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Researchers have found that concrete can be made 30% stronger by replacing a percentage of sand with spent coffee grounds, an organic waste product produced in huge amounts that usually ends up in landfill. The method also reduces the use of natural re… Continue reading Waste coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger
AWS, Cisco, Apple and others are deploying a variety of tactics to achieve lower carbon footprints, with everything from lower-energy coding to AI applied to power sources. Continue reading Tech Takes Diverse Approaches to Sustainability Including Net Zero Carbon by 2030
Plastic is one of the most useful materials in our modern world, but unfortunately it’s also one of the worst in a sustainability sense. Now, scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed a way to engineer bacteria to produce raw materials that can be made… Continue reading Bacteria recruited to build endlessly recyclable plastic
Conventional breeding of trees takes time, but CRISPR gene editing should help speed things up. Now, scientists at North Carolina State University have used CRISPR to adjust the genomes of poplar trees to make them easier to turn into paper products.Co… Continue reading CRISPR tweaks tree genetics to make paper more suastainably
Find out how leading tech companies handle the life cycle of plastics today and how recycling benefits both budgets and the Earth.
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Learn about Dell’s perspective on the future of saving energy, recycling servers and monitoring carbon footprints.
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Finding low-cost, sustainable building materials is important for the environment and providing access to affordable housing. Researchers have created a composite building material by replacing sand in concrete and mortar with a common, non-degradable … Continue reading Discarded diapers lay the foundation for future homes – quite literally
Modern technology is riddled with innovations that were initially inspired by the natural world. Velcro, bullet trains, airplanes, solar panels, and many other technologies took inspiration from nature to become …read more Continue reading Transistors That Grow On Trees
The world bought a staggering 2.321 billion tires in 2022 across all categories – a number that’s expected to keep growing. What’s more, in the passenger car segment, the overall trends are toward bigger cars and electrification, both of which add to w… Continue reading Michelin vows to clean up its act
Deloitte’s new semiconductor industry outlook suggests 2023 could be when more of the large players take actions beyond the basic carbon offsets.
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