Category: Green
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Burning the ivory is just the beginning
Jonathan and Angela Scott: After the ivory burn, it’s up to all of us to make sure the pledges made there are honoured
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Leopards have lost 75% of their historical habitat
New research shows the big cats’ global range has shrunk by a shocking amount over the last 250 years
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With Solarwave Yachts the only footprints you leave are those in the sand…
Sunwave & Solarwave or the true hybrid yachts. A conventionally powered boat has a range of 300 to 500 nautical miles under diesel-engine. With a sail the range can be extended – but only when the wind is coming from the right direction and in matching force. Most yachts are using gas for cooking. Its…
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Fighting climate change: 10 great tech ideas
Alongside mainstream tech solutions, a myriad of creative approaches have been developed as firms innovate to save the planet
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Greenhouse in the sky: inside Europe’s biggest urban farm
A disused office in The Hague has been revamped as a sprawling rooftop greenhouse, with a fish farm operating on the floor below. Are we entering a new age of urban agriculture?
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Olafur Eliasson and the power of the sun
First Olafur Eliasson invented the Little Sun solar-powered lamp for parts of the world without electricity (and Glastonbury). Now the artist has come up with a solar-powered phone charger