Category: Green
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We are eating shrimp in record numbers. But for how much longer?
Shrimpers have a long and proud cultural tradition in the US – one that is now under threat from all sides
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Food-waste firm bags Oprah Winfrey and Katy Perry as investors
US startup Apeel Sciences raises further $250m to help tackle supply chain disruption
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Conserve, reuse, retrofit, and recycle are prominent themes running across each 2020 Green Good Design winner
The 2020 Green Good Design Winners. For 2020, 100 product design, graphics, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, together with visionary leaders, were awarded GREEN GOOD DESIGN from 20 nations. A sustainable Rado watch, medical equipment, lighting, a thermoelectric refrigerator, faucets and plumbing fixtures, home and office furniture, a power plant, transportation hubs,…
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Turning the old into the new: Seat upholstery made of PET
From bottle to fabric: Seat upholstery made of PET. More than 100 PET bottles in a single A3. The fashion industry produces jewelry, clothes and bags from PET bottles. Premium car manufacturer Audi is now offering seat upholstery made from recycled material for the new Audi A3 for the first time. Seat upholstery…
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Three urban gardening solutions bringing the trend of vertical agriculture to life
Turning city rooftops into urban farms and starting indoor vegetable gardens are some of the solutions we have to produce more food but always in a sustainable way. Here are two startups from Station F Paris, the world’s biggest startup campus, that are proposing urban agriculture as alternative solutions and a plant…
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Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge has opted for a virtual version
For yachting fans the meeting is still on, behind computer screens, from 30th June to 4 th July 2020, lifting the veil on what’s new at this highly anticipated 7th Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge. Given the coronavirus crisis situation and to continue supporting the hard work already put in by teams,…