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Nuclear Energy: The New Generation in China
Source: Google Images This summer, the first of Japan’s 50 nuclear reactors – the Ohi nuclear plant – reopened 14 months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since the tsunami in March last...
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The Path to Maximum Energy Potential Means Embracing Biofuels
Can biofuels still be the magical solution to our energy problems? Thousands of scientists will admit that biofuels are no longer a new concept (in fact, it is a very old idea). From the ‘first...
View ArticleBio and fuel? Up-to-date View on Biofuels with Philippa Usher
Biofuels are nowadays very controversial, even if they promise a lot. That is why Adam Wong – who helped me for the preparation of the interview and who filmed it – and I took the chance to talk to a...
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From the Industrial Revolution to Communication Technologies – What is the...
Dr. James Bradfield Moody was the last, but far from the least, speaker at the panel session of the opening day of the 2012 World Resources Forum, which included Rocky Mountain Institute Chairman and...
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While the World is Going Online, the Earth May Be Going Down
Several problems are being talked about when it comes to the Internet. We speak about one’s addiction to it, about the isolation it provokes – all connected, but all alone – about the risks of our data...
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A 4P Future: People, Planet, Profit, and Plastics
“Don’t say no to plastic. Say no to plastic which is non-degradable.” Speaking at a TEDx conference in his home country of Indonesia last year, Sugianto Tandio – President Director of PT Tirta Marta –...
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Youth for Technology Foundation: Reinvigorating Rural Communities through...
When Njideka Harry answers the phone, her voice is warm and smooth. As she begins to tell me about the foundation she started twelve years ago, her tone conveys both humility and confidence. Before...
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For Inveneo, Addressing the Global Digital Divide Calls for Business, Not...
Children in Maasai Mara, Kenya use technology deployed by Inveneo, a nonprofit social enterprise. Photo courtesy of Inveneo. A rumor that the FCC released a proposal last month for nation-wide, free,...
View ArticleFinding the Needle in the Haystack: The Story of Refugees United
For Refugees United, 10 minutes is worth more than 10 dollars. It may sound like an odd approach for raising money, when it is a product that the majority of the donors will never have any use for. But...
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The Making of South Pole Carbon: How to Become a Social Entrepreneur?
Many people dream of starting their own business. Some do it to make money and some want to make a difference to the social and environmental issues that matter to them. How does one then become a...
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Switzerland’s First Zero-Carbon Technology Park
FRIBOURG, Switzerland – Square glass buildings are silhouetted against a green city park and glistening blue pond. They are towered over by a building whose sides are equipped with prominent solar...
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Fast Times in Vilnius’s Electrolanes
Wikimedia CommonsElectric vehicles charging. VILNIUS, Lithuania – Gintautas, a successful businessmen working in the heart of Vilnius, had gotten used to the Lithuanian capital’s endless traffic jams....
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The Failure of Masdar City
Flying over the vast desert in Abu Dhabi, suddenly there appears Masdar City, a huge, geometrical complex with many glass buildings, as unreal as a Fata Morgana. It was designed to be the most...
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When Was the Last Time You Tweeted to Your Garbage Company?
10th August, 2010. The day when the first meaningful tweet from the garbage industry in the UK came out: “Don’t miss what happens when Viridor CEO Colin Drummond joins staff as part of Channel 4′s...
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Gamifying Sustainability: Fun and Games in All Seriousness
As newly appointed climate newbies, we enthusiastically start on our first task: To break the ice and get to know each other. “Do you have a cat at home?” someone says, “cat anybody? No, well then,...
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E-waste: The Real “Master Narrative”
“I wear brown clothes (different kinds of brown) and carry a grey backpack”, writes Yvan Schulz in an email before I’m about to meet him for an interview. He’s an anthropologist and PhD candidate who’s...
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Call for Applications: The Next Billion Forum by Quartz, New York, NY
Join us as we report on digital culture, tech startups, and how the “Next Billion” will be connected at The Next Billion Forum presented by Quartz in New York City. flickr / Gert-Jan Mes under Creative...
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Collective Intelligence: Using the Crowd to Make Us Smarter
Wikimedia CommonsSince its launch in the early 1990s, the Internet has changed the way we communicate, share information, and work. But for the past few years, our new connectivity has done something...
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Kenya’s “Silicon Savannah”: City in the Slum
State of the art glass skyscrapers, paved roads that go on for miles, pure air and water flowing in the greenest environment yet. Adjacent to this potentially lie dumpsites and open sewers blocked by...
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The CO2 Footprint of a Smartphone – How Far Can One Trace It?
It is not without good reason that the smartphone industry is so popular with sustainability experts; it is a huge industry, sure, but its social and behavioral aspects make it that much more...
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