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Why protecting the environment is not a burden but an opportunity
Although the region of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has developed steadily over the last twenty-five years, the verdict on the state of the environment is more complex.In many countries, the economy was for years premised on the extraction of non-renewable natural Read More...
250-mile electric car from Hyundai planned for 2020
Hyundai is aiming to release an electric car with a 250-mile range by 2020, according to the company’s Director of Eco-Vehicle Performance Development Group Byung Ki Ahn. The plans were revealed in a recent interview that Ki Ahn gave to Autoblog, where he confirmed that the company would be Read More...
Buying bottled water is not a problem; doing something with the bottle is an opportunity
Americans use about 50 billion plastic water bottles each year and 38 of those end up in landfills, where they can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. But in a matter of weeks, a recycled water bottle can be made into a lumber alternative, polyester, stadium seating, car parts—or even a dress Read More...
Follow the sun for clean water
If you’re a girl, you’ve definitely followed the sun while tanning. Always making sure your towel faced the sun in a straight angle, guaranteeing optimal sun exposure and minimal shade lines. It’s quite possible Eden Full and her girlfriends used to do this as well, and maybe this is even Read More...
Newsstands in Australia are going to sell Bitcoin for cash
Digital “cryptocurrencies” like Bitcoin are going to transform our societies even more fundamentally than sharing economy initiatives as Uber and Airbnb are already doing because we all use money every day. Digital money still seems far away. However, Australians will soon be able to Read More...
Report: Only small farmers and agroecology can feed the world
Industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises linked to land, water and resource availability. A new report by an international panel of agriculture experts echoes the conclusion of the United Nations Special Read More...
How an artificial leaf could one day power your car
Harvard University researchers say they've created a half-chemical, half-biological system to generate liquid fuel, using air, water, and sunlight. As if that weren't enough, it takes climate-changing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in the process.A study published on Thursday in the journal Read More...
Two years until self-driving cars are on the road
Depending on whom you ask, your car will be driving you in less than two years – or more than 15. The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, who is never shy about beating his chest, on Wednesday declared it to be just two years away . In doing so, he made one of the most confident predictions to date about Read More...
Stanford researchers ‘stunned’ by stem cell experiment that helped stroke patient walk
Stanford researchers studying the effect of stem cells injected directly into the brains of stroke patients said Thursday that they were "stunned" by the extent to which the experimental treatment restored motor function in some of the patients. While the Read More...
Philips Lighting plans to sell two billion LED lightbulbs by 2020
Philips Lighting, the world's biggest manufacturer of LED lights, has offered a boost to the energy efficiency industry with a new pledge to sell two billion LED lightbulbs by 2020. The promise, delivered today to energy ministers gathered in San Francisco for the Clean Energy Ministerial summit, Read More...