I'm going to apply to grad school, start a business and see what happens.'"
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