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The Roomba for solar panels goes public and is valued at $300M

A robot to clean PV photovoltaic solar panels, launched an initial public offering (IPO) on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), after successfully completed the public tender phase.

Computers now understand how to print smell

The scent of a woman? From being able to realistic flower or sea aromas to your vacation pictures on social media, giving computers the ability to interpret odors in the way that humans do could have an impact on environmental monitoring and the biomedical and food industries.

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

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 […]

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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 […]

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