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The $300 Billion Industry Airbnb Is Targeting Next
In less than a decade, Airbnb has gone from having a single listing, for an air mattress in founder Brian Chesky's living room, to having nearly twice as much room capacity as the largest hotel chain. The home rental network has 60 million users and a $24 billion valuation, making it the second Read More...
Charge your cell phone with a plant
Energy is everywhere. This Barcelona-based startup developed a simple device allowing you to charge your cell phone three times a day with the power of the roots of a plant. The Bioo taps into the 'biological battery' inside the base of the plant. According to the company, all that is required from Read More...
Great designs from nature that help improve energy efficiency
Nature-inspired designs hold a great potential for energy efficiency solutions. The first Biomimicry Global Design Challenge announced its finalists this week including solutions for agriculture, drainage, and desalination, based on respectively a carnivorous plant, earthworms, and mangrove trees. Read More...
New York initiative enhances solar purchase power of citizens
Solarize NYC is the new initiative of New York City to promote solar energy. It allows communities, business districts and places of worship to team up and purchase green energy as one group, enhancing their purchase power. Customers could save up to 20 percent, and local solar energy producers Read More...
U.S. is discovering that legalization of marijuana actually works
The war on drugs has been a centerpiece of U.S. policies for decades with poor results. Slowly U.S. states are starting to experiment with the legalization policies that have worked so well in countries, like The Netherlands, where drugs use and crime rates have fallen as a result of Read More...
You throw away about 80 pounds of clothing each year. Here’s what you can do instead.
Clothing, towels, bedding and other textiles take up about five percent of space in landfills. Throwing away textiles is a wasteful practice. Manufacturing clothing takes a lot of resources. The textile industry is known for being hard on the planet and the people working and living near textile Read More...
British utility offers carbon neutral green gas
UK energy firm Good Energy started offering a carbon neutral gas tariff. The gas mix will contain six percent bio-methane, domestically produced out of organic material. The biogas comes from anaerobic digester sites. Other emissions resulting from gas use are compensated with carbon reduction Read More...
Mushrooms hold potential for sustainable building materials
In an innovative search for sustainable building materials, a group of researchers designed benches from mushrooms. They installed six benches at the University of British Columbia, grown from oyster mushroom spores and alder sawdust packed into molds. The designers think the most promising Read More...
First solar powered aircraft completes Pacific crossing
For the first time a solar powered airplane made it across the Pacific Ocean. The Solar Impulse 2 landed successfully in California after taking off from Hawaii 62 hours earlier. The aircraft was supposed to land in Abu Dhabi by the end of last summer, from where it departed, but faced significant Read More...
Study shows that companies with older workers are the most innovative
According to standard business thinking, a younger workforce and more dynamic, innovative companies go hand in hand. However, as a new Australian study shows, ageism in the workforce is built on a faulty premise. The study has found that contrary to stereotypes and assumptions, the most innovative Read More...