Archive for the ‘sustainability’ category: Page 427
Mar 3, 2020
Bill Gates-Led Fund Invests in Synthetic Palm Oil Startup
Posted by Dean Eaketts in categories: biotech/medical, food, sustainability
C16 Biosciences uses yeast to convert food waste and industrial byproducts into a sustainable alternative.
Mar 3, 2020
Freeman Dyson, 1923–2020
Posted by Future Timeline in categories: physics, solar power, sustainability
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4TCg4vsz6Ac
Reeman Dyson, one of the 20th century’s greatest theoretical physicists, died this week aged 96. He is known for popularising the Dyson Sphere – a hypothetical megastructure that could surround an entire star, capturing all of its solar energy.
Mar 2, 2020
Musk Reads: Tesla Model 3 range gets a big boost
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: sustainability, transportation
Tesla Model Y deliveries draw closer and the Cybertruck appeals to police. When is a 600-mile Model S arriving? It’s Musk Reads: Tesla Edition #146.
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Mar 1, 2020
How regenerative agriculture could help save the planet
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: food, sustainability
A quiet revolution is reshaping the agricultural world, with farmers like Danie Slabbert saying that if we want to save the planet, it’s not so much about what we eat, but how we farm. CNN’s David McKenzie reports.
Mar 1, 2020
AI can help find more places to store captured CO2 underground
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability
Mar 1, 2020
CropBox: A Farm in a Shipping Container
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: food, sustainability
CropBox is a shipping container farm system featuring the latest technology in precision farming.
Mar 1, 2020
This Superyacht Produces Hydrogen From Seawater As It Sails
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: particle physics, sustainability
The world’s first self-sufficient sea vessel, Energy Observer, is due to leave her home port of Saint-Malo in Brittany, France, over the next few days on the first leg of a global voyage to test and promote renewable energy technologies.
This isn’t just any yacht though, it uses nothing but renewable energy sources to run. Specifically, it produces hydrogen from seawater with zero CO2 emissions and zero fine particles.
Feb 28, 2020
The Future of Fashion Is Circular: Why the 2020s Will Be About Making New Clothes Out of Old Ones
Posted by Maico Rivero in categories: economics, sustainability
In the next decade, designers and consumers will need to radically shift their perspectives on value and commit to a circular economy based on recycling, upcycling, and repurposing what already exists.