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6 happiness tips to boost your work life
One way to improve your work life is to be happier. Why? Because happiness has been shown to lower stress, increase well-being and boost daily energy. When you feel good, you work better. Cultivating happiness is not something you simply do, but there are ways to bring joy into your life. To help Read More...
Edible cutlery company wants us to eat our way out of plastic pollution
Plastic waste covers our oceans and landfill. The past 70 years of plastic waste have resulted in pollution so ubiquitous scientists say it’s a marker of a new geological epoch, the manmade Anthropocene. Plastic cutlery is a contributor to this enormous problem – estimates suggest the Read More...
100% Renewable Electricity For South Australia By 2030, Greens Propose
If the Greens have anything to say about clean energy policies in South Australia, this land may showcase a 100% renewable electricity portfolio by 2030. According to RenewEconomy, the Greens have announced plans to have “… South Australia source 100% of its electricity needs from Read More...
The heat beneath our feet: the potential of Latin American geothermal power
Tapping into the energy that comes from the natural heat of Earth’s crust could be an efficient and affordable power source for Latin America, say experts. Technology is developing for exploring this source, which comes from the shallow ground, to hot water and hot rock found a few kilometres Read More...
How to stimulate inspiration
The story of how Velcro came to be has become the stuff of legend. A Swiss electrical engineer named Georges de Mestral went on a hunting trip in the Alps in the early 1940s and noticed how burrs from burdock plants attached to his dog’s fur. He took a closer look, inspiration struck, and the Read More...
When Bitcoin Grows Up: What is Money?
It’s worth thinking about that promise to ‘pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds’. When we parse it, it’s not clear what it means. Ten pounds of what? We’ve already got ten pounds. That’s exactly what we’re holding in our hand. It doesn’t mean, pay the bearer on demand ten Read More...
Cambridge researchers design world’s largest wooden skyscraper
Cambridge University researchers have presented a plan to build a wooden skyscraper to the London mayor. Responsible sourced wood is considered a renewable building material, as its production is significantly more climate-friendly than other materials. On top of that, CO2 is stored in wood. The Read More...
Uganda schools educate pupils in entrepreneurship
In countries with high percentage youth and high unemployment rates, school graduates often find themselves at the back of a long queue of job seekers. Social enterprise ‘Education!’ wants to change this. It developed a purely practical-learning based curriculum to help students start small Read More...
Farming as tool for refugees to integrate in Kansas
Non-profit ‘New Roots for Refugees’ found an inventive way to integrate refugees in Kansas through an education program in farming. Many of the refugees, mostly from Myanmar and Bhutan, were farmers in their home countries, but they are not used to the climate, crops and soils in Kansas. New Read More...
Forget bubble wrap, the future of packaging is marine algae
Buying goods online has made shopping incredibly convenient, but it’s also created one of the biggest pollution problems of our time: Packaging. Each day millions of packages filled with bubble wrap and other plastic protection are shipped out everyday only to be thrown away upon arrival, so a Read More...