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Cutting the cable: Kangaroo Island eyes switch to 100% renewable energy
Kangaroo Island is one of the great icons of Australian tourism. As Andrew Boardman, the chief executive of the Kangaroo Island council, says: “You can’t buy a name like that.” But now the third-biggest island in Australia, which lies just 120kms from Adelaide, wants to make its Read More...
Californians just saved $192 million via rooftop solar & energy efficiency
The solar-friendly voices at CleanTechnica.com have been saying it; solar advocates everywhere have been saying it; Californians have been saying it — solar saves. Solar saves money, saves the environment, and saves lives in this way. Yes, Californians just saved $192 million via rooftop Read More...
Businesses have seen the light with solar energy and it's finally paying off
A visit to a small hospital in northern Ghana changed Mahama Nyankamawu’s life forever. “It was dark, they had no electricity and the medicines they had had all gone bad,” recalled the 40-year-old, who went to the hospital after a car accident in 2014. The experience inspired Read More...
Serena Williams: The hope black America needed
Last week, for me, was about Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the list of names of hundreds more black bodies that they joined. It was about protests and it was about anger. It was about 11 police officers wounded and five killed in a tragic slaughter in Dallas. It was about grief, and it was Read More...
British businesses must meet the challenge of the circular economy
The environment was conspicuous by its absence from any of the mainstream campaigning ahead of the referendum, yet it is not only one of the areas most likely to be affected by the Brexit vote, but also the area where I believe business has the biggest responsibility and opportunity to act. Read More...
Robotic stingrays show the power of biomimicry
Looking to the natural world for engineering inspiration is an idea at least as old as Leonardo da Vinci. Copying nature directly, though, has often proved hard. For example, birds flap their wings to achieve both lift and propulsion, but flying machines that imitate this action have tended not to Read More...
Scientists uncover material that can transform solar power
Solar panels are made with a form of silicon that does not come naturally. The silicon needs to be extracted it first and then heated up to separate it from the oxygen. This process requires lots of energy. Scientists have found a cheaper alternative: Perovskites. Perovskites are minerals that Read More...
Turning restaurants into work spaces outside opening hours
The Internet-driven sharing economy opens all kinds of new opportunities for exchange. Restaurants provide precious public space in city centers and now a new app, Spacious, is turning upscale restaurants in New York into office spaces during the day. Members, after a free trial day, can subscribe Read More...
There are countries where police don’t carry guns, and they are more peaceful
So far this year 569 people have been killed by police in the U.S. There are countries where police usually don’t carry guns. New Zealand police were disarmed for routine work in 1886, following the principle that: “Constables are placed in authority to protect, not to oppress, the public.” Read More...
Sweden opens world's first electric highway
Sweden opened a stretch of electric highway, becoming the first country to test electric power for heavy transport. A 22 kilometer (or roughly 13 miles) stretch of the E16 road—which connects Oslo, Norway, to Gävle, Sweden—is fitted with power lines overhead, developed by Siemens, Read More...