Landmine detection using lasers and engineered glow bacteria
Glow bacteria are engineered and activated to sniff out nitrogen oxide, a gas emitted from old landmines
Green Tech and Gadgets
Finding Covid outbreaks in your street sewers
Kando sends sensors into a sewer find Covid-19 hotspots in your towns and cities. Should we bring one into the White House?
Berkey Water Filter: What You Need to Know
The Brita takes too much effort. And all that plastic! How about a non-electric Berkey Water Filter for your kitchen? Takes out the stuff you don't want, leaves the good stuff in.
How to save money by switching energy supplier
Every home should feel like an eco oasis, and it can be done by saving energy. Here's how it can be done.
Should You Start a Greenhouse Business to Help the Environment?
There are numerous reasons to start a greenhouse business, and nearly all those reasons have environmental benefits.
Ventilation System with Heat Recovery To Help Combat Covid-19
The outbreak of Covid-19, and the impact it has had on the world, has changed the way we live and how we think about many social situations. Masks are becoming more and more common when people are outdoors and in public spaces. The air we breathe has suddenly come under extra scrutiny. The strength of […]
Electronic waste getting worse, up 20% in 5 years
Last year’s e-waste weighed substantially more than all the adults in Europe, or as much as 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2. Another metric: 15 pounds for ever person on earth, every year.
Solar “helicopter” moves quick and in 3 dimensions to catch the sun
The “Helicopter” can even function inside a room collecting the sun as the rays hit the open space.
Investing in bifacial and tracking solar systems safe bet for future
Using data from NASA, double sided, tilting solar panels create 35% more energy, on average, than immobile single-panel photovoltaic systems, while reducing the cost of electricity by an average of 16%.
Las Vegas Going Green in a Quest to Become Saudi Arabia of Solar Power
A green oasis in the desert? Las Vegas is shedding its old image and preparing for a future without fossil fuels Las Vegas is a town built around big ambitions, its founders turning an arid wilderness into the premier entertainment paradise in the world. However, in recent times it has been undergoing something of an […]
Corona expected to benefit ESG investments
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout will trigger a ‘skyward surge’ in sustainable, responsible and impactful investing over the next 12 months, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations. The prediction from the boss of deVere Group, which has more than $12bn under advisement, comes as Bloomberg analysis […]
Tests for corona will be part of the boot kit for surviving this
A lot of harm to the healthcare system and to the economy could be put at ease if there were easier and more rapid tests the population could take.
Important Ways Through Which Commercial Robots are Disrupting the Construction Industry
Daugava river, Latvia. A construction robot working where manual crews can't reach.
Reasons why interested candidates should study engineering
Artificial Intelligence is used in this biodome to grow bio-organic food with zero waste using the Eddy robot by flux. The robotic solution was developed by a team of Israeli engineers.
Sustainable Thread, Now with Israeli Startup Twine
An Israeli startup can dramatically reduce water and air pollution from the fashion industry with a new technology for dyeing thread.
Solar Generators – Clean Energy At Home
Maybe you dream of living off-grid? If you don't have the wind, you will need the sun. The pros and cons of buying a solar generator.
How Helpful is Technology When it Comes to Securing Your Home
You probably don't live in a grass hut in the middle of nowhere, so even as a green-minded person really need to think about common everyday things like keeping criminals out of your house.
The Great Race to Rule Streaming TV
Forest bathing is the best thing you can do in your down time (the Japanese do it, it's a thing!) but if not nature then a good nature show on Netflix, Amazon or... ? Where to choose?
A Sustainable Towel That Cleans You AND The World!
Can a website dedicated to crowdfunding new green businesses make a measurable impact on our planet? Park your cynicism and take another look at Kickstarter where simple environmental innovations seek investors for affordable green products that help us make easy positive change. Meet the Pangea bamboo towel. Is Pangea the “ultimate adventure towel”? My biggest […]
Science can can implant new memories in your brain
Movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind show us what it's like when painful emotional memories are erased. But can positive ones be implanted too? A new study from Israel says yes. They have done it in animals.
How to Create Buzz Around Your Product with Instagram
If you want to increase product sales, one of the best ways you can do that is to create buzz around your product with Instagram. If you’re just getting started with the social media platform, then you can use a powerful Instagram bot or buy likes on Instagram to help fuel your account growth while […]
Deadly worm invades Middle East, The UN wants $500 million attack fund
Fall Armyworm is invading the Near Middle East. New reporting app aims to mitigate risk, spread awareness. Have a half billion to spare? The UN is fundraising.
American irrigation research finds watering sweet spot for agriculture and earth
Every drop counts in the Middle East and North Africa. How can we learn to better manage water on national scales. Some new research offers tips.
Israeli Startup SG Tech Manufactures Clean Energy From Cow Patties
Israeli startup SG Tech created a technology that creates energy and fuel from cow patties, with almost no residual waste.
UN applies agricultural tech innovation to improve drought resilience for farmers
Today is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought celebrations, and the FAO's Graziano da Silva said: "It is quite impossible to avoid a drought from happening, but we can avoid a drought turning into famine or displacement of people."