Syria opens its first solar powered hospital Solar energy is helping to save lives in Syria by providing a more reliable power supply A hospital in Syria can run for up to 24 hours on renewable power, thanks to the installation of 480 solar panels. Six years of civil war has destroyed many of the…
Nurses join forces with labor union to launch healthcare platform cooperative With support from the United Health Workers West — a 150,000-member strong union — nurses in California have launched the NursesCan Cooperative to create more opportunities to use their skills in the swiftly-changing healthcare industry. The motivation to create the cooperative wasn’t only to provide more…
Minivan library brings literary relief to refugees For tens of thousands of refugees stuck in Greece for the past two years after European states shut their borders in rapid succession, survival is no longer an issue. Instead, boredom and creeping despair about their future are their new enemies as they wait for months, even years,…
Volkswagen’s new electric minibus will hit the road in 2022 On August 19, Volkswagen announced at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California that its electric microbus, the I.D. BUZZ concept car, will go into production. The new microbus will debut in dealerships throughout China, Europe, and North America in 2022, after the compact four-door…
This salad-making machine will make you the perfect salad in 60 seconds The Sally robot wants to find a place in corporate offices next to the junk-food filled vending machine. If you want a salad from the market at the Calafia Cafe in Palo Alto, a restaurant, and market run by the ex-Google chef Charlie…
Bad news abounds these days. Violence. Hate. War. Terrorism. Environmental destruction. Political insanity. It all seems so…bad. And I don’t know about you, but when my social media feed is filled with the news it has been of late, each story more disturbing than the last, I start to lose hope. But what if things…