IKEA Will Start Selling Solar Panels in Some U.S. Stores This Fall
The popularity of solar has gone through the roof—and now IKEA is making it easier to install some panels on your roof. Launching this fall in California, members of the U.S. IKEA Family customer...
View ArticleEuropean Cities Are Turning Rooftops Into Community and Sustainability Hubs:...
Across Europe, intrepid artists, planners, and architects are transforming the flat, grey rooftops of the continent into lively community hubs. From public parks to art venues to rainwater catchments...
View ArticleOne of the Most Beautiful Green Buildings in the World is a Winery
One look at this Hobbit hole-like winery in the country of Georgia and you’ll fall in love with green architecture. Built three years ago in the Kakheti region, the Shilda Winery consists of three...
View ArticleDesigner Turns Mussel Shells That Once Clogged London’s Water Pipes into...
Some designers in London are taking an invasive mussel species and turning it into beautiful tiling. Aside from preventing the mussel shells breaking down in landfills, the process creates a rigid...
View ArticleThis Gorgeous Leather is Made From the Hide of an Invasive Predatory Fish
An exotic aquarium staple, the spectacular lionfish is unfortunately an invasive species that spells catastrophe for Atlantic and Caribbean ecosystems it happens upon. Fortunately for these seas,...
View ArticleBreakthrough Zero-Carbon Fertilizer Set to Take Root Across the World as...
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Imagine if every time you threw out your lawn and garden waste, you were actively...
View ArticleUFO-Like Treehouse Hovers in the Highest Branches of Finnish Forest – LOOK
Built by a firm usually known for making high performance electric cars, a flying saucer-inspired treehouse could soon be rented for forest R&R in Finland. Swedish company Polestar constructed the...
View ArticleAquatic ‘Superplants’ Are Local Food for Cows That Lead to Lower Emissions
Using a water-born crop that grows at breakneck speed, an innovative cattle feed startup could reduce livestock emissions in a variety of ways. By reducing methane emissions from the bovine’s...
View ArticleThese Baby Shoes Dissolve In Water After Your Infant Outgrows Them, Saving...
A husband and wife in Oregon have designed baby shoes that melt away into water after an infant outgrows them. The silky fabric is actually made of a kind of water-soluble plastic that covers detergent...
View ArticleDuck alla Pest Control—This Horde of Ducks Have Been Protecting 140 Acres of...
An antique vineyard in South Africa has ditched toxic pesticides for a horde of hungry ducks, as they attempt to make their wines more sustainable. In reality, Vergenoegd Löw, the wine estate outside...
View ArticleBerlin’s Derelict Airport Undergoes Transformation to Become a Sustainable...
With 580 acres of ex-airport real estate now available, the area is being dreamed of as a sustainable neighborhood of wide open green spaces, bike lanes, and affordable efficient housing. After old...
View ArticleDutch Are Reducing Waste By Fixing Broken Objects With Online Local Barter...
Finding someone who can fix a broken piece of furniture, mend clothing, or repair a family treasure has become easier thanks to a new online platform. The guilder is a repair exchange platform,...
View ArticleDomino’s Finally Settles Argument of Whether or Not You Can Recycle Pizza Boxes
Domino’s are now delivering their pizzas in boxes on which are printed specific recycling instructions for the customer’s area. Believe it or not, literally billions of corrugated cardboard pizza boxes...
View ArticleSustainable 3D-Printed Ranch House Wins Award and Takes Just Two Weeks to...
A team consisting of architects and engineers are cleaning up on the homebuilding award circuit with House Zero, a 3D-printed house that seamlessly blends traditional and futuristic design. A...
View ArticleVolvo Launches 3 New Massive Electric Truck Models for Heavy Duty Uses,...
Imagine a truck that only emits water vapor, produces its own electricity onboard and has a range of up to 600 miles. Volvo have made it possible with fuel cells powered by hydrogen, and during this...
View ArticleJet Fuel Derived From Used Cooking Oil Certified Airworthy for Large-Scale...
A Chinese petroleum company just obtained an airworthiness certificate for their new biological jet fuel made of used cooking oil. It will be the first time that large scale production of bio jet fuel...
View ArticleOver 75% of Brits Say They’re Greener Today Than They Were 10 Years Ago: Poll
A poll of 2,000 adults found three-quarters of respondents said they were greener today than they were a decade ago—with a large majority believing they have a responsibility to live a sustainable...
