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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...
You can print this bamboo bike in your home for $200
It won’t be long before 3-D printing is going to revolutionize society. Designers in London want to show what that means and are pioneering a new system that uses a small 3-D printer to make the parts needed to put a bamboo bike together. The prototype uses about $20 worth of bamboo to create a Read More...
Greenpeace report: Rapid shift to renewable energy also solves fresh water problem
A rapid transition to clean renewable energy will also help solve the growing problem of fresh water shortage. A new Greenpeace report finds that coal-fired power plants use enough water to supply the needs of 1 billion people. And that number will almost double if all the world’s planned Read More...
New Airbus plane designed to diminish the impact of jet lag
A new Airbus plane significantly diminishes the impact of jetlag through a combination of a humidification system, onboard fresh air and an adaptable color temperature system, which can produce different light color combinations dependent on the flight length and time zone changes. The LED lights Read More...
Investor groups launch human rights standard to pressure business
Investor groups, human rights organizations and research agencies have come together to launch a “Corporate Human Rights Benchmark”. The initiative is focused on measuring the human rights efforts of some 100 large multinational companies and rank their performances. The objective is to follow Read More...
How to serve your immune system and heal common digestive issues with Ayurveda
More and more research shows that a successful immune response to almost every disease starts in our largest organ: the gut. The ancient healing system of India, Ayurveda, has always focused on the gut as the foundation of health. Ayurveda has very simple and effective solutions for common Read More...
Starbucks will start donating 100% of its unused food to those in need
Starbucks announced on Tuesday that it will donate 100% of the leftover food from its 7,600 stores to food banks across the U.S. In a bid to fight hunger and food waste, the coffee-giant has teamed up with nonprofit organization Feeding America and Food Donation Connection to donate perishable Read More...