📉 Severe reduction of deaths due to natural disasters
The number of people dying due to natural disasters and epidemics has fallen sharply in the last 100 years.
🐋 This new app could save whales in Puget Sound from boat strikes
There’s one thing in the sea that’s bigger than whales: boats. And unfortunately every once in a while, a boat strikes a whale, causing serious injury or even death. Every time this happens is a tragedy and to decrease these incidents, and eventually stop them from happening altogether,
☀️ A former landfill in Maryland becomes the perfect site for a community solar farm
Solar power is an effective way of producing clean, renewable, energy, but finding the space for large solar farms, especially in populated areas, can be a challenge. Fortunately for the residents of Prince George’s County, Maryland, they already had a large area of land unsuitable for development yet perfect
♳ French startup can recycle any old plastic and turn it into virgin plastic again
The problem with traditional recycling is that you degrade the material each time you do it. That’s why a France-based startup called Carbios is taking an entirely new approach. Using a bioreactor, the startup is taking pulverized PET plastic waste—the kind of plastic found in drink bottles and
How “agritech” is helping Indian farmers
With a population of 1.3 billion and growing, India is home to hundreds of thousands of citizens dependent on farming for income and ever-increasing food demands. However, Indian farmers often struggle with losing crops to disease or achieving fair prices at the market. Companies are hoping to ameliorate this
Solar Energy: The Beginning of a Revolution
Solar energy is booming. With an increase in supply as well as a decrease in cost, solar energy is now a real option for millions of people looking to sever ties with conventional energy. Over the last 40 years, the price of solar energy has decreased by 99.6 percent,
Moore’s Law Is Dying. This Brain-Inspired Analogue Chip Is a Glimpse of What’s Next
“Dark silicon” sounds like a magical artifact out of a fantasy novel. In reality, it’s one branch of a three-headed beast that foretells the end of advances in computation. Ok—that might be too dramatic. But the looming problems in silicon-based computer chips are very real. Although computational power
The cleanest kicks around: these classy sneakers are totally carbon neutral
Lots of shoe brands have been coming out with new lines of sneakers made of sustainable sources, but the problem is that many of these brands are huge corporations whose practices are unsustainable overall and who have put out eco-friendly shoes in an attempt to win over the public. Another
⚡️ Smart power grids and transmission – the key to the energy of the future
Smart electricity grids play a key role in creating new services and in balancing energy use, especially now that the energy mix is changing rapidly and electrification is underway in a number of sectors.