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Biodegradable and tagged nets save fish and marine life
Traditional fishing nets take millennia to break down, and they’re often discarded into the ocean where they unnecessarily kill helpless marine life. Now an engineering student has come up with a biodegradable fishing net that can be tracked as well. The nets are affixed with RFID tags so that Read More...
A biofuel stove powered by the sun fights indoor cook-smoke
Four million people die every year from health problems that are caused by cooking with wood inside their homes. Now a Lesotho based company has invented a bio stove that cooks with clean fuel and doesn’t produce carcinogenic smoke. The stove also comes with a small solar panel with a USB port Read More...
Australia sets solar energy record
The efficiency of most solar panels averages between 10 and 15 percent with conversion records hitting around 35 percent. So it’s big news when a team of Australian scientists reports a 40.4 percent conversion efficiency by using commercially available solar cells combined with a mirror and Read More...
British MP’s acknowledge air pollution and urge for action
There’s much talk about the threat of global warming for the future health of vast sections of the world population. That threat is presented as a good reason to act on climate change now. There’s an even better argument: Air pollution is killing millions of people today. A report by the Read More...
More than half the products at M&S have ‘sustainable attribute’
Most sustainability reports from major corporations provide many words about most often small achievements. Here’s a big exception. British retailer Marks and Spencer reports that already 63 percent of the company’s products sold have a “sustainable” attribute. That stunning figure makes Read More...
Cheap device making drinking water from salt water
Our world is covered in water, but most of it is in the oceans. And, so far, making drinking water out of salt water is a difficult and expensive process. A new device, Desolenator, driven by solar power can desalinate seawater in a cheap and efficient way. The instrument can also purify heavily Read More...
$25 contraception per woman per year cuts unwanted pregnancies by 70%
Hundreds of millions of women around the world want to avoid pregnancy every year but don’t have access to contraception. A new report released by the UN has found that just $25 per year per woman in the developing world would dramatically reduce deaths related to births, STDs, and other sexual Read More...
First Turkish mosque designed by a woman
Turkey has more than 82,000 mosques. All except for one have been designed by men. Zeynep Fadillioglu is a 59-year-old interior designer and the brains behind the Şakirin mosque in Istanbul. Fadillioglu payed particular attention to ornamentation in the Şakirin mosque, along with uniformity, Read More...
New UK guidelines say homebirths are safer
Along with feeling more comfortable, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), an arm of the UK’s department of health, has said that home births are safer. The group says that women who give birth at home are 5 times less likely to need a cesarean section, 4 times less likely Read More...
Biowaste toilets solves stinky problem for Kenyan school
Last year the Maseno School in western Kenya completed a substantial renovation. A major part was a brand new 720-student dormitory, but what the renovation lacked was a new sanitation system; the current one is stinky and is polluting a nearby stream that provides drinking water to a community. Read More...