Urban farming, urban agriculture or urban ag as it is sometimes called, is about growing food in cities. It is about local people growing their own, often organic crops on rooftops and in neighborhood gardens, providing easy access to fresh, local food.
Crop wild relatives that have survived changing climates for millions of years may provide the solution to adapting wheat, humanity’s most widely grown crop, to climate change.
Increasing supplies of earth metals such as lithium and cobalt drive prices down. Good news, you might say. But it is holding back the energy transition.
Today’s hippest teen-brand Shein fashion is growing rapidly – and its internet-based recipe for success is top secret. And cheap. And toxic.
Perovskite, not silicon, is the future for harvesting solar energy. Several universities are currently working on breakthroughs and making great strides in improving the efficiency with which solar energy is generated.
A doubling of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause an increase in the average temperature on earth from 7 to even a maximum of 14 degrees.
Plans to fuel homes with hydrogen suffered a further blow as the first published lab tests reveal that leaks rise sharply when hydrogen is added to regular household fossil gas.
Economic hardliners who think money is more important than the climate face a yearly miscalculation of $38 trillion. Or six times the annual US budget. Or 150 times the wealth of Jeff Bezos per year. Say goodbye to economic growth. Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy […]
H&M and Zara jeans, hoodies, shorts and socks have been linked to large-scale illegal deforestation, land grabbing, violence and corruption.
It’s holiday planning time again. That can be fun, but a source of stress as well, especially if you are on a tight budget, or if you want to reduce your ecological footprint to the minimum. So why not be creative and set a new trend?