Innovation

Ingenious solutions for replicating glacial meltwater are under way in Ladakh — involving Tibetan Buddhist monks… Text: Michael Buckley || Research: Allan Fotheringham  || Photos: Mikael Lorin + STSSC March 2015: High...

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Protecting Indonesia's peatlands – which form some of the densest carbon stocks in the world – is crucial to meeting global climate goals. After years of neglect, some of the...

Electric cars don’t have the reputation they probably deserve. This land has been touting renewables for over a decade, yet many of us still rely on gasoline to get around....

The pace of human enterprise is not constant. Change is so fast that policy makers and governments are way behind the curve. Climate change is only one example. The result...

Finally, off-grid Kenyans can catch up on Game of Thrones! Azuri Technologies, the UK-based provider of the PayGo Solar home systems that are revolutionizing Africa’s energy economy, has partnered with...

The Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network (WFEN) and the Wildlife Conservation Society-Argentina (WCS) are pleased to announce traceable Certified Wildlife Friendly wool—part of the “Patagonian Fibers with a Conscience” program—from the...

When you construct your street-side stormwater-harvesting basins, described in my last post, Harvesting Stormwater with Backwater or Eddy Basins, you'll of course want them to be as successful as possible; to...

Would you buy and eat extra restaurant food if you could snag it at a steep discount? Your answer probably depends on what "extra" means. In this case, we're talking...

As children across the nation don their costumes and prepare for a night of tricks and treats, the rest of us are grumbling that it’s only Monday. November is practically...

Where would we be without concrete? Two-thousand years after the Romans conquered the Western World, their monuments are still caressed by the sun. Ageless, they have withstood the rise and...

Earlier this year, while visiting the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya, I saw some of the worst erosion I’ve yet witnessed, while also experiencing a variety of growing oases. The three oases...