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Solutions & Innovations, Technology

Scrapp: Recycling app helps consumers to sort their waste right and earn rewards or pledge to planet-saving projects

Scrapp is an app that is enabling everyone to sort out their waste correctly – eliminating any confusion as to whether an item is recyclable or not – by simply scanning the barcode of the item and rewarding consumers with discounts on sustainable brands. Scrapp shows consumers the right way to sort their waste. With so many different types of packaging, and rules specific to each … Continue reading Scrapp: Recycling app helps consumers to sort their waste right and earn rewards or pledge to planet-saving projects

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Technology, Travel

Google’s new “eco-certified” badge search option for hotels helps travellers make green choices

Google has launched an “Eco-Certified” badge for hotels that now shows in its search results, that it has verified are making efforts to reduce their carbon footprint.  In order to qualify for the designation, hotels will have to be certified by independent organisations such as Green Key or EarthCheck. When you search for hotels on Google, you’ll now see information about the hotel’s sustainability efforts. Hotels … Continue reading Google’s new “eco-certified” badge search option for hotels helps travellers make green choices

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Motoring & Transport, Solutions & Innovations, Technology

Finding second life for electric car batteries

Electric cars will overtake their petrol-powered counterparts and companies in France are looking at ways to deal with the waste that electric car batteries generate and giving them a second life. Car manufacturer Nissan is looking to to prolong the batteries’ life by using them to store energy. A battery with 80% storage capacity may no longer be fit for use in a car, but will still … Continue reading Finding second life for electric car batteries

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Technology

Virtual reality forest, created by geographers, aims to help understand effects of climate change

A virtual reality forest, created by geographers, is aiming to help people connect with how forests may change as the climate warms. Researchers at Penn State University are experimenting with virtual reality to enable people to walk through a simulated forest of today and see what various futures may hold for the trees, in order to understand the effects of climate change. Alexander Klippel, professor … Continue reading Virtual reality forest, created by geographers, aims to help understand effects of climate change

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Design & Architecture, Technology

Forust: New process delivers sustainable 3D printed wood made from upcycled wood waste

A new 3D-printing process that utilises wood has launched offering designers a new way to produce sustainable wood pieces for home decor and interiors. Forust is a new process to sustainably produce functional end-use wood parts using patented single pass binder jetting additive manufacturing technology. The Forust process upcycles waste byproducts from wood manufacturing (cellulose dust) and the paper industry (lignin) and re-materialises functional wood … Continue reading Forust: New process delivers sustainable 3D printed wood made from upcycled wood waste

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Environment, Technology, Uncategorized

Smartphone app helps rice farmers in Vietnam to save their crops from high salt levels in water

A new smartphone app from is helping rice farmers in Vietnam save their crops from high salt levels in water. The app, launched by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government of Vietnam, measures salinity remotely and sends results to farmer’s mobile phones, providing farmers with an early warning detection system to tell them when salty water is getting into their fields … Continue reading Smartphone app helps rice farmers in Vietnam to save their crops from high salt levels in water

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Blossm: Plant swapping app connecting people to plants

Blossm, an app dedicated to plant swapping, is helping plant enthusiasts in the San Diego area to find plants, locally and further out, through swapping and buying.  The “plant-dedicated platform”, which is for everyone from budding enthusiasts to seasoned green-thumbs, encourages users to upload photos and descriptions of plants they want to swap, which are featured as thumbnail photos on the app’s home page. Though … Continue reading Blossm: Plant swapping app connecting people to plants

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Motoring & Transport, Technology

Google Maps to direct drivers to “eco-friendly” routes to help reduce carbon footprint

Google is to use its Maps app to direct drivers along more “eco-friendly” routes to reduce the carbon footprint of car journeys, and as part of its pledge to be carbon-free by 2030. The new AI-driven model will default to the most environmentally friendly journey based on fuel consumption, after analysing factors like road incline and traffic congestion. An eco-friendly route will automatically present itself … Continue reading Google Maps to direct drivers to “eco-friendly” routes to help reduce carbon footprint

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Technology, Travel

Virtual tour Christmas displays from around the world with the Christmas edition of Tab With A View browser extension

View Christmas displays from the comfort of your own home this year, with the browser extension Tab with A view: Christmas Edition which makes it easy to virtually visit places around the world with some spectacular holiday season displays. The extension, which is available to download for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users, allows users to upload and virtually browse Christmas displays. Users add the extension … Continue reading Virtual tour Christmas displays from around the world with the Christmas edition of Tab With A View browser extension

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Environment, Technology

SIKU: Inuit knowledge and technology work seamlessly together in app that helps Arctic communities document climate change

An app, created by and for Inuit communities, is enabling users in the Arctic to share information about dangerous conditions, wildlife sightings and hunting stories – documenting changes to the environment due to climate change. The mobile app and web platform, SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network, provides tools for weather, ice safety and hunting stories as well as knowledge transfer and language preservation. SIKU puts … Continue reading SIKU: Inuit knowledge and technology work seamlessly together in app that helps Arctic communities document climate change

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