Yosemite is spending $40 million to protect 1,800-year-old sequoias
Sequoia trees can live up to 3,000 years. Yosemite Park hosts many 1,800-year-old trees. When the park was created, the focus was first and foremost to show the magnificent trees to visitors. Now, Yosemite will invest $40 million to restore the natural habitat of the trees—replacing asphalt with Read More...
This app is betting on a future without banks
It looks like any other banking app, but SoFi Money aims to change banking as we know it. With a community based on memberships, SoFi not only offers peer-to-peer payments but also accepts mobile check deposits. The app strives to offer a financial hub that offers loans to members as Read More...
Listen to trees to “unself” yourself
Listening to nature helps you relax and connect with a bigger life around you. Listen to the sound of the wind in the leaves of a tree or to the sound of the rain. Different trees have different “voices” and trees sound different in different Read More...
Vitamin D may decrease breast cancer risk, study reports
Vitamin D is hailed as a wonder nutrient, capable of lowering a person's risk of different forms of cancer. Recent research now confirms that people with high enough levels of this vitamin in their blood have a significantly lower risk of breast Read More...
For just $5, you can now start a responsible investment portfolio
People interested in investing typically have two hurdles to clear: First, the learning curve associated with where their money might go and, perhaps more importantly, making sure they can afford it. For millennials, that’s increasingly an ever-more complex value question. Many only want to put Read More...
Coal plant waste helps build environmentally-friendly, cementless concrete
Concrete production is one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the world, after transportation and energy. To make the ubiquitous building material more environmentally friendly, the industry has been adding by-products from coal-fired power plants, but doing so had its own Read More...
Ford aims to revive a Detroit train station, and itself
For the past year, Ford Motor has been working on a plan to reinvigorate its operations and jump-start profit growth. Now, as that strategy is just being put into place, the automaker is taking on another big renovation project: the city of Detroit and the hulking remains of its dilapidated train Read More...
UK company launches crypto mining electric bicycle
50cycles, a specialist electric bicycle manufacturer, has revealed what it has described as the world’s first range of cryptocurrency mining e-bikes. Toba, the new series of crypto mining bikes, are estimated to generate approximately £20 (approximately $26.5 USD) worth of ‘Loyalcoin’ per Read More...
Advantage Africa: leapfrogging to cheap renewable electricity and microgrids
Most of Africa is still dark. Two-thirds of the people of the continent have no access to reliable electricity. The good news is that the fast development of the renewable energy technology makes it possible for Africa to leapfrog to a clean energy economy. The combination of solar and wind Read More...
London wants cleaner air, calls for earlier ban on gas and diesel cars
The mayor of London and other city leaders across Britain trying to improve the air quality in their cities think that the British government is not going far enough with a proposed ban of the sale of new diesel and gas cars from 2040 onwards. The city leaders argue that the ban should be brought Read More...