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The future of transportation could be this drone-like electric jet
A startup is developing a five-seat electric aircraft that can take off and land vertically. The startup, which recently won a prestigious award for sustainability innovation, envisions using the aircraft like an Uber, hailing it from your phone to take you around the city, avoiding traffic. The Read More...
How to live a happier life, according to Yale’s most popular class
The most popular class at Yale goes by the title “Psychology and the Good Life.” The class teaches students how to live a happier life based on research. So what are some of the key habits that Yale students learn to develop in the class? Find out Read More...
One day without plastic. Can you do it?
Like it or not, plastic is everywhere. We sit on it, store our food in it, drink from it, text with it, type with it, wear it, and carry our groceries home from the store in it. Yet we know that plastic is harsh on the environment in its production and even harsher when it winds up in our Read More...
Ocean wind farms are becoming artificial reefs
Offshore wind proponents are touting new undersea footage that suggests a vibrant marine habitat is growing around the nation's first offshore wind farm — a five-turbine operation off Rhode Island's Read More...
In rural India, wild honey farmers are using bees to fight terrorism
Much of the world's honey is contaminated with pesticides. In a recent study, 200 honey samples from around the world were examined for neonicotinoid insecticides; 75 per cent of them tested positive. For Amit Hooda, co-founder of Heavenly Organics, this isn't new information. His belief? That Read More...
Silicon Valley parents are raising their kids tech-free—and it should be a red flag
It's 9 a.m. in Sunnyvale, California and Minni Shahi is on her way to work at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino. Her husband, a former Googler named Vijay Koduri, is meeting his business partner at a local Starbucks to discuss their startup, a YouTube clip-making business called Read More...
Residential solar is cheap, but can it get cheaper? Paths to $0.05 per kWh
The price of solar panels has fallen far and fast. But the Energy Department (DOE) wants to bring those costs down even further, especially for residential homes. After all, studies have shown that if every inch of useable rooftop in the US had solar panels on it, the panels could provide about 40% Read More...
Public support for coal is rapidly declining in America
Although the executive branch continues to tout coal as America’s top energy source, the public is not buying into this illusion. A new survey of US public opinion found that while Americans still seem lukewarm on reducing fossil fuel production in general, they are rapidly turning against coal. Read More...
Solar sidewalks may change the way we generate energy in cities
On a sidewalk in Budapest, an energy startup recently installed a swath of solar panels. The solar panels are nearly completely integrated into the environment, causing no disruptions to the way people use sidewalks while producing electricity to fuel electric cars that are parked in the lot beside Read More...
Waste doesn’t have to be wasted: Creative ways of recycling trash
Not only is the waste we produce rapidly increasing, but we are also running out of ways to dispose of it. In January this year, China said it would no longer process the millions of tons of “foreign garbage” shipped to it each year by the West. Fortunately, there are already organizations who Read More...