Multiple leading retailers and food companies including Nestlé and Walmart have voiced their commitment to improve consumer confidence in the foods they ...
China tackles pollution in recycling industry
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and other government agencies have launched a campaign targeting small and substandard workshops which cause ...
Report says wind energy costs might drop by 50 percent
As part of DOE’s Atmosphere to Electrons initiative, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published a report that examines the future of ...
First ‘forest city’ build in China
China is quite ambitious when it comes to implementing new urban mega-projects. ‘Liuzhou Forest City’, a new city project will attempt at ...
Hoodmaps stereotypes cities to help you find what you are looking for
The crowdsourced, color-coded map Hoodmaps lets users draw and highlight parts of cities depending on what kind of city-dweller they think is most likely ...
Richard Florida on new typologies of American neighborhoods
Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist and best known for his concept on the creative class, points to a new study by the geographer Elizabeth ...
India’s river-linking project about to start
India will soon commence work on an $87 billion scheme to connect nearly 60 rivers, some of the country’s biggest among them, government sources say ...
Toyota introduces scrappage scheme after Ford
Toyota is now the second carmaker to launch a scrappage scheme to encourage drivers to trade in their most polluting cars for environmetally friendly ...
Circular economy – more profit and sustainability at the same time
To improve on sustainability for many still seems to be closely connected to reducing efficiency. A growing number of companies are however proofing that ...
Can crowdsourced public transport transform intercity travel?
Crowdsourced bus services are a new phenomenon in the UK where customers suggest trips they would like to take on an app or platform and the company ...
