Benjamin Stern was only 16 years old when he secured an investment from billionaire Mark Cuban on Shark Tank for his sustainable beauty and personal care technology company Nohbo. Benjamin started his entrepreneurship journey all the way back in middle school, […]
With headlines filled with news of coronavirus outbreak, little attention has been paid to climate change and the need to save the planet. Last month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos warned that climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. […]
Gento (formerly Nursing Without Walls), a Los Angeles-based that provides on-demand staffing and care delivery management to home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities through their platform and mobile app, today announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding […]
It’s now global. According to NASA, the smoke from the Australia Fires has now traveled around the entire planet. In the video, which shows the global aerosol distribution from August 2019 until January 2020, one can see several high impact events across the […]
Solar panels are everywhere. Unless you are a solar panel installer, most people don’t really think about what it takes to mount solar panels on the rooftops. Solar racking system (also called photovoltaic mounting system), is used to safely fix solar […]
From time to time we scourge the internet to find some amazing but original inventions by ordinary people. Our search led us all the way to Frösön, the largest island in the lake Storsjön, located west of the city Östersund in […]
Would you like to turn your energy resources into revenue? Renewable energy startup Leap might be able to help you. Leap is a marketplace for universal distributed energy resources to participate in the energy market. Leap allows every connected device to help balance […]
SolarReserve is a venture-backed renewable energy startup, focuses on advanced solar thermal storage technology. The startup was founded in 2007 by Kevin Smith to solve two of the fundamental barriers of renewable energy: scalability and storage. Unlike hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, and other renewable […]
The smart home market continues to grow with no sign of slowing down. The global smart home market was valued at USD 55.65 billion in 2016 and is projected to reach USD 174.24 billion by 2025. Today, GE Lighting, a division […]
With more than 5.1 million electric cars on the roads globally, there is increasing need for infrastructure and charging stations to keep these cars moving. However, Volkswagen seems to have the solution. This week, Volkswagen unveiled a new visionary for a mobile […]
It’s estimated that about 100 million metric tons of plastic waste has already “leaked” into oceans. The amount increases by 5 million to 15 million tons annually, according to research cited by the International Energy Agency (IEA). We’ve written many stories about […]
Back in April 2018, we wrote about how a UK startup is using recycled plastic to build better, cheaper, and longer lasting roads. MacRebur is one of the world’s most innovative and sustainable startups you probably never heard of. MacRebur is using up […]
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is a trade association representing the $398 billion U.S. consumer technology industry and over 2,200 consumer technology companies. It’s mission to help innovators of all sizes grow their business. The organization is also the owner and producer of Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an […]
Bright Health, a diversified consumer-focused healthcare startup company, has closed $635 million Series D funding round to support its aggressive growth and hiring as the company continues to strategically expand across products, geographies and consumer bases. The company previously raised a […]
It is estimated that 150 million people are homeless worldwide. With tech headlines filled with advances, gadgetry, smart devices, and more, home continues to be the foundation every family needs to live beyond survival. Today, over 1.6 billion people around […]
InnoEnergy, Europe’s sustainable energy innovation engine, with the support of the EIT and the European Union, has today announced its €5.8 million investment into Northvolt’s “Revolt” program. The program, which will implement the latest discoveries in efficient materials recovery methods, […]
Tech may offer the best tools we have in the battle against climate change, given how much time we likely have left to make a fundamental change. There are technologies that need to be implemented on a large scale, like […]
Perfect Day, a food-tech startup is reinventing the way milk is produced industrially. They believe that factory farms, artificial insemination, and automated milking machines are not the way to go. They’re bad for cows, and they’re bad for the planet. […]
Rare earth metals are used to manufacture everything from electric or hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, consumer electronics and other clean energy technologies. The elements are also important to national governments because they are used in the defense industry. Twenty percent […]
Imagine if you could create the Hydrogen Economy out of waste greenhouse gas emissions. That’s exactly what ReCarbon, a Silicon Valley greentech startup, is doing. ReCarbon is turning greenhouse gases into hydrogen, and syngas. Yesterday, ReCarbon announced it has secured $7 million […]
