Many of our good intentions to go greener or support charity are hard to execute and even harder to sustain. In…
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Michelin recently revealed a prototype of the MICHELIN Visionary Concept. It is a tire made out of recycled materials. The…
The concept of using stone as a source material for paper is not new. Back in 1998, Taiwan Lung Men…
On the 31st May this year, Swiss startup Climeworks made carbon capture history when it launched the world’s first commercial-scale…
We only have one world, and every year new green startups emerge to provide new technologies and services to help…
As we all know, preserving the environment is becoming more and more prevalent as the years pass and air pollution…
Plastic tends to get a bad rap for various reasons, but Recycling Technologies MD Adrian Griffiths thinks we should give it…
The fashion world is flooded by high couture brands using all sorts of fabrics and real animal furs to create…
More people than ever are discussing the health of our planet and what we can all do to sustain it.…
Professor John B. Goodenough, apart from having an ironic name, is one of the great influential inventors of the 21st…
As some of you Apple aficionados know the late Steve Jobs had several projects on the go throughout his life…
By now most people are decently aware of the drastic issue of the dying numbers of honeybees in North America.…
When we think of carbon offsetting, most of us conjure up images of corporations and national governments scrambling to fund…
We’ve spoken a great deal about Elon Musk and his companies. From SpaceX to that drilling thing he keeps bragging…
For over a century, mankind has depended on burning fossil fuels for energy. Although effective, fossil fuels are toxic, leading…
As we proceed forward with technology and innovate new ways to create and use cameras, there are those that look…
We’ve talked about buildings cleaning the air in the past. In fact, we’d go so far as to say that…
So we’re all going electric right? That’s what the experts say. Lithium ion batteries are supposedly getting better and that…
Ever walked barefoot along a beach and discovered “beach glass” the hard way through a lacerated and bleeding foot? Broken…
Conventional wisdom teaches us one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Something else it can be is fuel for a…
Thought that paper swan you made was complex? Maybe it was, but your origami chops are not high-level enough until…
Did you know that food comprises approximately 20% of space in landfills and that the average family produces over 400…
In a modern warfare twist on the age-old Parable of the Sower, the United States Department of Defence (DoD) has…
Among the announcements at the start of this year, few have raised the same level of interest as those of…
To Gonzague Gru and Guillaume Fourdinier, the question “How do you like them apples?”, is not a rhetorical one. The…
When it comes to cycling, whether you have a high-end ride or cheap beater, bike tires are most often the…
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.
We’re increasingly trusting of technology to keep us safe; from products like the Allergy Amulet protecting us from peanuts, to the…
– Julian Assange; Google Deepmind; Fusion Plasma and facial recognition databases. That’s just a few of this week’s tech stories,…
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Well this might change everything forever (leave it to an eccentric engineer worth $11.7 billion to make that sort of…
According to the World Health Organization, in 2012, approximately seven million people died prematurely as a result of exposure to air pollution.…
The EPA has shown that indoor air can be considerably more polluted than outdoor air. So trying to escape the…
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.
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.
No animals were harmed in the writing of this article. That may not come as much of a surprise, but…
Pavegen – Fueled By Footsteps Pavegen provides tiles that turn kinetic energy into electricity. “I found a way to use energy from…
The Vitals Birth Name: Michael Moll Nickname / Desired Superhero Name: The Full Time Optimist Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya (Born) -…
In 2013, more than five ministries and agencies in South Korea started investing $3 billion on startup competitions to support…
Mention snacks in compostable food packaging and the first thing that comes to mind is SunChips – the green Frito-Lay…
It’s a Thursday evening and your boss just called, telling you not to come down to the office in the…
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.
We get it. “Cloud computing” just sounds like something you’d do in a technology company, or some multinational, highfalutin corporation. …
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.