Cities & Planning

Useful tool to show how much space is taken in our cities by cars. Load an image and easily mark type of space for any city.

Beautifully designed, energy-generating bio-panels that suck up carbon dioxide and pump out biomass for use as fuel or fertilizer – that's the idea behind Mexican startup Greenfluidics and its nanotech-enhanced microalgae bioreactor building panels.

Posted on Thursday 14 Jul 2022. 1,157 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

Welcome back to Found, the TechCrunch podcast that brings you the stories behind the startups. This week’s guest, Bowery Farming founder and CEO Irving Fain wants you to taste the best strawberry you’ve ever had, grown only a few miles from your urban home. As the leading and largest vertical…

This week, Austalia began a climate pivot on its relationship with the region. Fossil fuels are out and exporting green energy and green manufacturing techniques are in.

Musing about Atlanta's future, Joel Cowan is motoring in an electric golf cart around Peachtree City, the suburban planned community he created 40 years ago.

With its sturdy frame, top speed of 20 miles per hour, and a battery with a range of up to 45 miles, Rad Power Bikes’ flagship e-bike makes for a great commuter or a great companion for outdoor adventure.

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Someone is going to ask you. They probably already have. A co-worker, a boss, a politician, a kid… they’ll ask you about sustainability, the climate, investments, choices to be made abo…

Solarpunk, eco-anarchist ideals, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism,’ and a resource-based economy.

The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone that stood 12 miles from the nearest paved road in California’s Mojave National Preserve. The booth was originally constructed in 1948 to accommodate loc…

Cargo Sous Terrain has partnered with Swiss logistics companies and retailers, who see this solution as a complement to existing road and rail infrastructure. The entire project will run on renewable energy, and CST expects the amount of heavy trucks on roads to be reduced by up to 40 percent.

Cork has long been key to the wine industry, but Amorim is pushing this highly versatile material in surprising directions.

Whole-home energy monitors can help you save on electrical bills—but you may find that there are simpler alternatives.

Posted on Wednesday 6 Jul 2022. 1,114 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

It’s part of a larger effort to make the food system more resilient to climate change — and more delicious.

Tunisian startup Kumulus developed a device that mimics the natural condensation process to convert humid air into safe drinking water.

By purchasing certain foods, we make decisions about the carbon footprint from the production of those foods. Most of us don’t have a good idea of how much difference our choices can make tho…

Does a 100% supply of renewable energy make computing guilt-free? The answer depends on if you are being powered-by or matched-by renewables and is always "no".

In one year we could turn Melbourne’s small streets and laneways green and transform the city. Here’s how.

Arcimoto and ElectraMeccanica are making light EVs that they hope to sell to ghost kitchens, grocery delivery services and diners.

Online retailer opening ‘micromobility’ hub in Hackney as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions

This disquieting, real-world visualization demonstrates how much more seriously we need to take climate change—now.

Sakhalin is a long, skinny island east of Russia’s mainland. Winters can get very cold and snowy there. Not many people outside of Russia know much about Sakhalin. Apparently it used to be home to a Tsarist penal colony and Anton Chekov once described it as “hell” but Tatyana Kim swears it’s a beautiful place