Pilgrims visiting the shrine of 19th century saint Sai Baba in Shridi, India have a new reason to stick around: The world's largest solar cooker. The $280,000 system, partially paid for by the Indian government, generates 3,500 kg of ...READ»
Update: John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today. You can read more about it here.
The Financial Times and sustainable development charity Forum for the Future announced the ...READ»
John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water to billions. The $5 solar-powered ...READ»
The financial crisis seems overwhelming, with dire warnings that things may still get worse, bailout or not. People are worried about what lies ahead for business, but believe it or not the news is not all bad. There are still ...READ»
Thousands of stamping feet will be doing the environment a little good from today, as a Japanese experiment that harnesses footfalls for generating power gets underway.The system consists of rubber mats and (presumably) piezo-electric ...READ»
I am taking the bullet train this morning from Tokyo to Kyoto to go speak at the 2008 Japanese TRIZ Symposium. While in Japan, I have also had the chance to meet with several members of the Japanese innovation community. It is ...READ»
Can a famously high-testosterone company, built on brash ads and male athletic fantasies, finally click with female customers? That's the challenge behind Nike Goddess, whose goal is a once-and-for-all shift in how the company sells to, designs for, and communicates with women.READ»
Last weekend The Drop: Urban Art Infill took to the streets of Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood with an expo of art and design marketed to the community-at-large.READ»
There won’t be too many major decisions made at this week’s UN climate summit, but close observers will be able to hear the conversation shift and watch battle lines being drawn for the new year.READ»
We've seen bamboo bikes and biodiesel-powered bamboo taxis, but this EV is the first we've seen that makes use of the fast-growing plant. Meguru, a rickshaw-like EV developed by Japanese companies Yodogawa and Kinki Knives ...READ»
Blog Action Day
COP 15,
the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December, must
agree at least the outline of a binding framework for global emissions
reductions. It has been billed as our ...READ»
Economists believe that market forces, not government policies, will provide the most efficient solutions to the looming global warming crises. But why wait for the market to tip the balances in the planet's favor when you can create ...READ»
Augmented Reality and wearable headset computer monitors--sounds like a tech marriage made in electronic heaven. Until now, it's often seemed like a clunky hardware-limited idea though. Then NTT DoCoMo arrived.READ»
Legal limits on greenhouse-gas emissions are coming fast, with a $1 trillion carbon market emerging. At the core: A cadre of young, idealistic Yale forestry grads. But will carbon offsets do anything to slow global warming?READ»
In the Fast Lane
By the time our July/August issue arrived in subscribers' mailboxes, cover girl Katie Hoff had broken the world record in the women's 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. Olympic trials, shaving 0.34 of a second ...READ»
Auden Schendler, author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Movement wastes no time telling us he has something to tell us. He opens his trenchant enviro counterpoint with a dirge. ...READ»
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ABU DHABI - Abu Dhabi Starts Work on US $22 Billion Zero-Carbon City
Abu Dhabi today broke ground on Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, ...READ»
The world today is facing an unprecedented set of crises.
The most recent to burst upon public awareness is that of global warming, and it is indeed a matter of urgency and of critical importance. We have, according to the ...READ»
At long last
Tata Motors has started selling its vaunted Nano. [For more on the launch, read "Tata Nano: Meet the World's Cheapest Car."] Market research suggests that the Nano may bring safer, four-wheeled ...READ»
