Human-caused greenhouse gases are causing the Earth to heat up quickly. What can humanity do to stop this? One controversial suggestion is to simply stop heat from reaching Earth. One of the more controversial suggestions is that we should stop some...
Henrik Fisker, a legendary car designer, is responsible for many of the most stunning vehicles ever made including the BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9, and Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Although his Karma design is outstanding, Fisker was not involved in the...
When the world gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP26 UN climate convention, the conversation had not yet added “war in Europe” to the dual challenges of sustainability and biodiversity. Now, eight months later, in the Ukrainian port of Odesa, European...
The four-year-old investigation by a historian for Continental, a German automobile manufacturer, revealed that the company was active in supporting the Nazi party during and after the Second World War. Elmar Degenhart, the current CEO of the multinational, described the role...
Stuart Rowley, Ford Europe’s president, is leading a “park the Car” campaign. He believes the world would be better if more people walked or cycled instead of driving. Rowley admitted that was “probably not the first thing many people would expect...
“You could be forgiven for believing that cars are already self-driving,” Laura Laker, a U.K journalist, said. Laker was one of the authors of new guidelines that will be distributed to journalists writing about road traffic accidents. She has collected many...
A remarkable finding was published by Japanese scientists in March 2016. They discovered bacteria that could decompose plastic, which they were able to do by scooping up sludge outside an Osaka bottle recycling facility. The bacteria Ideonella Sakaiensis, could only eat...
Electric vehicle haters will often worry that the electricity grid cannot handle all the cars going electric. They haven’t done the math correctly. As long as there is proper demand management, grids in most developed countries will work just fine. Here’s...
Vladimir Putin’s invasion in Ukraine and the rise in food insecurity around the globe are reasons to strengthen, and not weaken, international agreements to end reliance upon fossil fuels, according to the U.K’s COP26 president. Alok Sharma spoke in Glasgow six...
Fashion’s environmental impacts are often calculated (and communicated) through Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). LCAs assess the impact of goods or services, typically from cradle (raw materials) to gate (when they are shipped to consumers); And they are commonly used to determine...
