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Spain on track to be the first net carbon zero G-20 nation
Spain has been investing heavily in wind farms and, more controversially, nuclear, with stark results: last month it generated 69 percent of its electricity from plants that did not emit carbon dioxide. It has realistic prospects to reach 87 percent next year through planned investments in wind and Read More...
Lucid Energy installs hydropower in municipal drinking water pipes
Hydropower has a great advantage over solar and wind energy: it is reliable, typically consistent (unless severe drought dries out rivers and lakes) and easily predictable. What if it could be made more ubiquitous? Portland startup Lucid Energy has imagined harnessing the energy generated by Read More...
Start investing in a greener world now
If your money could talk, what would you like it to say? How about that it’s proudly contributing to support or influence business and public policy to create a greener, more sustainable world? Here are five tips to simply point you in the right direction, or act as reminders of what you already Read More...
Ferrock, the cement that captures carbon from the air, comes to market
Cement, the glue that allows concrete to harden, is responsible for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Because it requires limestone to be heated at very high temperatures, cement production emits about 800 kilos of carbon for every 1,000 kilos of cement it yields. Ferrock aims to make cement Read More...
Seattle-based Gravity Payments raises its minimum wage to $70,000 a year
The United States has one of the world’s largest pay gaps, with chief executives earning nearly 300 times what the average worker makes. Despite new regulation embedded in the financial overhaul that Congress passed in 2010, publicly held companies have yet to disclose the ratio of CEO pay to the Read More...
How cheap street lights help create safe communities
According to the United Nations, 1.5 billion people around the world have to make do either with very poor quality light or no light at all. There are 1.3 billion who rely on kerosene lamps which emit toxic fumes, causing respiratory illnesses and killing an estimated 1.5 million people each year. Read More...
Lima’s engineering students show off creativity in water-harvesting billboard
In Peru, farms struggle with polluted soil and water that leaches heavy metals like lead and arsenic into vegetables. Hydroponics with filtered water is one answer. UTEC, Lima's University of Engineering and Technology, went to work. It put up a billboard that collects and purifies water from the Read More...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi: use your anger to change the world
Anger can be a very good thing. Like when sheer outrage led human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi to free 83,000 children from slavery. “For centuries, we were taught anger is bad. Everyone taught us to control and suppress our anger. But I ask ‘why’? Why Read More...
Electric cars and combustion engine vehicles reach cost parity 6 years early
Electric cars hooked to renewable sources of energy like roofsolar are a major component of the kind of carbon-free infrastructure required to keep temperatures below the critical ceiling as defined by the International Panel on Climate Change. The good news is that the market for electric cars has Read More...
Germany successfully turns intermittent renewable power into a reliable flow
As the cost of solar panels keeps dropping and the market picks up, supported in some places by government mandates such as the Renewable Portfolio Standards in 29 states, incorporating intermittent power flow from renewables emerges as a major issue for grid operators. Until batteries come online Read More...