Leonardo DiCaprio’s Vacation on Board $150 Million Vava II Superyacht Is Eco Hypocrisy
9 Jan 2022, 08:07 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Oscar winner is a passionate environmentalist, but he is also fond of vacations on board superyachts and private jets. So what does that make him?
Automotive Ads Will Run With a Warning on Pollution: “Think About Carpooling”
31 Dec 2021, 10:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / New bill by the French government forces automakers to include warnings to ads in all media, urging customers to consider other transport alternatives
GM Gets Into Electric Boating, Buys Stake in Pure Watercraft
23 Nov 2021, 06:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / General Motors is all for the holistic approach to the EV revolution, so it’s joining forces with a Seattle-based electric boating company to make it happen
Financial Times Story About EVs Gets Debunked With the Same Sources
7 Oct 2021, 22:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Auke Hoekstra is famous for debunking articles that make EVs look dirtier than they really are and FT’s story on how green an EV is was no exception.
Morgenfarm Is the Visionary Project That Could Turn a Motorway Into a Vertical Farm
28 Sep 2021, 05:02 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / A new motorway extension in Berlin has sparked protests, and a local NGO has come up with a project that could turn it into a sustainable farm of the future.
India Puts the Kibosh on Old, Unfit Cars, Finally Launches the Vehicle Scrappage Policy
13 Aug 2021, 14:26 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / India launches the long-awaited National Automobile Scrappage Policy, in an effort to get rid of old, unfit, polluting cars.
Over Half of the Urban Emissions in the World Are Produced by Just 25 Cities
13 Jul 2021, 07:56 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Just 25 large cities in the world are responsible for more than 50 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions on the globe, research shows.
Jellyfishbot Is a Small Robot With a Big Apettite for Trash
8 Jul 2021, 08:34 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / French startup IADYS came up with a sollution for the litter in our waterways. Hard to reach areas can be cleaned with the use of a little-trash eating robot.
Razer and ClearBot Redesign Autonomous Robot to Clean Up Marine Plastic Waste
8 Jun 2021, 13:36 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / To celebrate World Oceans Day, gaming brand Razer announced that it teamed up with startup ClearBot to reduce ocean pollution
Woman Wants Freeway Speed Limits Lowered After Buying a House Right Next to It
16 Apr 2021, 07:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / “I’m not stupid” but “I do feel stupid,” says grandma after two months in what she thought was her “dream home,” where the noise and rattle are unbearable
Lawmakers Are Mulling Over Trading In Old Cars for New e-Bikes
15 Apr 2021, 14:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / France could become the first country to include e-bikes as real car variants, by offering a €2,500 subsidy upon trading in an old ICE car
Greta Thunberg Ad Mocks Mars Tourism: What About Climate Change?
18 Feb 2021, 07:18 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Fridays For Future releases mock-ad about space exploration and the colonization of Mars, points out that only one-percenters will actually be able to relocate
It's Valentine's Day So Love Is in the Air. Unfortunately, It's Not Alone
13 Feb 2021, 14:28 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / What else could be hanging around in the atmosphere on this fine celebratory day besides L O V E? Oh, how about some CO, NOx, PM25, or SO2?
Tengah Is Singapore’s First Smart, Pedestrian-Friendly City
3 Feb 2021, 14:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Five-district city built by the state will offer 42,000 new homes in a “forest town” that will also have the first completely car-free city center
President Joe Biden Wants to Replace Entire U.S. Federal Fleet With EVs
26 Jan 2021, 06:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It will be “the largest mobilization of public investment and procurement infrastructure and R&D since World War II,” POTUS says
World’s First Floating City, Blue Estate, Is Selling $1.5 Billion Mega-Mansions
19 Jan 2021, 14:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Live in the world’s greenest community, a private state with minimal regulations, on a floating luxury island in a mansion of your own design
The 8th Continent Floating Station Is Tomorrow’s Dream Dreamed Today
13 Jan 2021, 10:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Lenka Petráková envisions a floating station that cleans up the ocean, doubles as a research facility, is self-sustainable, and integrates into the environment
Bill Gates Makes Bid to Buy World’s Largest Private Jet Operator, Signature
11 Jan 2021, 09:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One month before his latest book on climate change comes out, Gates’ Cascade Investment Fund teams up with Blackstone to vie for takeover of Signature Aviation
The Rich Need to Stop Flying Private for the World to Reduce Carbon Emissions
2 Jan 2021, 06:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The UN's Emissions Gap Report 2020 shows the emissions gap is wider than ever, because regular folks were banned from flying for most of the year
GM and Ford Knew of the Impact Cars Had on Climate Change Back in the ‘60s
28 Oct 2020, 07:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / By the ‘70s, both companies had confirmed that ICE cars were contributing to climate change but would do nothing. Instead, they denied independent evidence