Environment
🤩 Forget the PET bottle – time to make room for the plant-based material PEF
In the future, oil-based plastics can be replaced by plant-based materials. Why then continue to produce globally three hundred million tonnes of plastic every year? That’s 300,000,000 tonnes…A Dutch company named Avantium is currently developing a new packaging...
⚡ Renewable energy surpasses coal in U.S. power generation every day in the month of April 2020
This impressive stretch actually began on March 25, when utility-scale solar, wind and hydropower collectively produced more than coal-fired generation, and has continued for at least 40 straight days through May 3, according to preliminary figures from the EIA’s...
🦑 AI maps the coral reef
One of the effects of climate change is that the high temperatures are likely to kill the coral reefs of the ocean. These ecosystems are extremely important for sea and land life. They also contribute to protection and create food and jobs for almost a billion people,...
🏭 Sweden Shuts Down Its Last Coal Plant Two Years Early
“With Sweden going coal-free in the same week as Austria, the downward trajectory of coal in Europe is clear,” Europe Beyond Coal campaign director Kathrin Gutmann told PV Magazine. “Against the backdrop of the serious health challenges we are...
