Victoria targets 40% renewables by 2025, will add 5.4 GW wind & solar
Victoria’s Andrews government says it will set a renewable energy target of 40 per cent by 2025, making it the latest state in Australia to introduce a target for large-scale renewables development more ambitious than that of the federal Turnbull government and underlining the political Read More...
Tata Power confirms $1.45 billion deal for India’s largest renewable energy buyout
Corporate filings made by Tata Power earlier this month have confirmed media reports that the company will undertake India’s largest ever renewable energy buyout. Tata Power, part of the Tata industrial conglomerate, has announced that it entered an agreement to acquire renewable energy Read More...
Social enterprise a practical solution in tight times
When Wrexham Council decided to close down the Plas Madoc Leisure Centre in 2014, members of the local community clubbed together to save what they saw was a “vital local landmark.” After applying for funding and writing to various groups for advice on how to set up a community trust, Read More...
Will work for equity: Platform offers talent to startups
Most startups need the best talent to launch successfully. And most startups don’t have enough funds to pay for that talent—and that jeopardizes their success potential. EquityOwl offers to solve that problem. The online platform links startups with professionals who believe in the project and Read More...
Full cycle: Turning plastic bottles and bags into fuel again
Most plastic is made from fossil fuels. Worldwide about 100 million tons is produced each year, and it ends up in landfills that pollute the environment or in oceans where it kills fish. Now scientists have come up with a new way to turn plastic waste into liquid fuel. It uses less energy than Read More...
Online learning offers refugees a first opportunity to enter their new world
Refugees face enormous challenges entering their new home countries. They need to learn a new language, and they have to make sure their skills fit legal and regulatory requirements. The US State Department is posing a solution through a partnership with online education platform Coursera that Read More...
Toyota to build artificial intelligence-based driving systems in five years
Toyota Motor Corp is targeting developing in the next five years driver assistance systems that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to improve vehicle safety, the head of its advanced research division said. Gill Pratt, CEO of recently set up Toyota Research Institute (TRI), the Japanese Read More...
Breathless in Paris as clean-air battle mounts in French capital
Paris will no longer take your breath away. Its monuments, avenues and restaurants might, of course, but Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pledging its pollution won’t. The city, host to the COP21 United Nations climate conference last year, will ensure the French capital’s air is cleaner and that Read More...
Can the $16 cup of Blue Bottle coffee help rebuild a country?
Blue Bottle Coffee has taken the Bay Area and Silicon Valley by storm, and affection for its brews spread from its flagship store at the Ferry Building in San Francisco to the East Coast and even as far as Tokyo. Visit any of its locations, and chances are the lines will be long. And of course the Read More...
Saiga antelope numbers rise after mass die-off
Last year, catastrophe hit saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan. About 200,000 of these critically endangered antelopes died in Betpak-Dala in May, deeply worrying conservationists. The deaths, scientists eventually found, were most likely caused by bacterial infection. But there may be hope for these Read More...