View ArticleScientists Have Used Mushrooms to Make Biodegradable Computer Chip Parts
The skin off the legs of a mushroom could potentially offer a sustainable alternative to insulative substrates in computing chips. As production of electronic devices continues to increase, scientists...
View ArticleWorld’s First Hovering Robot That Collects Rare Minerals From Sea Floor...
With the need for critical battery minerals growing, a company has proved that sustainable ocean mining is possible with a discriminating robot miner. Below the waves, seafloors are covered in...
View ArticleGenius UK Business Uses Christmas Trees to Protect the Region From Flooding
In an effort to combat flooding, a Yorkshire woman realized that thousands of wasted Christmas trees every year could be used as natural flood protection, and started a unique business to do just that....
View ArticleTwo-Thirds Feel Guilty For Getting Rid of Sentimental Items, So Resale Stores...
Most of the items within the average American household arrived there secondhand, a new poll suggests—with 66% reporting that more than half of the items in their home were previously owned by someone...
View ArticleAviation Startup ZeroAvia Flies Largest-Ever Hydrogen Electric Aircraft
An aviation start-up just set a new world-first for the largest hydrogen-powered aircraft flight in history—a 19-seat aircraft called the Dornier 228. Designed by ZeroAvia, the start-up is developing...
View ArticleMaking Building Materials Out of Fast-Growing Grasses Capture More Carbon...
A startup looking to find better ways to mass-produce lumber for construction has swapped trees for grass. It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and molding machines, the fibers of certain...
View ArticleTurning Problematic Sea Algae into a Replacement for Plastic in Common Products
After a Finnish scuba diver saw how harmful out-of-control algae blooms could be to the marine environment below their green clouds, she founded a refining company that harvests the algae and turns it...
View Article92-Year-old Helped His Indian Neighbors Save 200,000 Liters of Water And Cut...
A 92-year-old Mumbai man took action to transform his housing society with renewable energy and rainwater catches, saving the residents thousands. In the year 2000, Navin Chandra moved into the Sealine...
View ArticleTasty Burgers and Steaks Made of Mycelium Are New Healthy Food Alternative to...
In an effort to renew alternatives to meat in the wake of collapsing shares and sales of veggie meat and their companies, one man is looking at mycelium—the fibrous root structure of a lifeform much...
View ArticleUS Mail to be Delivered in 9,000 New Electric Vehicles, With USPS Installing...
The US Postal Service is going to try and reduce its carbon footprint by buying 9,000 new Ford electric vehicles. To support the new EVs, the USPS will construct 14,000 additional charging stations in...
View ArticleThe Biggest EV Battery Recyling Plant Opens in the US
In Covington, Georgia, a 30,000-ton-per-year recycling facility for batteries and battery scrap just switched on the disassembly line for the very first time. Inside its walls, a Massachusetts-based...
View Article66% of Americans Willing to Try Anything That Can Help Save the Environment’,...
Three in five Americans care just as much about saving the environment as they do about saving money. As part of a recent survey into the sustainability habits of 2,000 U.S. residents, 64% of those...
View Article‘Sliding Home’ With Flexible Design Can Open to Glass in Summer and Enclose...
This $1 million ‘sliding home’ might have the perfect solution for temperamental weather—it adapts to the changing seasons by exposing its glass structure in summer and closing back up for a cozy...
View ArticleCompostable Plastic Wrap Made from Seaweed Can Withstand Heat–and Biodegrade...
An invasive seaweed species from the Caribbean has been turned into a compostable plastic wrap that has the potential for mass production. Furthermore, it may have the properties to transform the whole...
View ArticleRecycle Any Device For Free: Apple, Google, Staples, Walmart, Best Buy Are...
“You make it, you recycle it.” A new poll found that half of Americans believe major companies need to be accountable for the waste their products generate—and five of the biggest corporations on the...
View ArticleVisionary Gardener Turns Piles of Beached Seaweed Into Bricks for Sustainable...
While tourists visiting Mexican beaches complain about piles of smelly seaweed, one Mexican gardener reckoned it was something like a gift. The governments in places like Cancun have been required to...
View ArticleWhen Architect Asks AI to Design Futuristic Skyscrapers It Proposed a...
