Walmart doubles down on renewable energy with wind deal
Walmart WMT is taking a big step toward fulfilling its long-term ambition of being wholly supplied by renewable energy with a new deal to buy more than half of the electricity generated by a new wind power facility in Texas for the next ten years. The world’s largest company will buy 58% of Read More...
How investors plan to make money in renewable energy
Renewable energy is going through a boom as big banks, private equity funds, and people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet invest billions of dollars in solar and wind technology. But by the end of next year, a federal initiative that gives residents and businesses a 30% tax credit for installing Read More...
Elon Musk: Fully autonomous cars with 1,000km electric range are coming in 2017
Elon Musk believes Tesla cars will be fully autonomous by 2018, and have an all-electric range of more than 1,000km, double what it is today. He also predicts that by 2035 all new cars will not require a driver. A renowned futurist and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Musk predicts that the range of the Read More...
MacArthur 'genius' grant winner creates artificial leaves that photosynthesize
It took nature millions of years to figure out how to turn energy from the sun into chemical energy that can be stored for a cloudy day - a process known as photosynthesis. It took Peidong Yang, a chemist at UC Berkeley, about 10 years to accomplish a similar feat with the help of Read More...
Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg pledges free internet to all UN refugee camps
As the refugee crisis continues to divide families and communities across Europe and the Middle East, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg is doing his "share" to help migrants stay connected. At a UN forum in New York on Saturday, Zuckerburg made a pledge to bring the internet to all UN refugee camps. Read More...
Tesla may share supercharger access with other car manufacturers
Tesla is willing to partner with other car brands to share their superchargers which charge much faster than other charges. This way, more electric cars could enter the mainstream. After all, potential buyers of more affordable electric car brands may be more willing to buy if it came with the Read More...
Playing video games can be good for your health
Worldwide, we spend 1.75 billion minutes a day playing Candy Crash. There must be something better to do with that time, right? That may be so, but as with anything in life, it's really a matter of perception. When people play games, game designer Jane McGonigal says, they are "wholeheartedly Read More...
This nurse found a way to break hospital routine to reflect on life and death
In hospitals, death and dying are part of the daily routine. Nurses and doctors need to learn to cope with the death of a patient. But with all the hustle and bustle in hospitals, and the next patient already waiting, where's the time to cope, the time to stand still for a moment to reflect on life Read More...
Got the Monday blues? Here's how to thrive at the start of your week
Having a case of the Mondays? We all know the feeling of the post-weekend blues, but there are plenty of ways to help cure the symptoms of stress that come with the first day of the work week. Other than reading your daily dose of Solution news, a bit of preparation on Sundays can go a long way in Read More...
To build a greener economy, Bhutan wants to go organic by 2020
Farmer Phub Zam, 55, is in a hurry. Monsoon rains have hit her farm in Bhutan’s Paro valley and Zam is rushing to harvest her broccoli before crop is damaged. "Of all my vegetables, broccoli is the most sought after," she said. “Each kilogram sells for 90 rupees ($1.40)." That’s 15 to 30 Read More...