What Venezuela’s Earthquakes Teach Us About Resilience And Recovery Versus Reconstruction

Venezuela’s recovery from dual earthquakes is about more than a construction project. It is about building community and a future.

The robot that sweeps the car park is also watching it. Viabot’s $24m round calls that soft security.
The robot that sweeps the car park is also watching it. Viabot’s $24m round calls that soft security.

Viabot has raised a $24m Series A led by Walden International, bringing total funding to $43m for its autonomous outdoor sweeping robot. The same machine runs what the company calls soft security, using its navigation sensors to detect loitering and tr…

Want To Buy A Tesla Cybercab? The Economics Should Scare You

Tesla will control all aspects of operation and control all flow of money, so they have little motive to pay owners more than “barely enough” — if even that. See the Math

EveryCarbon wins FLAIR subcontract to scale fossil-independent materials production

EveryCarbon, a high-performance shielding materials company developing engineered polyester systems for demanding industrial and construction environments, today announced it has been awarded a subcon…

Future Climate: Lettuce Will Need Solar Panel Shade

A recent experimental study simulated lettuce production under future climates (2025, 2050), revealing agrivoltaics’ significant resilience.

Protecting Soils Can Save Farmers From The Ravages Of The ‘Super El Niño’

Discover how soil aeration and live microbes could help British farmers protect pasture from drought and flooding as extreme weather intensifies.

How A Peace Corp Volunteer Built Beyond Good Into A Chocolate And Vanilla Business That Empowers The People Of Madagascar

Tim McCollum founded Beyond Good after his time in the Peace Corp gave him a desire to alleviate the country’s issues through delicious chocolate

3D Printing Waste Got You Down? Science: Make Into Protein, Eat It.

Scientists are now exploring a novel solution to 3D printing waste: converting this waste into human-edible food. Preliminary results look promising.

Why Canada’s Investment Summit Is Actually A Climatetech Summit

Carney’s investment summit dealbook lists 167 projects. Only 12 are fossil fuels. The rest quietly build a decarbonized Canada that no longer routes through the U.S.

Indoor Farming Gets A Hand From Open Hardware Development

A new open-source device has been developed to cost-effectively monitor LED lighting in controlled environmental agriculture.