An Indian architect was excited about the potential for AI to enhance the creativity of city architecture, and he asked an image bot to generate a vision for the future of cities. All he had to do was...
View ArticleStunning ‘House of Arches’ Uses Gorgeous Geometry to Keep Three Generations...
In northwest India, an architectural firm cleaned house on the award circuit with a truly sumptuous family home built to stay naturally cool in 104°F (40°C) heat. At nearly 10,000 square feet of...
View ArticleInstead of Demolishing its Tallest Building, Australia Saved Tons of CO2 With...
In 2014, the Australian firm AMP Capital launched a bold and bizarre call to action to the architectural community of Sydney—replace their skyscraper headquarters without demolishing it. They wanted...
View ArticleShredded Diapers Could Replace 40% of Concrete Sand in Construction–Without...
Seeking to find sustainable solutions to low-cost housing in Indonesia, scientists in the world’s third-most-populous nation hypothesized that used diapers could, if one can believe it, replace some of...
View ArticleCreating Electricity From Moisture in the Air, Even in the Sahara Desert
A totally science-fiction device developed by scientists in Massachusetts would allow people to pull electricity out of thin air. Back in 2020, GNN reported on an exciting experimental technology...
View ArticleParis Olympics Gets 11,000 Stadium Seats Made of Recycled City Plastic
Spectators of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be watching the aquatic events from seats made of plastic collected in recycling bins from around the area. In fact, 80% of the 100 metric tons of...
View ArticleAirbnb Will Chip In for Its Hosts’ Green Upgrades
In May, Airbnb began helping its hosts in Massachusetts afford climate-friendly or energy-efficient home improvements, such as insulation, rooftop solar arrays, or heat pumps. Airbnb is partnering with...
View ArticleAn Infinitely Recyclable Plastic Could Solve the World’s Pollution Problem
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new infinitely recyclable plastic that could be the answer to the world’s growing pollution problem. They’ve engineered microbes...
View ArticleIndia Approves $7 Billion For 10,000 Electric Buses to Clean Air in 170 Cities
Last Wednesday, India’s federal government approved nearly $7 billion for a nationwide plan to equip the biggest cities in the country with electric buses. The plan aims to help cut down on air...
View ArticleCompany Devises Ingenious Method of Repurposing Old Wind Turbines: ‘The...
With the first generation of wind turbines well into a period of decommissioning, questions about what to do with the massive fiberglass blades is a pressing one for an industry that markets itself as...
View ArticleWorld’s First Electric Aircraft Flight Powered by New Liquid Hydrogen–Flew...
The world’s first piloted flight of an electric aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen has taken place. H2FLY, the Stuttgart Germany-based developer of hydrogen-electric powertrain systems for aircraft...
View ArticleWater and Pesticide Use Cut Nearly in Half After ‘Better Cotton’ Helps...
It’s everyone’s favorite fabric—and over the last decade it’s become way more sustainable. Better Cotton just published a major annual impact report highlighting significant progress in India that has...
View ArticleNew Color-Changing Coating Inspired by Chameleons ‘Could cool and warm...
The search has intensified for alternative energy-saving technologies for heating and cooling that don’t run on fossil fuels. Now, by mimicking a desert-dwelling chameleon, Chinese scientists have...
View ArticleNASA May Have Just Cracked the Code for Replacing Lithium in Batteries:...
Along with routinely launching robots across the final frontier, NASA is also involved in sustainable aviation research, and this division may have cracked the code to creating a lighter, safer battery...
View ArticleSwedish Firm Will be Mailing Flat-Packed Car with Top Speed of 55 for Urban...
It isn’t likely to be your next home DIY project, but there is a company that’s looking to turn IKEA’s flat-packed furniture design into cars. The Swedish vehicle start-up Luvly is finishing up its...
View ArticleAmazon.com Now Builds Packaging to Fit Items And Cut Waste—With...
Retail giant Amazon.com has developed a weather-resistant paper that stretches into the shape of a package, in order to cut waste—and it can be heat-sealed like plastic, without using glue. A sensor...
View ArticleBreakthrough in Recycling EV Batteries Can Recover 100% of Aluminum and 98%...
Swedish researchers say they have developed a new method of recycling batteries from electric vehicles that allows recovery of 100 percent of the aluminum and 98 percent of the lithium. Researchers at...
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