Sustainable banking, green electricity, eco travel... but what about your mobile phone provider? We talked to Alma Spribille from WEtell about their plans to provide Germany's mobile phone market with a sustainable and ethical alternative.
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A fully electric - and soon to be self-driving - city bus will go into series production later this year. Who's behind it? Not Tesla or another car company giant, but instead a German university.
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While the concept of storing thermal energy in molten salt has been around for decades, a new approach - from one of Google's sister companies - combines hot energy with cold to create a temperature difference that can be utilised to generate power.
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The financial world isn't exactly renowned for its social conscience and environmental sustainability. For those who don't want their money to be in a bank that dabbles in food speculation and invests in the arms industry, there haven't been many options out there. But now there's a new player on the field.
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A Finnish startup has come up with a circular solution to cut down on the packaging waste associated with online shopping. We talked to Christine Braun from RePack about the challenges of the market.
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A university project called "Solar Spline" aims to kill (or at least help) three birds with one stone: provide shade, produce energy, and make urban spaces more liveable.
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Water scarcity is set to become a major issue in the near future. In Los Angeles, one piece of tech is allowing homeowners to help in their own small way.
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Two Swiss ecopreneurs are using digital tech to help food outlets track, viualise and analyse what they're throwing away - in a bid to reduce food waste and cut costs too.
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Internet connectivity is a rare commodity in many rural parts of Africa. BRCK, a Kenyan startup, makes specialised hardware routers that can supply Wi-Fi even without a steady power supply.
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Not only can drones fly, some can also swim. One drone, the WasteShark, which is currently on the move in the ports of Rotterdam and Dubai, even collects garbage.
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Germany has just rolled out the world's first two hydrogen-powered passenger trains, currently running on a 100km route in the north of the country.
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A road surface that generates electricity from sunlight, absorbs noise, breaks down nitrogen oxides, defrosts ice in winter, provides valuable data and supplies electric vehicles with electricity. Sound too good to be true? It's true, and it's here.
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Powered by electricity, completely recyclable and made from renewable materials - does this sound like a car to you? Absolutely. Say hello to "Noah".
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Loon, Google’s internet balloon project, gets a competitor: The Altaeros Supertower will provide fast, mobile broadband services in rural, hard-to-reach areas.
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In Nigeria, social enterprise WeCycle is taking recycling into their own hands - heading out on bicycles to pick up waste from those people who have been forgotten by the city's collection services.
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