Stripe San Francisco Bay Area employees can kiss their traffic woes goodbye as Navier rolls out a sleek new way to skip daunting commutes with its hydrofoil water taxi service. The tech company is partnering with Navier for a commuter pilot program to slash travel times and carbon footprints […] Click here to view original […]

Style Why Is It So Hard to Make a Sustainable Sneaker? From carbon-neutral wool to freaky fruit leathers and emission-eating outsoles, it feels like every footwear brand is fighting to build the world’s most sustainable shoes. Are any of their solutions actually better? By Oliver Franklin-Wallis January 17, 2024 […] Click here to view original

The Challenges of Constructing Eco-Friendly Communities Why aren’t more builders making simple changes, like a house’s orientation, that can cut energy demand by 30%? Walk through Arvada’s Geos community and you’ll see townhouses and single-family homes lining the streets. Neighbors walk by with dogs or bags of groceries and […] Click here to view original

Italian civil engineering giant Webuild has unveiled a state-of-the-art, automated factory that sets new benchmarks for advanced manufacturing. The group, which is constructing the hydroelectric pumped-storage scheme Snowy 2.0, Australia’s biggest renewable energy project, designed and built the innovative facility in Belpasso, a town near Catania in Sicily. It […] Click here to view original

Mass timber lab at Oregon State is helping to shape the future of eco-friendly construction 196K subscribers <__slot-el _="@=2582,x=198,y=632,w=95,h=36,fwe=400,ffa="Roboto; Arial; sans-serif",fsi=10px"> <__slot-el _="@=2625,fwe=400,ffa="Roboto; Arial; sans-serif",fsi=10px"> The mass timber lab at OSU is helping designers and engineers test new products that will help fight climate change. With such an important […] Click here to view original

"This has really annoyed me." One homeowner was seething when they said they faced a choice between downgrading an eco-friendly feature of their home or paying their HOA extra to keep it. “Our condo is in need of new roofs. There will have to be a special assessment to […] Click here to view original