SURVIVING SUPER HEAT
Sony’s Reon Pocket 2 is a wearable cooling or warming device worn inside clothing using electrical conductors that transfer heat[…]
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Month: August 2021
WASTEFUL BOTTLED WATER
Photo: Brian Yurasits One of my pet peeves is bottled water. Its environmental impact can be 3,500 times greater than[…]
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WIND POWERED SHIPS
A Swedish company is developing a 200 metre long wind powered cargo ship. It will have an engine as a[…]
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ALARMING AMAZON NEWS
Photo: Kunal Shinde Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged to its highest annual level in a decade over the past[…]
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PROMISING PREFABS
With modular (prefab) homes built in factories according to specific measurements, there’s no need for excess material, which reduces building[…]
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ENBRIDGE PERSECUTING THOSE PROTESTING LINE 3 PIPELINE
ENBRIDGE PERSECUTING PROTESTORSThe Canadian-based oil company reimburses police for violent crackdowns on unarmed water protectors. They’ve billed over $1.7 million[…]
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WONDERFUL WIND CATCHERS
Wind catchers are an ancient Persian technology still in existence. Often rectangular towers, they may appear in other ornate shapes[…]
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HOTTEST JULY EVER
ThIs July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth with records going back to 1880. The combined land and[…]
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CREATIVE COOLING AND HEATING
Work is being done on radiative cooling and solar heating systems. SkyCool Systems, with a co-founder from Stanford University, has[…]
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IPCC IMPLORES IMMEDIATE ACTION
The IPCC has been criticized in the past for downplaying the real costs of climate change, and its contribution to[…]
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