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Changing expiration labels would help cut back food waste
Food waste is a hot topic quickly moving into the political mainstream, because it touches so many issues at once — the environment, hunger, household budgets and the overall economy. As it turns out, confusing date labels lead to Americans wasting as much as 40 percent of their food. With the Read More...
Exercise protects brain function in elderly people
Exercise, including activities like walking and running, is linked to preserved brain structure, even among individuals with mild and severe symptoms of mental decline, according to a new study. Older people who exercise more tend to have more gray matter in their brains than less active Read More...
A hydrogen car has just done something amazing on the M25
The world record for the longest continuous journey in a hydrogen car has been broken. The London Hydrogen Network Expansion project (LHNE), a government-backed group, drove a hydrogen car around the M25 for six days. Impressively, the Hyundai ix35 fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), covered Read More...
Dyson developing an electric car, according to government documents
Dyson is developing an electric car at its headquarters in Wiltshire with help from public money, according to government documents. The company, which makes a range of products that utilise the sort of highly efficient motors needed for an electric car such as vacuum cleaners, hand dryers and Read More...
Why the world must shift to plant-based diets: A doctor explains
Maybe you already believe in the idea that “you are what you eat.” Now, a powerful new study takes that a step further, suggesting that the health of our planet is also what we eat. In this new study, scientists calculated that eating more plant-based foods—and less Read More...
Angel investing gets a shot in the arm in the UK
The nation’s small businesses can expect a wave of capital from a new generation of investors following the launch of a campaign to more than double the number of active angels backing UK firms by 2019.The new Become An Angel campaign, which will launch on Wednesday at the House of Commons, plans Read More...
Pork power: Renewable energy source?
"The gas from this project will generate carbon neutral electricity compared to the emissions that would result if the waste was left to decay naturally," Fountain went on to add. The facility will be built and owned by Carbon Cycle Energy. According to Duke Energy, the methane, once captured, will Read More...
How a Swedish school helps migrant kids to integrate
Shabo Rhawi is clearly vexed during our first meeting. Sitting in the office of Elafskolan, the only school in Europe with a curriculum specifically designed for Assyrian children, the headmaster nurses a black coffee, prepared to answer questions on the school’s bilingual program. Instead, Read More...
Meet the South Korean entrepreneurs promising a clean energy revolution
For South Korean millennials born into bright lights, cheap energy and bustling modernisation, the country’s dimly lit, war torn past is a thing of the history books. This made Akas Kim’s trip to rural India, seeing remote villages struggling to secure running water and power, all the Read More...
Apple Operating At 93% Renewable Energy Worldwide
March 23rd, 2016 by Joshua S Hill Speaking at Apple’s Monday ‘Loop You In’ event, the company’s VP of environment, Lisa Jackson, claimed 93% of Apple’s facilities worldwide run on renewable energy. Apple has been targeting the running of all its facilities Read More...