United Mine Workers of America, the United State’s largest coal union, announced that it supports a renewable energy future, so long as it means “good-paying jobs” for its members.  The…

Used Nissan Leaf batteries are now being re-purposed to build new Nissan Leafs, and other electric vehicles (EVs). As part of Nissan’s efforts to collect and re-purpose used battery packs,…

Company Ola Electric has begun construction on an electric scooter megafactory capable of producing 2 million scooters per year. So what? While other EV manufacturing plants, like Volkswagen Group’s Zwickau…

LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace.  The feature, which has been in development since 2019, will focus on knowledge workers able to work remotely and is hoping to span 100…

A gigascale green hydrogen plant to produce fossil fuel free steel will be built in the Boden-Luleå region of Northern Sweden.  Part of an integrated hydrogen and steel production facility,…

A new concept, Me.Ring, allows the wearer to flip a switch to instantly block data from being collected about them.  The idea, from design firm Argodesign, is to allow wearers…

Native Americans are buying back land and rebuilding territories.  After hundreds of years of relegation to ‘reservations’, tribes across the US are increasingly buying back lands lost during colonization.  Beginning…

Through reduced costs, resource use, and carbon footprints, a report from Accenture and Dassault Systèmes suggests that Virtual Twins could unlock $1.3 trillion in economic value and save 7.5 Gt…

President Biden announced that the US government will convert its entire fleet of vehicles to electric vehicles. The announcement came without a time frame, but with the current US vehicle…

According to a report by Ember and Agora Energiewende, 38% of Europe’s energy in 2020 came from renewable sources. Fossil-fuel generation accounted for 37% and the remaining quarter came from…

The owner of the UK’s largest public electric vehicle charging network, Ubitricity, is soon to be owned by Royal Dutch Shell. Expected to complete sometime in 2021, the sale will…

As part of the European Digital Strategy, the European Commission has proposed two pieces legislation to make a ‘safer and more open digital space’. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and…

Sustainable , environmentally oriented, or ‘green’ bonds have been rising in popularity for decades, but the EU’s recent updating of the Green Bond Standard (GBS) could open markets for an…

On January 6th 2021, Facebook and Twitter disabled US president Donald Trump’s accounts. Citing risk for further incitement of violence, Twitter permanently suspended the president’s account, while Facebook has disabled…

Robinhood Markets, a digital US investment brokerage, stands accused by Massachusetts regulators of gamifying investing. Massachusetts regulators allege that the company has been aggressively recruiting novice investors, and has been…

Adapting to Climate Change Impact on Water Resources in the Andes (AICCA), a collaborative initiative between Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, seeks to improve the interdependence between agriculture and natural…

A member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in New Mexico, Deb Haaland could become the first Native American Interior Secretary. As Interior Secretary, Ms. Haaland would oversee management of…

Ceres’ Valuing Water Finance Taskforce and the World Bank’s 2030 Water Resource Group, among others, are acting together to address water as a systemic risk to business, people, and biodiversity….

COVID-19 has illuminated the life or death importance hygiene and sanitation around the world. While people have been dying due to lack of hygiene and sanitation since the beginning of…

A wildfire spanning more than 1 million acres across seven counties in California caused the state to use a the new classification ‘gigafire’. The fire was an amalgamation of several…

Seeking to demonstrate Iron as a circular fuel source, Dutch students applied their theory to a brewery in the Netherlands. The researchers combusted finely ground iron powder by adding oxygen,…

Pairing its expertise and capacity in internet searching, maps and navigation, and AI, google has launched the Tree Canopy Lab to help plant trees. The tool combines AI and aerial…

In lieu of this Novembers’ postponed COP 26 in Glasgow, activists from around the world staged a virtual mock COP to call for greater climate action. On Thursday 1 December…

In an extraordinary cooperative endeavour, scientists from all corners of the globe have mapped the distributions of all 22,000 known species of bees. Created to aid in the conservation of…

After acquiring online pharmacy Pillpack in 2018, Amazon has officially entered the digital pharmacy market in 2020. Offering Prime members significant discounts and purportedly offering generic prescribed brand-name drugs, the…

This year on ‘Black Friday’, when many companies discount products, the American shoe company Allbirds will increase product prices by 1 US dollar. The company will donate the extra dollar…

Google is set to launch 3-6 month courses for career certificates. The courses will require approximately 5 hrs a week to complete and cost around $600. They require no previous…

In the US, Education-applied AI is set to grow by nearly fifty percent by 2021 according the the Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education sector. While the technology is…

The United States Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of maintaining unlawful search and search advertising monopolies. Beginning a potentially multi-year process, the suit…

Swedish brand, Felix, has opened a grocery store in Stockholm, Sweden, where customers pay in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) and the prices are adjusted for climate impact. By using climate…

The world’s largest solar and wind power generator, NextEra, is now more valuable on the stock market than ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil lossed more than half of its market value in the…

A new prototype cell-phone design from Vivo, includes a removable camera. The device is designed to offer a fitting for interchangeable cameras which can be swapped or removed altogether. So…

Following announcements from Tesla, Ford, Rivian, and others, GMC joins the full size electric pickup truck race in the US with its Hummer EV. Slated for a 2022 launch, the…

Pollination group and HSBC have announced an investment fund focussed on putting a value on natural resources.  The fund will invest in regenerative agriculture, sustainable forestry, water management, blue carbon…

After nearly a century of listing on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Exxon Mobil was removed from the index. There is now only one oil company listed on the index…