Britain’s Royal Mint is Salvaging Gold from E-Waste – Recycling Precious...
Perhaps the least-debated of all environmental dangers, unrecycled electronic waste is piling up around the world at alarming rates. Inside every laptop and smartphone is an electronic circuit...
View ArticleJobs in US Green Economy Grew to 6% of Total Employment –And Will Grow at 16x...
A new report shows that the percentage of jobs in the U.S. that fall under the category “green” has increased over the last 50 years to 9 million, or 6% of the total workforce. This number is not only...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Produces Its First 100% Recyclable Wind Turbine That Can be...
The production of the first prototype 100% recyclable wind turbine blade has just been unveiled. The 62m (203-foot) blade was made using Arkema’s Elium resin, which is a thermoplastic resin well known...
View ArticleAn Airbus Jumbo Jet Just Completed Two Flights Powered by Cooking Oil
Having recently had time called on its 15 years of service, an Airbus A380 just completed some trial flights powered by cooking oil. The largest passenger jet in the world, a double-decker behemoth...
View ArticleMattel Releases First Carbon Neutral Toys and Tesla Matchbox Car Made From...
We all know that plastic toys may be unnecessary or end up in the landfill, but it’s good to know that huge companies like Mattel are now using bioplastic and making their products more sustainable....
View ArticleLeaving No Molecule Behind: ‘Landfill of the Future’ Turns Farming Waste Into...
Among sparsely populated communities in Newfoundland, a landfill for the future—where every molecule is accounted for and reused—is steadily growing its portfolio of circularly produced goods that...
View ArticleFrench Town to Light its Streets With Bacteria Luminescence That Needs No...
A French design startup wants to reimagine public lighting by introducing—much like in a fantasy or sci-fi story—bacterial and fungal bioluminescence to street lights. One of the most fascinating...
View ArticleNew Transistor Could Cut 5% of World’s Digital Energy Use While Upgrading...
Inside nearly every piece of electronic equipment, there’s a transistor—a simple component that receives a current and sends it in one or more other directions. It’s one of those things that deserves...
View ArticleScientists Powering Tesla on 9,400-mile Journey With Rolled-up Printed Solar...
Scientists from Australia and Britain are planning to take a 9,400-mile road trip through some of the most remote regions of the world in a Tesla, all the while charging the batteries by unrolling a...
View ArticleScientists Invent De-icing Coatings to Cut Airline Delays by Lasting Longer...
Airports delays are common, but especially during winter when jets need to be dowsed with thousands of gallons of deicing fluids to prevent ice formation and maintain the plane’s aerodynamics to avoid...
View ArticleFacebook, Google, Stripe, Shopify Investing a Billion Dollars in Pre-Orders...
Four gargantuan tech companies have put together a $1.2 billion fund to pull carbon out of the atmosphere with a unique model that could go a long way to preventing 1.5°C of warming. The money will be...
View ArticleDutch Visionary Helps Refugee Camp Recycling All of its Plastic Trash into...
A refugee camp in the northern Sahara that relies on international aid for everything has gotten their hands on small, relatively-portable plastic recycling machines to turn the camp’s waste plastic...
View ArticleNew Hydrogen Fuel Cells Use Cheap Iron Instead of Costly Platinum for Green...
Researchers have developed a hydrogen fuel cell that uses iron instead of rare and costly platinum, enabling greater use of the technology. Hydrogen fuel cells convert hydrogen to electricity with...
View ArticleVermont Startup’s Electric Plane That Lifts-Off Vertically is Really Taking Off
A Vermont-based company pioneering electric vertical take off and landing planes, or “eVTOL” in the industry, is attracting huge investment and orders from different transportation companies. The...
View ArticleBronx Housing Complex Comes With Giant Machine Stomach to Turn All Food Waste...
A new community housing development in the Bronx will feature a cool piece of kit: an on-site aerobic digester that can turn 1,100 pounds of food scraps into 220 pounds of high-quality fertilizer every...
View ArticleBiggest Floating Solar Park in Europe Perfectly Integrates in Portugal Reservoir
A vast array of 12,000 solar panels are set to become Europe’s largest floating solar park when they finish taking position atop the Alqueva reservoir this year. Supplying a third of the electricity to...
View ArticleAmerica’s First Carbon-Negative Hotel in the Middle of Denver is Inspired by...
Taking inspiration from the aspen tree the state of Colorado so loves—a Denver hotel is looking to become the first-of-its-kind in America that removes more carbon than it uses. With cement-works,...
View ArticlePortable Wind Turbine Fits in Your Backpack to Charge All Your Electronics –...
Meet the portable wind turbine for campers, RVers, backpackers, wilderness researchers, or anyone who needs a bit of USB power in the great outdoors. Weighing three pounds, or just under 1.5 kilos,...
View ArticleWorld’s First Ocean-Assisted Carbon Removal Plant Launched in Hawaii
A company in middle of the Pacific has created a unique system that takes advantage of existing infrastructure to pull carbon from the ocean. The advantage of taking carbon out of the ocean is...
View ArticleScientists Discover Breakthrough Method of Making Advanced Electronics With H20
Water is the secret ingredient in a simple way to create key components for solar cells, X-ray detectors and other optoelectronics devices. The next generation of photovoltaics, semiconductors, and...
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