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Canada to set price on carbon to curb climate change
When it comes to climate action, Canada is among the worst rich countries in reducing carbon emissions. That may soon change though thanks to new legislation that will impose a minimum price on carbon emissions. The move will push the nation’s 10 provinces into properly regulating climate Read More...
Judge orders temporary block on Dakota pipeline construction after Native American protests
Last week, news programs were filled with awful images of law enforcement authorities clashing with Native Americans in North Dakota after construction crews destroyed sacred burial and cultural sites on private land in order to complete the construction of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline. Read More...
Denmark opened the world's first food waste supermarket
The charity behind the world’s first food waste supermarket has said that it is planning to open two more. Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, which opened the first food waste supermarket in Copenhagen in February, said that it is planning to open another in Copenhagen and a third in Arhus, the second Read More...
Obama administration: Roads will be safer with cars driven by machines, not people
For most of us, it’s still hard to imagine the world where cars are driven by computers. And that that would be a safer world. However, we are definitely going to a self-driving car reality. Here’s another big step in that direction. The Obama administration now says: “We envision in the Read More...
How to design a life you love, according to two professors at Stanford
Do you remember the last time you felt a moment of pure joy? It could be the feeling you had when you got a great new job offer, fell in love, finished a marathon or traveled to a beautiful country. According to the authors of the new book, Designing Your Life, these kind of moments can help us in Read More...
The simple difference that reduced food waste in Scotland by 40%
The Scottish Government is providing free doggy bags to hundreds of restaurants across Scotland to reduce food waste. The Good to Go branded bags are being rolled out after a pilot scheme showed that offering customers doggy bags could reduce food waste from leftovers by 40 per cent per restaurant. Read More...
China embarked on wind power frenzy, says IEA
China has been building two wind turbines every hour, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has told BBC News. This is the world's biggest programme of turbine installation, double that of its nearest rival, the US. The nation’s entire annual increase in energy demand has been fulfilled from Read More...
Researchers discover more efficient way to split water, produce hydrogen
Hydrogen is often considered a fuel for the future, in the form of fuel cells to power electric motors or burned in internal combustion engines. But finding a practical, inexpensive and nontoxic way to produce large amounts of hydrogen gas – especially by splitting water into its component Read More...
Experts weigh In: Cost of wind energy to keep going down, down, down
Here’s more bad news for fossil fuels: The U.S. Department of Energy just released the results of a global survey of 163 wind energy experts. The verdict: The cost of wind energy will drop between 24 and 30 percent by 2030, from a 2014 baseline. In addition, a total reduction of 35 to 41 Read More...
Paved, but still alive
There are said to be at least 105 million and maybe as many as 2 billion parking spaces in the United States. A third of them are in parking lots, those asphalt deserts that we claim to hate but that proliferate for our convenience. One study says we’ve built eight parking spots for every car Read More...