Want to Save Earth? Cut Out Meat
The developed world needs to cut meat consumption by 50 percent per person to reduce greenhouse gasses, finds a study. Stabilizing nitrous oxide in the atmosphere will require halving meat...
View ArticleWorld Environment Day 2015: 10 easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint and...
Go veggie Around 18% of greenhouse gases are caused by global meat production, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. A 2014 study of British people’s diets by the University of Oxford...
View ArticleA Magical Paper Prevents Your Food From Rotting
Are you always worrying about not managed to eat the food before it has gone bad? A high school student from India, Kavita Shukla, has invented a kind of special food wrap, named as “FreshPaper”, to...
View ArticlePeepoople – A mobile toilet bag improves sanitation
Today, more than 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. At this moment, 40% of the world’s population lack access to even the simplest latrine. The lack of sanitation creates tremendous...
View ArticleMaya Penn: Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, and activist
Maya Penn started her first company when she was 8 years old, and thinks deeply about how to be responsible both to her customers and to the planet. She wants to share her story, some animations, some...
View ArticleYou Can Take this Little Wind and Solar Powered Home Anywhere
If life in a future megacity isn’t for you, your hour of escape is fast approaching. Especially if you don’t mind living alone in a 14 x 7 x 7-foot pod. Well, what if I told you the view was...
View ArticleFree Hugs Campaign: Spread the Love To Strangers
Have you ever felt our society is but growing colder and people are nonchalant to each other? Have you ever had a bad day and all you want is some comfort and encouragement? An Australian man known as...
View ArticleDenmark generating 140% of national electricity needs
So much power was produced by Denmark’s windfarms on Thursday that the country was able to meet its domestic electricity demand and export power to Norway, Germany and Sweden. On an unusually windy...
View ArticleFloating, Water-Filtering Greenhouse
As the global population surges to almost 10 billion in the next four decades, we’ll have to grow as much as 70% more food at the same time that many places are running out of both arable land and...
View ArticleHomelessFonts – Typefaces created by the homeless in Barcelona
HomelessFonts is a project initiated by Arrels Foundation to create an artistic set of typeface collection inspired by the handwriting of homesless people living on the streets of Barcelona, Spain....
View ArticleSweden – Food powder made from expired produce may help end world hunger
The global amount of food wasted each year is an estimated 1.76 billion tons — that’s $750 billion in terms of economic loss, according to the United Nations. A group of international masters students...
View Article‘We The People’ for The Global Goals
A new plan for people and planet has just launched – the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Tell everyone! add your very own intro to this star-studded video and share it with the world:...
View ArticleWorld Food Day at Expo Milano 2015
World Food Day at Expo Milano 2015 The official celebration of World Food Day this year at Expo Milano 2015 is promising to be one of the World Exposition’s biggest events. UN Secretary-General Ban...
View ArticleLauren Fletcher: One Billion Trees a Year to Fight against Deforestation
The shortfall in reforestation of trees is alarming—26 billions tress are cut down each year while 15 million are replanted. To reverse the damages humans have made in hundreds of years of...
View ArticleBen Bronsema: The Building Itself Is An Air Conditioner
An electric air-conditioning system inside a large building can be noisy, pricey and take up a large amount of space—So how about a “non-electric” one? Ben Bronsema developed the concept of “Earth,...
View ArticleOffice Go Green: A paper recycling printer
Seiko Epson’s PaperLab launched an 8.5-foot-wide device that turns used paper into clean white sheets, is set to go on sale next year. If so, your office paper recycling bin could soon become...
View ArticleFake Palm Oil Made From Food Waste Help to Save Orangutans
That’s been a long-term problem for orangutans, which happen to live in the same Indonesian rainforests that are bulldozed to make way for palm oil plantations. So now researchers are working an...
View ArticlePurify water and generating energy
There are about 780 million of people in the world cannot get access to clean water. They often are also the group that lacks electricity in their daily life. A 17-year-old girl from Australia,...
View ArticleTalk by your breath
There is approximately 1.4% of world population suffering from developmental disabilities such as LIS and ALS. The disease causes them to almost entirely paralyze and disables them to communicate...
View ArticleTurning Plastic Bottles to Travel Bags
Hamilton Perkins Collection is a certified B Corporation®, offering designer travel bags at an affordable price, while holding the highest standards of social and environmental performance,...
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