With sustainable practices thankfully taking over a myriad of everyday aspects of life, we’ve whipped up a handy guide to help you practice essential sustainable interior design with tried & true wisdom from Décor Aid interior designers to elevate your home with beautiful, eco-friendly design.
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The Porsche Taycan has set a new Guinness World Record, with a cross-country drive seeing the EV go from coast to coast in the US with under 2.5 hours of charging stops along the way. It’s a sign of how far public electric vehicle infrastructure has come on in recent years, though also a reminder that there’s more to EV ownership than simply where you can plug in. The route itself was straightforward: from Los Angeles, CA all the way to New York City, NY on November 12, 2021. In total, the Taycan drove 2,834.5 miles, Porsche says, with driver Wayne Gerdes pausing at 18 different charging locations for a cumulative total of 2 hours, 26 minutes, and 48 seconds. That’s an average of around 157 miles per charging session. The previous record stood at 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second.
Scientists from Hiroshima University and AIST in Japan engineered the bacterium Moorella thermoacetica to produce a volatile chemical from gaseous substrates at high temperature. It will realize economical thermophilic syngas fermentation process to produce bulk chemical from organic matters and wastes.
Acetone, a volatile solvent used for everything from removing nail polish and cleaning textiles to manufacturing plastics, could get a sustainability boost from a new strain of bacteria engineered by a research team based in Japan.
Conversations with dozens of sustainability leaders from around the world for Environment + Energy Leader produced numerous insights this year. Here’s some of the best sustainability advice they shared.
Uniqlo Sustainability – The UNIQLO Sustainability program makes use of clothing that is no longer of use to its owners. The pieces are collected at GU and Uniqlo store loc…
Whether it relates to coffee grounds or new clothing patterns, zero waste design can optimize economic efficiency in surprising ways.
FarEye CEO Kushal Nahata shared his thoughts on how enterprises can control carbon emissions in the supply chain operations delivery ecosystem in a post titled ‘Sustainability – Impact Across The Supply Chain And Modes’. He outlined how big brands are setting aggressive green goals to meet carbon-neutral targets set by the state. Today, the topic of sustainability has gained higher prominence with Simon Kafe, the foreign minister of island nation Tuvalu, giving a speech to the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) by standing knee-deep in island waters to emphasize the impact of climate change. The COP26 conference, which attracted delegates from 200 countries, has the plan to accelerate efforts towards a sustainable future, and that includes decarbonization of road transport; achieving zero-emission vehicles by 2040.