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GREEN NEWS · 17. gennaio 2021
A new type of modified wood could have an important place in the architecture of the future. What's special about it? It is transparent and not only transmits light but absorbs and releases heat and is also biodegradable. A group of researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden have been working on the technology for three years. Led by Lars Berglund they managed to create a particular type of transparent material by removing the lignin from the cell walls of balsa...
GREEN NEWS · 16. gennaio 2021
If you think that a huge cruise ship, capable of carrying hundreds of people on the water, only needs powerful and polluting diesel engines to move, you may be wrong. Judging by the colossal electric boat we are about to talk to you about, in fact, there are now technologies capable of making these vehicles a little "cleaner" too. The Yangtze River Three Gorges 1 will in fact be the largest zero-impact cruise ship ever built in the world. An ambitious project, on which it is worth pausing to...
GREEN NEWS · 03. gennaio 2021
The main flaw of the electric car is the low battery life, a limit that the British government seems determined to overcome. To do this, the British company Highways England is experimenting with a technology to recharge electric cars on the go. The cars will be charged by induction with wireless technology : electric coils placed under the road surface will create a magnetic field which, converted into electric current, will be able to recharge the car's batteries. The innovative aspect is not...
GREEN NEWS · 03. gennaio 2021
In the north of the Netherlands there is a small town which with its particularity is known as 'Venice of the North', or 'Green Venice': the latter name is perhaps the most appropriate as Giethoorn, as the country is called, can be described as an immense expanse of green grass, furrowed by dozens of channels that cross in a dense web. In the eyes of visitors it appears as an idyllic place, also thanks to the fact that no cars, motorcycles or any other motor vehicle circulate inside. The only...
GREEN NEWS · 02. gennaio 2021
Forget the conventional solar panels, flat with a rectangular texture, the future embraces new alternative projects and opens up to rounded but far more productive shapes. The Cool Earth company has developed solar globes that are able to produce up to 400 times more energy than traditional panels : this is a great revolution, also revealed by the Clean Energy XXI report. The extraordinary production of these innovative tools for renewable energy is mainly due to the spherical shape and...
GREEN NEWS · 02. gennaio 2021
Years ago, the creatives of the i-beam design studio began to reflect on the possibility of reusing pallets in a more elaborate and professional way than the forms of recycling we are used to. They have thus created the basic project of a home equipped with all comforts and above all achievable within a day. The encouraging fact from which they started is that 84% of the world's refugees could build a small house like this just using the pallets found in the United States. The first project was...
GREEN NEWS · 02. gennaio 2021
Bernice Dapaah is a young entrepreneur from Ghana who, shortly after finishing her studies, founded a company based on the social economy, which aims to harmonize market freedom and social justice.
GREEN NEWS · 01. gennaio 2021
The stories of wild animals making friends with men and women who treat them as if they were ordinary domestic creatures will never cease to amaze us. Sometimes it seems that certain people and certain animals are able to give the world splendid demonstrations of how deep the bond that is created between them can be, beyond all difficulties, differences or mistrust. The story we are about to tell you, in this sense, is truly a textbook example. Who are the protagonists? A Russian man named Ivan...
GREEN NEWS · 22. dicembre 2020
Winning the inaugural Sustainability Award of the James Dyson Award 2020, 27-year-old Carvey Ehren Maigue is the mind behind AuREUS System Technology - a new material, made from waste crop, which converts UV light into renewable energy. After discovering he won the Award, we caught up with Carvey to hear about his journey so far, the inspiration behind his invention, what lies ahead and why persistence is key. Congratulations on winning the first Sustainability Award of the James Dyson Award...
GREEN NEWS · 15. dicembre 2020
Over 4 billion people live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least one month of the year. Over a billion people spend several hours a day searching for water, wasting precious time and putting them in frequent danger. Some of this scarcity has led to violence and conflict, especially in Africa, Southern Asia and the Middle East. The Syrian conflict was triggered by a years-long drought.