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The top 20 most sustainable cities (not one is in the U.S.)
The most sustainable cities have shorter commutes, more bike lanes, and more neighborhood farmers’ markets. The Amsterdam-based engineering and consulting company Arcadis did, for the second year in a row, a survey that covers 100 cities around the globe. Zurich in Switzerland leads the list Read More...
Companies that do well for the world pay less for top talent
An analysis of posting on job sites shows that ads featuring descriptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities got more responses from highly qualified applicants. Most of them were willing to work for less than top dollar. In one experiment, candidates who received information about Read More...
The latest car from Peugeot runs on… air
More on car innovation: Compressed air doesn’t sound a likely fuel for cars. However, French automaker Peugeot is building a hybrid gasoline car that can store energy as compressed air. The air-hybrid car can achieve 81 miles per gallon while emitting just a fraction of the carbon dioxide per Read More...
Please cross safely when this self-driving car smiles
It must be terribly fun and inspiring to work as an engineer in the fast-developing field of self-driving cars: Working on challenging technology breakthroughs while integrating gadgets and features to please the consumer. Here’s a great example: This car smiles to let pedestrians know that it Read More...
This naturopath promotes healing without medicine; by transforming behavior
This naturopathic doctor knows everything about herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture and healthy food as alternatives for conventional drugs. Yet, he has gradually abandoned all alternative therapies as he has concluded that changing behavior is the most effective medicine. Read on for his simple Read More...
Water fund to slake Cape Town's thirst by restoring native bush
Cape Town is planning to launch a new fund by the end of 2017 that will improve its water supply by restoring the native shrubland plants covering the region's watersheds and aquifers. Amid uncertain rainfall patterns as the planet warms, protecting indigenous vegetation should yield more water for Read More...
Sell last gasoline car by 2035 to meet climate goals, study says
The last gasoline-powered car will have to be sold by about 2035 to put the world on track to limit global warming to the most stringent goal set by world leaders last year, a study said on Thursday. The report, by a Climate Action Tracker (CAT) backed by three European research groups, said a Read More...
Food waste could store solar, wind energy
Saving up excess solar and wind energy for times when the sun is down or the air is still requires Read More...
Global investment in energy falls but renewables remain strong
Global investment in energy fell by 8% last year to $1.8tn (£1.4), reflecting low oil and gas prices and cost falls in the sector, new data shows. Nearly half of the decline was accounted for by the US, where plunging oil prices and a recent boom in shale gas, along with cost deflation in the Read More...
How Europe's influx of refugees is inspiring creative, affordable housing for everyone
When hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants started arriving in Europe in 2015, many cities started quickly building simple shelters, sometimes repurposing old shipping containers as temporary places to sleep instead of tents. But these makeshift sites were also often on the edges of Read More...