By 2019, there will be electric school buses Daimler, the parent company of luxury car brand BMW, has been going all in on electric vehicle (EV) technology. The latest addition to their growing electric fleet is an electric school bus, dubbed the Saf-T-Liner C2 Electric Bus, or Jouley for short. The bus has a range…
Program aims to inspire greener habits at Montreal’s daycares Three Off-Island childcare centres have signed on to a made-in-Montreal program that challenges daycare educators to systematically eliminate waste and implement environmentally-minded programs. The program, now in its third year, was adapted from a similar ENJEU program created in 2004 for CEGEPs and colleges. There are…
UPS wants to convert 1,500 delivery trucks in NYC to electric by 2020 Most of us only think about UPS trucks when we’re expecting a parcel or wondering whether it’s true that they never make left turns. As the company’s senior vice President Bob Stoffel explained to Big Think, it is, in fact, the company’s…
Over 500 children are educated in slums and underneath floyovers in South Delhi Naman Munot, a 24-year-old working professional, has successfully educated over 500 children in slums and underneath flyovers in South Delhi, to protect themselves from asthma, bronchitis or lung damage due to the degrading air quality by gifting them all free air pollution…
Engineers are making an ‘’electric highway’’ that stretches from Norway to Italy Now, two more companies, an international energy and e-mobility company E.ON and Denmark e-mobility provider CLEVER, are partnering to build yet another network of charging stations. Over the next three years, their network will provide 180 “ultra-fast” charging stations across 7 countries between…
Thoses floating homes are hurricane-proof Dutch architect Koen Olthuis and Miami-based livable yact company Arkup collaborated to build a 4,350-suqare-foot home that floats on the water. It’s completely off the grid, and is capable of withstanding a category 4 hurricane. According to Inhabitat, Olthuis — with his studio Waterstudio — collaborated with “avant-garde life on…
Bill Gates is giving $50 million to fight Alzheimer’s disease Bill Gates just invested $50 million of his own money to battle the Alzheimer’s disease in the Dementia Discovery Fund, which is working to come up with new treatments. “We need more approaches to stopping the disease, he writes in his post. That’s one of…
Residents move into crowfunded tiny house community for a pilot project Last July 21, fourteen residents moved into their new community. Denver’s crowdfunded tiny home project has run into more than a few road blocks, but those home are now disponible. Eleven 8-foot by 12-foot homes and a bathing house fill the Urban Land Conservancy-owned…
These greens bins will create manure out of your household waste Manufactued by Greenrich Grow India, a Chennai-based organisation, India, the green bin consist of fibre that composts organic waste generated in a household with the help of microbes. The waste is converted into dry manure that can be extracted after 80 days, while the…
These Boxes For Refugee Supplies Double As Kids’ Toys Refugees often receive aid shipped in cardboard boxes–which then might go to waste. One designer has created conceptual packaging that doubles a children’s toys. The project is called Inside the Box. Designer Lisanne Koning proposes printing colorful shapes and game boards onto cardboard boxes so that children can use…