Category: Green
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Skai – the world’s first zero-emission hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered aircraft
Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based Alakai Technologies is transforming the way the world moves through hydrogen-powered mobility. According to Alakai, hydrogen is the best energy source for air mobility. Co-designed by Designworks, the design innovation studio of BMW Group, Alakai’s Skai is a radically simple air mobility system designed to go from A to Anywhere. It…
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The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis: ‘a place where we never go outside’
Las Vegas is the fastest warming city in the United States. The city’s poorest residents are most at risk in the heat
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‘It’s scary’: wildlife selfies harming animals, experts warn
Concern in New Zealand that trend of taking photographs with penguins and other creatures is having impact on feeding, breeding and birth rates
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Can fashion keep its cool … and help save the planet?
The catwalk world of glamour and luxury hides a business that thrives on wasteful consumerism. Now the climate crisis is forcing a rethink
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Luxury yachting is not immune to the environmental crisis: Green boats at the 2019 Cannes Yachting Festival
Respect for the planet, preservation of the seas and oceans and concern to leave a smaller ecological footprint are now essential challenges for the yachting industries. While the transition may be slow, there is a real trend to create increasingly cleaner boats based on the model used for land vehicles, with…
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‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis