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Introducing: Off-grid villages that grow food and generate power
If you move into a new neighborhood being constructed outside of Amsterdam, your salad greens might come from the greenhouse attached to your home. Your eggs could be gathered from the village chicken coop, and your food waste would all get harvested for compost. ReGen Villages is a Read More...
Soil isn’t sexy but we need to dig in and help conserve it
Soil, earth, mud, dirt; whatever word you choose, it is difficult to think of a less glamorous topic to campaign on. But a campaign is now vital. Soil is critical to much of our food. It also safeguards biodiversity, as a habitat for below-ground life that includes many thousands of types of Read More...
Zara launches sustainable fashion line for fall
Society’s craving for fast fashion has an adverse impact on people and the planet, but the world’s largest apparel companies say they are working to solve the problem. One such firm is Inditex, which owns the popular chain Zara. The Spanish retailer launched a new fashion Read More...
Banks adopting blockchain 'dramatically faster' than expected: IBM
Banks and other financial institutions are adopting blockchain technology "dramatically faster" than initially expected, with 15 percent of top global banks intending to roll out full-scale, commercial blockchain products in 2017, IBM said on Wednesday. The technology company said 65 percent of Read More...
Scientists watch an immune system fight the flu in real time
Infections play out like short wars. A virus enters the body and over time the immune system’s T-cells respond and kill off infected cells. How do we know this? Well, because researchers have developed a way to watch all of this happen in real time. Using a new technology, researchers can create Read More...
This new battery could trigger the start of electric aviation
While most methods of transportation are becoming more environmentally friendly, the airline industry is still as dirty and inefficient as it has been for the last 40 years. The electric motor could function fine in airplanes, but that isn’t the issue. The issue is that it’s impossible to get Read More...
How the return of wolves revived Yellowstone's ecosystem
In 1995, Yellowstone National Park reintroduced a pack of 66 wolves following a 70-year absence from the park. The return of the wolves was an extraordinary success, helping to rejuvenate wildlife in the park from top to bottom. Here’s a fantastic video that shows how the reintroduction of one Read More...
Hey investors! There's a stock exchange just for green bonds
When it comes to the stock market, it’s not always easy to know whether a stock that claims to be green is really green. That’s why the Luxembourg Stock Exchange has created the world’s first exchange that will trade nothing but green securities. It’s being called the Luxembourg Green Read More...
Stress can override benefits of healthy eating
We know that eating well is good for our health. However, new research shows that stress can override the benefits of making better food choices. To evaluate the interactions between diet and stress, researchers recruited 58 women who completed surveys to assess the kinds of stress they were Read More...
Uber launches global assault on food delivery market
In a measure of rising ambition beyond its taxi business, Uber will begin delivering meals in Amsterdam on Thursday just as Dutch market leader Takeaway.com begins trading on the city's stock market. And according to current job listings on Uber and other recruiting sites - for about 150 Read More...