Innovation
Algae – the future of construction?
The unorthodox building material can absorb carbon dioxide and help insulate the structure underneath...
Environment Innovation
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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
