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Image Source: Carbicrete website Canadian innovators in Montreal, Canada aim to substantially transform the environmental impact of the construction industry. Cement, one of the key ingredients [...]

Image Source: Pearl Homes Learn how smart design, solar energy, and Google Home join together to create a new zero emission neighborhood at Hunters Point in Florida that will also protect [...]

Image: Christine H. Ye MIT engineers have built and flows the world’s first plane with no moving parts. This could be the future of silent drones or even passenger air travel. Using [...]

Nominated as a finalist in the XPrize CO2 contest, a joint Canadian and Chinese research team (C4X) has developed a new carbon capture technology capable of producing plastics and other useful [...]

It’s been a busy few months since my last post, but after returning from Japan and spending some time back at Queen’s, I embarked on the second stage of my Hugh C. Morris Fellowship on September [...]

Time is flying and another leg of my journey is now complete. I think the past 4 weeks in the central-western US have been the busiest so far, packed full of meetings, conferences, tours, and [...]

Developed while working on her PhD at Cambridge University, Enass Abo-Hamed’s has invented a patent-pending “sponge” (a porous nanoparticle-based smart material) that produces, stores and [...]

McArthur River Mine and Northern Territory Geological Survey, Australia. In terms of zinc, lead, and silver metal endowment, the Proterozoic sedimentary basins of northern Australia rank number [...]

Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have joined together to create a line of running shoes and footwear made from ocean plastic. Learn More about the Shoes!    Learn More about Parley for the Oceans!

A socially and environmentally responsible start up in Indonesia, called EVOWARE, has created a new patented edible seaweed packaging product that not only eliminates plastic packaging waste but [...]