Many of our good intentions to go greener or support charity are hard to execute and even harder to sustain. In […]
Michelin’s New Tires Are 3D Printed And Completely Biodegradable
Michelin recently revealed a prototype of the MICHELIN Visionary Concept. It is a tire made out of recycled materials. The […]
A New Form Of Stone Paper Offers Lighter, Economic, And Better Quality
The concept of using stone as a source material for paper is not new. Back in 1998, Taiwan Lung Men […]
Swiss Startup Makes Carbon Capture History With Negative Emissions Technology
On the 31st May this year, Swiss startup Climeworks made carbon capture history when it launched the world’s first commercial-scale […]
5 Green Startups Working To Make Our World A Better Place
We only have one world, and every year new green startups emerge to provide new technologies and services to help […]
Turning Smog Into Hydrogen Power – The Device That Converts Air Pollution into Energy
As we all know, preserving the environment is becoming more and more prevalent as the years pass and air pollution […]
Innovation in Recycling: Plaxx Creates Circular Economy For Plastic
Plastic tends to get a bad rap for various reasons, but Recycling Technologies MD Adrian Griffiths thinks we should give it […]
Awesome Alert: Vaute, The First Vegan Fashion Label
The fashion world is flooded by high couture brands using all sorts of fabrics and real animal furs to create […]
W.R.Yuma Aims To Turn Plastic Waste Into Premium Sunglasses
More people than ever are discussing the health of our planet and what we can all do to sustain it. […]
Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Is Creating A Better, Environmentally Friendly Battery
Professor John B. Goodenough, apart from having an ironic name, is one of the great influential inventors of the 21st […]
The Coolest Features in Apple’s New Campus, Apple Park
As some of you Apple aficionados know the late Steve Jobs had several projects on the go throughout his life […]
A Student-Designed Bee Drone Could Replace the Dying Honeybee
By now most people are decently aware of the drastic issue of the dying numbers of honeybees in North America. […]
Reforestum Plans to Make Carbon Offsetting as Easy as Calling an Uber
When we think of carbon offsetting, most of us conjure up images of corporations and national governments scrambling to fund […]
Turns Out Working At Tesla Might Suck
We’ve spoken a great deal about Elon Musk and his companies. From SpaceX to that drilling thing he keeps bragging […]
Graviky Labs Is Turning Your Car Pollution Into Perfectly Safe Ink
For over a century, mankind has depended on burning fossil fuels for energy. Although effective, fossil fuels are toxic, leading […]
This Vintage Instant Camera Is Made From Recycled Paper
As we proceed forward with technology and innovate new ways to create and use cameras, there are those that look […]
The Vertical Forest Is Coming To Nanjing, China To Clean The Air
We’ve talked about buildings cleaning the air in the past. In fact, we’d go so far as to say that […]
Honda And GM Invest $85 Million Into Hydrogen-Fueled Cars, And It May Be Too Late
So we’re all going electric right? That’s what the experts say. Lithium ion batteries are supposedly getting better and that […]
With the Green Fiber Bottle the Carlsberg Green Bottle Is Getting Even Greener
Ever walked barefoot along a beach and discovered “beach glass” the hard way through a lacerated and bleeding foot? Broken […]
A Reverse Vending Machine That Rewards Recycling
Conventional wisdom teaches us one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Something else it can be is fuel for a […]
The Urban GC1 Bike Is Made (Almost) Entirely Out of Paper
Thought that paper swan you made was complex? Maybe it was, but your origami chops are not high-level enough until […]
This Food Recycler Turns Food Waste to Fertilizer In 24 Hours
Did you know that food comprises approximately 20% of space in landfills and that the average family produces over 400 […]
The US Army Is Developing Biodegradable Bullets That Can Plant Trees
In a modern warfare twist on the age-old Parable of the Sower, the United States Department of Defence (DoD) has […]
Arconic Cleans Air & Fights Pollution With New Skyscrapers
Among the announcements at the start of this year, few have raised the same level of interest as those of […]
AgriCool Got $4.3M To Build Organic Farms In Shipping Containers
To Gonzague Gru and Guillaume Fourdinier, the question “How do you like them apples?”, is not a rhetorical one. The […]
New Bike Tires That Don’t Get Flat And Don’t Need Air
When it comes to cycling, whether you have a high-end ride or cheap beater, bike tires are most often the […]
“Invisible” Styled Solar Panels Are A Thing Thanks To Solar City & Startups
Who says solar panels need to be ugly and clunky? Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs are making renewable energy stylish and sexy with these green-energy materials that look like standard building supplies such as tile, slate, glass, and stone.
