Covid has taught us one thing. We love to cook at home and we need to have fresh, meaningful and healthy food at our fingertips. Making your kitchen a great place to cook and hang out in at the heart of your home is a big step towards a very sustainable home.
Climate scientists call for a plastic diet, asking governments to cap production.
After taking a deep dive in the fishing industry, dolphin bycatch is being ignored and not reported.
Are you planning a new decentralised currency that can mitigate climate change? Or one that helps developing nations? Learn how to build and invest in the right way for the planet.
To help farmers evaluate the impact carbon sequestration and other practices might have on their businesses, the Institute is developing a decision support tool
DuPont, the chemicals company that makes teflon, lycra, polyester, and lucite, will now be making artificial salmon, using spirulina, a type of algae.
April's biggest bargain is fresh, green garlic
Masdar, a renewable energy company that built the net-zero energy city under its namesake, along with Hassan Allam Utilities, are investing in the future of renewable energy. They announced just now that they will develop green hydrogen production plants in the Suez Canal Economic Zone and on the Mediterranean coast.
Studies have shown animals use flavour as a guide to the vitamins and minerals they require. If flavour serves a similar role for humans, then we may be imbuing junk foods such as potato chips and fizzy drinks with a false ‘sheen’ of nutrition by adding flavourings to them. In other words, the food industry may be turning our nutritional wisdom against us, making us eat food we would normally avoid and thus contributing to the obesity epidemic.
The Road Train can help you get better fuel efficiency. Using a GPS can help as well.
Small businesses are better for the economy than mega-corporations. Read how.
The Iranian city now passes as one of the world's most polluted cities, as smog, dust and smoke overcomes it.
People like Beth Moon who took this shot travel the world photographing trees. If Instagram is how you grow your eco and green business, find new ways to keep the business flowing while freeing up some of the time needed for social media.
Plants from the past and used in the Bible may help us against modern ailments. Research studies to produce medicines capable of fighting COVID-19 from frankincense trees in Oman are being jointly undertaken by the University of Nizwa in Oman and the University of Oxford in England
There are wild ingredients found in your home that are now under threat. Brazil nuts, argan oil, and shea butter are now classified among a dozen wild, threatened and at risk plants known as flagship species that need protecting.
Feel you are reaching out to a forest of abyss? Even greentech companies like solar energy need good sales skills. Here's how to find the dream job.
Covid has created a lot of loss, pain, depression and anxiety. Some people have turned to safer self-medicating using CBD, others need help with harder problems.
Cannabis oil is a natural medicine that can have a profound affect on mediating pain and anxiety. One of the latest ways of delivering the medicine is by "dabbing" which is basically vaporizing cannabis oil.
Team building to change the world! The best renewable energy companies are ones that function.
The UN's climate change conference, with the worst names, COP27, will happen in Egypt this year.
The city of Tel Aviv has installed a pilot of LumiWeave, a flexible and lightweight solar energy shade and energy system in Atidim Park in Tel Aviv to provide shade during the day and illuminate your path at night.
With the Middle East’s bountiful amounts of sunshine, solar energy is a prominent resource and wind, with Saudi Arabia’s $500 million Dumat Al-Jandal wind farm breaking ground in 2020. It may seem counterintuitive to find a region with so many natural gas and oil stores pivoting to renewable energy, but while these energy methods are finite, creating sustainable technology will create lasting energy solutions for the future.
When you order from an online store consider the environmental impact needed to bring your goods to your home.
The water bong is easily associated with a stereotype of "lazy pothead" but it's actually an important low-tech tool for administering cannabis as medicine to the elderly. It's clean, simple and easy to dose quickly and precisely, unlike ingesting which has slow release and sometimes overly powerful effects.
A lack of Covid restrictions has made Florida a favorable state in times of trouble. In eco-terms, it's more energy-efficient to live there over Toronto. Lean more about relocating.