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Nissan cars are about to get some awesome self-driving features
Tesla isn't the only automaker bringing autonomous driving features to its cars. Nissan recently announced that it will release its ProPILOT semi-autonomous technology in its new Serena car in Japan starting in late August. But the tech is also slated to arrive in Europe in 2017, and eventually in Read More...
How microbes can save farming
Right under our feet. That's where David Perry believes the next agricultural revolution will come from — the millions of unseen microbes in soil that play a crucial but complicated role in the well-being of plants. Perry believes that he can repackage beneficial bacteria and fungi as Read More...
Namibian and Kenyan entrepreneurs prove there is big business in recycling
Inadequate or non-existent municipal waste collection services in many African countries have resulted in large rubbish heaps alongside streets in most major urban centers. The trash poses health hazards. However, the tide is changing, and there are recycling and waste collection businesses Read More...
After changing what you wear, Patagonia wants to change what you eat
Clothing brand Patagonia has been a leader of environmental and sustainable business for decades with innovative and often daring initiatives. So we shouldn’t be surprised that Patagonia is now launching a food business: Patagonia Provisions. Founder Yvon Chouinard says that his company has been Read More...
France vows to outlaw Monsanto's glyphosate by 2018
Bad news and good news at the same time. First the European Union failed to come to a final agreement and decided to extend the license for the use of the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, for 18 months. But then Segolene Royal, the French Minister for Ecology, Read More...
India ahead of schedule in fight against global warming
Here’s another example that global warming solutions are emerging everywhere. India, the world’s fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter, has said that it expects to meet its carbon reduction goals earlier than expected. India’s outgoing climate chief said the country could meet its 2030 Read More...
When meds didn’t improve my depression, I tried retraining my brain waves instead
Two years ago, I walked through the door of a Seattle therapist’s office with the goal of resetting my 45-year-old brain. A trauma survivor with a history of depression and anxiety, I was hoping that an alternative mode of therapy I’d heard about called neurofeedback might finally Read More...
Neuroscience finds this exercise is fantastic at making you smarter
We already know that exercise can help make us smarter, happier and less stressed. But all exercise is not created equal. If you're a time-crunched entrepreneur, might you like to know which kind of exercise is most beneficial for your brain? A recent study reveals the answer, and it's a Read More...
The port that fuels L.A.'s economy and fouls its air gets a pollution-reduction team
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Tuesday announced the appointment of an advisory panel tasked with reducing air pollution from the Port of Los Angeles by expanding the use of zero-emissions technology. The 10-member Sustainable Freight Advisory Board, made up of representatives from Read More...
Reforestation could help mitigate global warming
Planting new forests could contribute more to the mitigation of climate change than previously thought, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Land use changes strongly affect the exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the land. Read More...