The Ecomo Water Bottle Tells You How Dirty Your Water Is And Filters It
We’re increasingly trusting of technology to keep us safe; from products like the Allergy Amulet protecting us from peanuts, to the […]
SnapMunk Weekly Tech Feed October 21, 2016 Transcript
– Julian Assange; Google Deepmind; Fusion Plasma and facial recognition databases. That’s just a few of this week’s tech stories, […]
SnapMunk WTF: Julian Assange, DeepMind AI, Fusion Reactors, Face Recognition
Welcome to WTF, the new weekly tech news web series from SnapMunk. Join Eric & Devin as they take you through this week’s biggest stories.
Tesla Will Now Build All Their Cars To Be Self-Driving Cars
Well this might change everything forever (leave it to an eccentric engineer worth $11.7 billion to make that sort of […]
A French Startup Is Launching A Fashionable Pollution Protection Scarf
According to the World Health Organization, in 2012, approximately seven million people died prematurely as a result of exposure to air pollution. […]
Fenestra Will Motorize & Automate Home Windows To Make Them Smart Windows
The EPA has shown that indoor air can be considerably more polluted than outdoor air. So trying to escape the […]
GrubMarket Farm-to-Door Marketplace & App Has Now Raised Over $32 Million
With another $20 million raised in August, GrubMarket is expanding its farm-to-table food delivery services and is ready to take on the big boys.
Water-Cleaning Energy-Generating Smart Bricks: A Dream Tenant For Smart Homes
Smart bricks may be the smartest future of the smart home market, thanks to a team of scientists out of the University of the West of England. These “living” bricks will do things like clean water, reclaim phosphate, generate electricity and facilitate the production of new detergents.
Startup Raises $53 Million to Grow Leather In A Lab And Avoid Slaughtering Animals
No animals were harmed in the writing of this article. That may not come as much of a surprise, but […]
5 London Startups Striving For An Eco-Revolution
Pavegen – Fueled By Footsteps Pavegen provides tiles that turn kinetic energy into electricity. “I found a way to use energy from […]
Founder of the Week: Mike Moll of My Green Space
The Vitals Birth Name: Michael Moll Nickname / Desired Superhero Name: The Full Time Optimist Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya (Born) – […]
5 South Korean Startups Changing the Game Overseas
In 2013, more than five ministries and agencies in South Korea started investing $3 billion on startup competitions to support […]
Sheffa Takes A Crack at Snacks with Compostable Packaging
Mention snacks in compostable food packaging and the first thing that comes to mind is SunChips – the green Frito-Lay […]
Tesla’s New Air Filtration May Accomplish Something Bigger Than a Gigafactory
It’s a Thursday evening and your boss just called, telling you not to come down to the office in the […]
10 Minutes with Robin Chase, Co-Founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar & Veniam
Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar and Veniam – and obviously, a beacon of transportation technology – talks to us about who she is, why she is, and where everything is headed.
5 Reasons To Try Cloud Computing Even If It’s Not for Business
We get it. “Cloud computing” just sounds like something you’d do in a technology company, or some multinational, highfalutin corporation. […]
Canadian Startup Ubifood Fights Food Waste With Local Deals On Overstock
Canadian startup Ubifood is looking to cut food waste with a smartphone app that connects hungry consumers with local, last minute deals from their excess inventory. It’s a green tech solution that should help retailers, hungry families, and the environment.
