At the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), leading researchers are being brought together to work on an ambitious project: to develop an integrated solar energy-to-fuel conversion system and move it from the bench-top discovery phase and bring it to the market for commercialization. It will require an amalgamation of experts from multiple disciplines to [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, energy, Environment, funding, government, growth, innovation, opportunity, sustainability, Technology
On March 20th, a 60-foot boat constructed of plastic soda bottles disembarked from the San Francisco bay area on an 11,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean. Aptly named Plastiki, the boat was the brainchild of banking heir and environmentalist, David de Rothschild. Four months later, on July 26th, the catarman finally docked at Sydney’s Darling [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, communication, efficiency, Environment, innovation, success
At Hebrew University (HU) in Israel, scientists have developed a new processing algorithm and database for utilizing GPS technology that can help application developers to create high-tech devices and tools to analyze and study the way people move about in their communities.
Already, Dr. Noam Shoval, head of the Geography Department at HU and his doctoral [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on August 4th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, innovation, Technology
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and proponent of the non-profit association, One Laptop Per Child, introduced a prototype of a laptop costing just $100 for students in the developing world. Believing the cost was still too steep, India sought to invent an even less expensive technology-based aid for its students.
The result [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on August 2nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: efficiency, innovation, Technology
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.
This new product, the LifeVillage, is aimed towards areas needing temporary shelters. The product is a series of prefabricated structures with light-gauge steel framing [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on July 30th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: charity, clean energy, Community, innovation
The simple act of detecting anemia plays a large part in the diagnosis for various other health problems such as malnutrition, malaria or HIV/AIDS. Yet, in impoverished parts of the world, where resources are lacking, patients have to wait for extended periods of time for expensive laboratory test results to come back from big cities. [...]
Filed under: Community, Healthcare, News on July 26th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: charity, Community, global, healthcare, innovation, research
It’s great to see how big companies such as General Electric are making waves by encouraging people to contribute towards the development of cleaner energy. Through projects such as the Ecomagination Challenge, the company sparks the minds of people who wish to contribute to this development. This year’s challenge will last until September 30, 2010. [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News on July 20th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, entrepreneur, innovation, sharing, start-up, strategies
Out of sheer luck, researchers may have found a pill that can possibly be a cure for Alzheimer’s or at least stop it from progressing.
This drug, according to researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern, stops brain cells from dying and boosts their numbers, thus sharpening memory. If given early enough, the drug could prevent [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 19th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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A recent report reveals that the Australian New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education’s Fiber Optic broadband project is ahead of schedule. Telstra Corporation Limited, which agreed to have the project finished by September, has already laid out 99 percent of the 4500km fiber optic network.
“There has been no delay with the project, which is [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology, education on July 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: government, growth, innovation, opportunity
One of the main problems with electric vehicles (EVs) is that they don’t go as far as gas vehicles do because you usually have to charge them at home. This may be the case today, but the problem will soon be a thing of the past as yet another company, Younicos AG from Berlin, has [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News, Technology on July 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, effective, energy, Environment, innovation, sustainability
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.