9 Results for: coal

The Global Coal Exit List: The Digital Database Encouraging Impact Divestment

A German NGO is tackling the fossil fuels problem at the source - with the "Global Coal Exit List", an invaluable digital database that encourages influential investors to stop supporting the coal industry.

A New Form of Carbon Capture: Turning CO2 Back Into Coal at Room Temperature

Returning to a pre-industrial era before we started burning coal to try and avert climate change might sound like the stuff of dreams for some environmentalists. Now researchers in Australia have come up with a method of "undoing" emissions by turning them back into coal.

RecyCoal: an All-In-One Solution For the Health, Environmental and Financial Burden of Solid Fuel Burning

A quarter of the world’s population uses coal or wood for cooking and heating inside their homes - with dire consequences for their health. RecyCoal has a solution.

Ecoalf: Transforming Fishing Nets, Coffee Grounds and Plastic Bottles Into Sustainable Fashion

A Spanish fashion company is using discarded plastic bottles, fishing nets, tyres and even coffee to produce a range of upmarket upcycled clothing.

The German Town Planning to Store Clean Energy in a Disused Coal Mine

What do coal mines and renewable energy have in common? More than you think, if you fill a disused coal mine with water to store energy from a renewable source - as one German mining town is planning to do.

This Idea Could End Europe’s Out-of-Control Resource Consumption

Europe’s current consumption pattern equals human rights violations, environmental destruction and fans the flames of the climate crisis. It’s time for a raw material reversal.

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Beneath the Surface: Unmasking Big Tech’s Quiet Empire in Africa – An Interview with Esther Mwema

Esther Mwema rethinks the hidden architecture of the internet, exposing how global tech systems often replicate colonial power structures.

“Data Centres Will Account for the Majority of Digitalisation’s CO2 Emissions”: An Interview With Ralph Hintemann (Borderstep Institute)

Data centre energy consumption is already high—thanks to AI, it’s set to skyrocket. We talked to Dr Ralph Hintemann about potential solutions.

“The Future Belongs to Open Source”: ZOOOM and the Future of Intellectual Property

Open source and intellectual property protection don't always get along. We spoke to the people behind ZOOOM to see what the future holds for these uncomfortable bedfellows in the backdrop of a big tech revolution.