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Wrongly charged? Defusing the electric car myths
Electric cars are widely seen as a wonderful idea for the future, but too expensive and impractical for now. It’s time to bust some of the m...
Written in partnership with Ecotricity
Bricking it: turning human waste into clean fuel
A social enterprise is transforming human waste into a clean, affordable fuel in Kenya. It smells like the future, discovers Oliver Balch...
Energy Environment Innovation Science Social Enterprise Society Sustainable Development
The young engineer with a plan to rebuild Gaza
Majd Mashharawi has invented environmentally friendly, cheap and lightweight blocks that use ash instead of sand. Could ‘Green Cake’ help re...
Innovation Society
Three good things: harnessing human energy for good
From motion-powered mobile phone chargers to urine-powered electricity; three ways in which human energy is pushing society forward...
Innovation Science Technology
Clothes designed to ‘grow with your child’ win Dyson award
The designer behind a range of clothes that expand to fit growing babies and toddlers has been awarded the James Dyson award for student inn...
Innovation Science Technology
Plans for China’s first ‘city of trees’ take root
With such limited space, how can cities be designed to feature more greenery? China is thinking outside the box: vertically...
Environment Innovation
