Environment

Birds and bees: why new buildings need to support the natural world

The Conversation: Nature can thrive in cities with the right opportunities, and some English councils are working to help develop homes for wildlife within new buildings. New planning laws in Brighton and Hove now require developers to install bricks for bees…

Solar’s Bright Future Faces A Cloudy Reality: What About All The Waste?

Forbes: With the pressures of climate change and the urgency to incorporate alternative energy resources like wind and solar, the fixation on the purported benefits of energy transition technologies…

Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger.

New York Times: Chuck McGinley, a chemical engineer, stepped out of his car, eyed the smokestack of an animal processing plant rising above the treetops, and inhaled deeply. At first he smelled nothing except the faint, sweet fragrance of the nearby trees….

Crypto cannot easily be painted green

Financial Times: Can crypto ever be green? Until recently, this was a question that mostly concerned idealists. The crypto kids who dashed into bitcoin a decade ago were so focused on fomenting an anti-establishment financial revolt that they did not usually worry too much about carbon emissions. The type of…