Tag: MIT

A guide to rewilding your cities

Tel Aviv has started giving away free fruit trees in a bid to re-wild its city and make it greener. They are calling it an urban food forest. Researchers from Berlin come up with a blueprint on how to green and re-wild your city. You could use this with new greening AI research from MIT to make your city remarkably green.

Climate change will reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space

MIT aerospace engineers have discovered that rising greenhouse gas emissions are altering the near-Earth space environment in ways that will gradually reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate in this region.

AI scientist gets full map of urban trees using Google Street View

A tree lab at MIT can predict using AI how trees can green a city, or how they will grow in time better serving city planners green plans.

Cool innovation shocks salt from sea water

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink! Desalinating sea water is a costly and energy consuming way of...

Copenhagen Wheel is like a dynamo rocket booster for bikes! [video]

Now there is a good reason not to buy an electric bike: the Copenhagen Wheel from the Senseable City...

Byproduct of Natural Gas Made Potable by US and Saudi Scientists

Water produced as a byproduct of natural gas extraction is one of the oil and gas industry's biggest waste...

DIY solar panels made from grass

MIT researchers say that soon all we'll need to harvest our vast solar resource is grass and stabilizing powder.  While...

Masdar Reps Head Stateside To Recruit Bright Green Talent

Masdar's big recruitment drive started at the UAE embassy in Washington D.C. The success of Masdar City and future...