Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd. and drone delivery company Flirtey are currently testing drone deliveries of pizzas outside of Auckland, New Zealand. In ...
Urban farm helps healing the homeless in California
“Grow Good”is a small (one-acre) urban farm growing greens, fruits and herbs in California. This year the farm has produced 2,720 kilograms of ...
Burlington is the first American all-renewable-energy city
The city of Burlington, Vermont, has 42,000 residents who are all provided with power that comes from hydroelectric, a plant, four wind turbines and a ...
The rural exodus to Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka
Due to low incomes and environmental threats, every year about half a million people are moving from the countryside to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. ...
New app to mitigate food waste
A new app is designed to promote last-minute food deals which is supposed to save perishables. To donate cooked food leftovers from the day’s ...
Leading fisheries companies agreed on sustainabilty deal
Eight global fisheries companies have adopted the “Soneva Joint Declaration”. The agreement was signed after a roundtable conference in the Maldives. ...
Cloud computing against the water crisis
Researchers at University of Oxford developed a way to connect water pumps to the cloud. It helps UNICEF and other agencies to monitor the water supply and ...
A food tax against climate change and a healthier diet
A food tax is discussed to be introduced to reduce the consumption of high-emission products. Especially animal products would be concerned which through ...
EU plans to spend 320m Euro for ocean energy
The European Union plans to fund 320 million Euro to the ocean energy industry to to provide a tenth of the power by 2050. 250 million Euro are ...
How to combine housing with agriculture: an example of agritecture
Urban gardening has been a trend for some time now and architects have started to pick up and incorporate it in the design of new buildings. The Vietnamese ...
