Take action on e-waste for Earth Day
Just shy of 50 million tonnes of e-waste will be produced globally in this year. Earth Day is a global moment of civic and political action to protect our shared home.
Source: therestartproject.org
Just shy of 50 million tonnes of e-waste will be produced globally in this year. Earth Day is a global moment of civic and political action to protect our shared home.
Source: therestartproject.org
Conference organizers in Australia find many ways to reduce single-use plastics and other waste at their event…
Five Rice University engineering laboratories are part of a $33 million national effort to develop a wireless, fully implantable device that can control the body’s circadian clock, halving the time it takes to recover from jet lag and similar disruptions to the body’s sleep/wake cycles.
In this artistic illustration, a user with an NTRAIN implant and its accompanying external hub works in the field. The user inputs a desired time shift (due to shift work or travel across time zones). Based on cues from the body’s physiology, the external hub detects the user’s circadian rhythm and triggers the implant to produce precisely-dosed peptide therapies. (Image courtesy of Northwestern University)
Led by Northwestern University and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project will blend bioelectronics, synthetic biology and traditional electronics to create a “living pharmacy” that produces the same peptide molecules the body naturally makes to regulate…
Tackling the world’s single-use plastic problem…
While aviation has been credited with furthering connection across the globe by permitting the fast transportation of people and goods, it also has an environmental impact that could lead to trouble if overlooked. Globally, the aviation industry was responsible for only 2 percent of all human-induced CO2 emissions, releasing 915 million tons of CO2 during 2019. “Passenger air travel is producing the highest and fastest growth of individual emissions,”
It’s helpful to take a closer look at a few lies about an increasingly popular topic: the Bitcoin circular economy.
From a sustainability perspective, the global apparel industry changed quite markedly in 2019. This was the first year I can remember in which all parts of the industry—brands and their RMG suppliers—appeared to be singing from the same hymn sheet, all pulling in the same direction.