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The solar showroom is a bright way to get solar panels onto more roofs
What if buying solar panels was like buying a car? You walk around the showroom, you see the panels on different tiled roofs, and you actually see what you’re getting before you buy it. In California, a solar showroom allows potential customers to interact with solar panels, and it's persuading Read More...
Now you can start a strawberry business in a parking lot
Shipping containers have become all the hype in the urban farming world. Startups like Cropbox and Freight Farms are enabling cities all over to grow leafy greens, and now French startup Agricool has developed their own shipping container that can grow strawberries. Using hydroponic growing units, Read More...
People in Düsseldorf are watching ads for free tram tickets
Imagine instead of paying for the subway or tram, you just watched few ads on your smartphone. In Düsseldorf, Germany, an app called WelectGo is giving people the opportunity to do just that. You watch four advertisements from companies that have partnered with WelectGo, and then the app uses the Read More...
6 upcycling projects that turn coffee waste into something cool
You know the saying ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’? Well, it's kind of the same with coffee grounds. The grounds you probably throw away after you brew your cup are the same grounds people would use for a variety of upcycling projects. Take a look at what some people are doing Read More...
3 radical ideas to totally disrupt air travel
If a flight attendant told me that I couldn’t bring my roller bag onto the plane, I might throw a fit. But when the same idea comes from Teague—the preeminent air travel design studio that’s designed the interiors of Boeing planes since 1946—I’ll hear them out. Recently at the Airline Read More...
Why it pays to be late (sometimes)
It is no surprise so many people feel fearful or unmoored these days. The three largest forces on the planet – technology, globalisation and climate change – are all accelerating at once. As a result, many aspects of our societies, workplaces and geopolitics are being reshaped and need to be Read More...
How does LSD induce short-term psychosis but long-term optimism?
When most people think of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) the image that comes to mind is hallucinating hippies at Woodstock, but the drug’s Read More...
Here's what placebos can heal—and what they can't
Illness is best cured with drugs. That assumption has prevailed since pharmaceuticals became widely available. But in recent years there has been a growing interest in alternative medicines, many of which employ mental or spiritual powers to heal the body. Now research into the biochemistry of Read More...
Wefood: the Danish supermarket opening its second expired-food branch
It may be past its sell-by date, but for many Danes it’s a tasty proposition: a supermarket in Copenhagen selling surplus food has proved so popular it has now opened a second store. After launching in the district of Amager earlier this year, the Wefood project drew a long line as it opened Read More...
Can fig trees regrow lost rainforests?
“By themselves the figs could build a forest,” ecologist EJH Corner wrote almost a century ago. Now a fascinating book, Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: the secret history and redemptive future of fig trees (titled Ladders to Heaven in the UK), delves anew into this tropical species’ Read More...