
Environment


Majority of plastic recyclables in Halifax being turned into synthetic lumber
Setting a new standard in sustainability, Goodwood Plastic Products of Stewiacke, N.S is taking plastics such as shopping bags, food containers and peanut butter jars and manufacturing them into synthetic lumber, wharf timbers, guardrail posts and agricultural...
☀️ The first WIP ambassador: “Warp is needed now more than ever”
There is probably no person more suitable to become Warp Institute’s first WIP Ambassador than Rune Westergard. He is from Korsholm outside of Vaasa in Finland, is the engineer who founded a technology consulting company that exists today all over the world. He...
🌞 Almost 75% of all new energy is renewable
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has recently compiled figures from 2019. Seventy-two percent of all energy expansion during the year came from renewable sources.While hydropower is still the largest renewable energy source in the world (47 percent),...
🏔 India is seeing greatly improved air quality and visibility of Himalayan mountaintops thanks to plummeting air pollution
In late March, India imposed a nationwide lockdown in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus. The nation of 1.3 billion people saw the world’s largest shutdown of factories, markets, shops, and most public transportation and construction work. As of 2019,...