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Meet the world's largest floating solar-energy farm
The 23,000 solar panels to be installed in the outskirts of London will become Europe’s – and momentarily, the world’s – largest floating solar-energy farm. But despite its spectacle, only few people will be able to actually see it. That’s because the solar panels will literally be Read More...
Australian first: Newstead aims to run on 100% renewable energy within five years
The quiet Victorian town of Newstead – population approaching 500 – has a big ambition: to source all its electricity needs without burning any fossil fuels at all. Within five years, it wants all of its power to come from renewable energy sources. Newstead is not unique in that goal. Read More...
Inside Juno, the company that wants to beat Uber by wooing its drivers
On a rainy Wednesday in February, about a dozen Uber and Lyft drivers parked their cars in the garage of a New York City skyscraper and gathered in a 47th-floor office with floor-to-ceiling windows. The drivers, who had 170 years of professional driving experience between them, were offered glasses Read More...
An ambitious genome sequencing project is tackling Africa's nutrition crisis
Malnutrition affects 40% of children in Africa. Part of the issue is that the staple crops in the formal food system lack the nutrients needed to properly feed a person. Traditional foods like amaranth, okra and breadfruit are incredibly healthy, but these have never been grown in agriculture Read More...
Norway set to double carbon tax on its oil industry to combat climate change
Norway has been an example of how nation must fight against climate change, and now in one of the most radical climate programs yet by an oil-producing nation, the Norweigan government has proposed doubling carbon tax on its North Sea oil industry. By doubling the tax, Norway wants to continue Read More...
6 high-tech refugee shelters that can be deployed in an instant
Each year, tens of thousands of people around the world are displaced from their homes by natural disasters, war and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. When this happens, emergency-response teams are tasked with the challenge of housing these refugees in a short period of time. Designers Read More...
Here's how to make the transition to 100% renewable energy
The question no longer is whether we can make a transition to 100% renewable energy, but how we're going to achieve this. Richard Heinberg, of the Post Carbon Institute, and David Fridley, staff scientist of the energy analysis program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have worked on a Read More...
Being grateful can change your life
Here's advice: Every night before you go to sleep, think of 5 things that were good about that day and write it down. It can be anything big or small, but the recognition of it alone will create positive energy. This daily practice can anchor you in the present and be mindful of all the goodness Read More...
The counterintuitive reason why doing nothing can make you more successful
In today's work-obsessed society, we have this belief that we have to constantly be doing something in order to be successful. But what if the opposite were true? As Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala argues in her new book, "The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Read More...
Stevie Wonder talks being vegan and living a green lifestyle
There is no doubt about it that Stevie Wonder is looking great these days, but what contributes to his already fabulous self? "I've been a vegan for two years, so that's helped my already good-looking self," joked the musician. "I think that eating healthy is important." The legendary singer put Read More...