A global study that examined the health of 300,000 children and the quality of watersheds across 35 countries including Bangladesh, Nigeria and Colombia ...
Coffee giants band up for UK recycling deal
Fourteen organisations, including Caffe Nero, Costa Coffee, Greggs, McDonald’s UK, Pret A Manger, and Starbucks, have announced a nationwide ...
How Hong Kong creatively solves water problems
Hong Kong has too little and too much water at the same time. On the one hand, the city has very few reliable sources of drinking water as there is no ...
A food tower for Singapore
Architect Owen Wee addressed overcrowding, food security and issues of community cohesion in one project. The Food Tower incorporates vertical farming with ...
Philadelphia gets world’s first solar powered indoor vertical farm
Metropolis Farms has constructed a 500 kilowatt solar array out of about 2000 solar panels on a roof in Philadelphia. Underneath that roof the company is ...
Evaporating water could power 70 percent of US
According to researchers at Columbia University, it is possible to generate enough energy to power 70 percent of the United States by using evaporating ...
The Dutch are paving streets with toilet paper, to great success
In the Netherlands, recycled toilet paper beginning to be used to pave streets in a more environmentally friendly manner. A 1-kilometer stretch of ...
Wetherspoons gets rid of plastic straws
To fight plastic pollution, pub chain JD Wetherspoons has announced a coming ban to plastic straws across 900 pubs located in the UK and Ireland by the ...
Chicago shows how to make cities flood resistent
In the wake of recent super storms, resilience for cities through the prevention of flooding has become more important than ever. For Chicago, flooding has ...
Green building certifications boost sustainability globally
To assess the sustainability of buildings, governmental bodies all over the world have implemented rating systems for the sustainability of buildings. As ...
