The world’s lightest folding bike is here. The Hummingbird Bike Company has put its ultra-light, carbon fiber bike into production following a successful 2015 Kickstarter campaign. The two-wheeler weighs only 15 pounds. According to the London startup, the bike features a unique folding mechanism where “the rear triangle pivots around the bottom bracket, so the […]
By Dan Nosowitz Sixty-eight percent of coffee drinkers in the U.S. use some kind of addition, either a creamer or a sweetener, or both. And if that addition is coming in the form of a single-serve plastic container, it’s likely ending up in a landfill. These pods—you’ve seen them at hotels, airplanes, restaurants, conventions—are convenient […]
By Jeremy Deaton Since the beginning, President Donald Trump promised that stripping regulations on oil companies would drive employment. “We’re bringing back jobs big league,” he said. But, after six months of regulatory rollback, Trump has done almost nothing that will create jobs on oil fields or offshore rigs. That’s because low oil prices, not […]
Many people might balk at the idea of living in a home that’s the size of a treehouse, but Tesla, Inc. just created a tiny house fit for its larger-than-life CEO, Elon Musk. The Tesla Tiny House is currently being towed on the back of a Model X around Australia to exhibit the company’s products […]
In the Netherlands, where there are 1.3 bikes per person, finding a parking space for a two-wheeler can be daunting. To amend the situation, the country is building a massive, three-story bike parking garage beneath Utrecht’s central train station. The first phase of the project will be able to hold 6,000 bikes, then another 6,500 […]
In Europe, electric vehicles are not just a low-emission way of getting from A to B, they are also being built as mobile generators. Newly designed Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) models can both receive electricity from the grid and supply excess power right back during peak demand. Notably, the Parker Project in Denmark—carried out by grid integration […]
Volkswagen is offering German drivers up to 10,000 euros ($11,810) off a new, cleaner VW if they trade in an older diesel car of any brand. The carmaker, which has taken a big hit to its public image ever since its emissions-cheating scandal, said in a statement it is “shouldering its share in the responsibility […]
By Rory Christian and Larissa Koehler Electric vehicles (EVs) don’t make much noise on the road, but they’re generating a lot of buzz about the future of this technology and what it means for business and the environment. Cars, buses and trucks are the second biggest source of pollution in the U.S. after electricity production. […]
By Janine Benyus It seems so obvious now: Innovators are turning to nature for inspiration in building, chemistry, agriculture, energy, health, transportation, computing–even the design of organizations and cities. Biomimicry is taught from kindergarten to university and practiced in all scales of enterprise. But it wasn’t always this way. When Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature […]
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