Search
Total number of posts: 23766
Researchers want to use old EV batteries to help store power for the grid
In four or five years, the batteries in the roughly one and a quarter million electric vehicles currently on the road will start to decline and will have to be replaced. So what will we do with all those batteries that have such much life still in them, but are no longer suitable for cars? Two Read More...
Why you won't be owning a car in 25 to 30 years
Within a few decades, you may not own a car anymore. Nor will your neighbor. Or your neighbor’s neighbor. But what you may have is partial ownership in a network of self-driving cars that will show up on demand when needed. While it may be hard to think of parting with your car right now, the Read More...
A state in Australia is giving fracking the boot
Gas exploration is going cold turkey in the Australian state of Victoria. On Tuesday, the state became the first to introduce a permanent ban on all onshore conventional gas exploration, including fracking and coal seam gas. The government said it received more than 1,600 submissions last year Read More...
Meditation helps the body restore itself and leads to healthier aging, study
A new study confirms that the benefits of meditation aren’t strictly psychological—relief of mental stress. Meditation provides relief for our immune systems as well, easing the day-to-day physical stress of a body constantly trying to protect itself. Meditation helps the body restore itself Read More...
How to eat more vegetables and less meat in 3 weeks
With an eye on the environment and another your own health, it’s never been a better time to start eating less meat and more vegetables. Cutting down on animal protein does more than slash calories—it lowers your cholesterol and blood pressure, as well as your risks of heart diseases, diabetes Read More...
Indian scientists design device to collect solar energy
Indian scientists have designed a new device they hope will solve one of the biggest problems with the use of solar energy. They call the device a solar tree. Solar trees have metal “branches” extending from a tall, central pole at different levels. Each branch holds a photovoltaic Read More...
South Africa to become wind energy hot spot (and why we should care)
As recently as 2012, South Africa had very little wind energy capacity—10 MW to be precise—and it had taken ten years to get to that point. Now, in 2016, it is right around 2 GW. That's something like a 1900% increase in four years by my (admittedly math-addled) brain. And according to Read More...
Chinese people want renewable energy more than anyone, but nobody’s selling it to them
It turns out a staggering number of Chinese people are willing to pay more for renewable energy. But businesses that sell green power to consumers, prolific elsewhere, haven’t yet got a single foothold in the biggest market on earth. A survey of 3,000 Chinese city-dwellers by Ipsos Mori, a Read More...
This will be the largest 'Passive House' apartment complex in the world
Sitting on a piece of land roughly the size of a football field in a former freight yard in Heidelberg, Germany, a new 162-unit apartment complex called Heidelberg Village will soon be the largest passive house development in the world. To meet the exacting "Passivhaus" standard, buildings can only Read More...
The organization is a purposeful living system
We are in the midst of a metamorphic period of change unlike anything the world has seen since the late Middle Ages. With “meta” (meaning “form”) and “morph” (meaning “change”), the word suggests the transformative change in form of human institutions Read More...