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Solar without subsidies: Italy switches on five new power plants
On the day that President Trump pulled the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement to support American fossil fuel interests, Italy switched on five new solar plants. The plants operate without any government support in the latest sign that clean energy is the future of jobs and investments: Read More...
Others see better who you are, so try to understand their point of view
Lack of self-awareness is a troubling sign. In politics, for instance. Here’s the problem: According to new research, 95 percent of people think they’re self-aware, but only 10-15 percent are. True self-awareness also requires that we turn our gaze outward to understand how we are seen. It’s Read More...
Trump's Paris pullout is more damaging to the US than the climate
Will Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate change agreement tip the world into fiery catastrophe? The extraordinary unity of the rest of the world’s nations in tackling global warming, allied with the booming green economy, driven by plummeting renewable energy costs, Read More...
California leads the way and passes bill to go 100 percent renewable energy
California took a major step in ditching fossil fuels after the state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that aims for 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. The legislation, Senate Bill 100, was approved with a 25-13 vote. "Today, we passed the most ambitious target in the world to expand clean energy Read More...
Global Peace Index 2017: World slightly more peaceful than last year
Levels of peace around the world have improved slightly for the first time since the Syrian war began, but harmony has decreased in the US and terrorism records have increased, a Sydney-based think-tank has found. The Institute for Economics and Peace published its Global Peace Index on Thursday Read More...
Ridesharing hits hyper-growth
The last year has been rough for ridesharing app Uber, what with a litany of regulatory challenges, lawsuits over intellectual property infringement, and questions about gender relations in the workplace. The new year even brought a Twitter-driven #DeleteUber campaign. So, how’s the business Read More...
The $7 trillion promise of self-driving vehicles
Why are so many automakers, tech firms, components suppliers and ride-hailing companies pouring billions of dollars into developing self-driving cars and trucks? In part, it's because the payoff could eventually be worth $7 trillion. That's the estimate of a new study from the research firm Read More...
Made from polluting algae: These shoes clean lakes
If you buy these shoes, you are helping clean up a poisoned Chinese lake. The shoes are made from algae that started polluting the lake a decade ago depriving two million people of safe drinking water. Now the algae is harvested from the lake and turned into a flexible, rubbery material that is Read More...
Whisky company is bringing oysters back to the Scottish Highlands
The next time you have a whisky you may contribute to restoring oyster stocks in Scotland. Oysters were abundant in the northeast of Scotland 10,000 years ago. But overfishing almost wiped out the oysters in the late 19th century. This month a project led by the Glenmorangie Distillery, a Read More...
Put your coffee in your tank: Turning coffee grounds into biofuel
Coffee is one of the most wasteful consumer products. Few people realize that harvesting, processing, roasting and brewing coffee discards an estimated 99.7 percent of the biomass, only 0.2 percent is used to make you enjoy your cup of coffee. Millions of tons of agricultural waste are left to rot, Read More...