Could this be the solution to plastic packaging?
Wrapping something as perishable as food in something as indestructible as plastic makes no sense at all. Changing the way we package our food is a dire need, but fortunately, one company has already come up with a solution. By utilizing plant materials, the company has created a packaging that is Read More...
Burlington and San Francisco are trailblazing the path to 100 percent renewable
If we are to effectively combat climate change, cities have to make bold moves that will shape the future. Take Burlington, Vermont and San Francisco, California for example. Burlington began its transition to a net-zero economy back in 1978 when it replaced its coal plant with a power station Read More...
A stock exchange that rewards long-term thinking may soon be fully operational
Tired with the short-term thinking of Wall Street, a group of entrepreneurs are applying to operate a whole new US stock exchange called the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE). The ambitious project aims to overhaul how companies raise money and bring about better corporate governance by introducing Read More...
Want to remember moments better? Don’t take pictures
The ironic thing about our obsessive desire to document everything we experience is that our brains are unable to recall events clearly when we’re busy taking photos. In fact, one study on memory and photography found that when museum-goers took pictures of exhibits, they were less likely to Read More...
The world added nearly 30 percent more solar energy capacity in 2017
The global solar market grew 29.3 percent last year, with nations installing 98.9 gigawatts of new capacity, according to data from the industry group SolarPower Europe. While more capacity was installed in 2017, the global growth rate slowed last year, down from 49 percent in Read More...
The biggest solar parks in the world are now being built in India
Weeds poke listlessly from the flat, rocky earth as the temperature climbs to the mid-90s. On a cloudless March afternoon, the blue horizon stretches out uninterrupted, as if even birds are too weary to fly. On this unforgiving patch of southern India, millions of silver-gray panels glimmer in the Read More...
How your next meal could help fight depression and stress
Do you find that food deeply affects your mood? Science is beginning to back up such gut feelings. The link between poor diet and mood disorders has been long known, but what has been less clear is the direction of causality. When we're depressed, we tend to reach for lower-quality comfort foods, Read More...
This father-daughter team says it has a cheaper, safer way to bury nuclear waste
Startup Deep Isolation wants to use fracking tech to drill horizontal disposal tunnels a mile below the Earth’s Read More...
How to stop re-creating your past and finally break free
Learn 3-steps to change the expectations you have that are keeping you Read More...
CEO pay: A movement is building to force companies to share their wealth
Many CEOs in the U.S. make a 1,000 times more money than the average employee in their companies. Unfortunately, that’s not a new phenomenon. But it is new that there is a federal regulation that requires publicly traded U.S. corporations to disclose how much their chief executives are making Read More...