Agriculture & Energy
Indian startup offers battery regeneration
An Indian company has begun offering a way to reduce the amount of lead acid and cadmium nickel batteries discarded.
Latest Agriculture and Energy Innovations
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Top Five
5 innovative ideas for harnessing solar power
With the anticipation that solar panels may be part of a climate change solution, here are our top 5 innovations making solar power more exploitable.
Fashion & Beauty
Tech Explained: Sustainable textiles
Innovators are turning to a variety of technologies in order to make textiles more sustainable, these include using recycled materials, plant-based fibres and bioengineered products.
Agriculture & Energy
Not-for-profit design studio warms benches using compost
The company hopes the project will raise awareness of the large amount of waste generated by modern living.
Agriculture & Energy
DNA breakthrough helps crops resist drought
A naturally occurring gene creates plants that can survive better in tougher environmental conditions.
Agriculture & Energy
Lightweight, flexible solar panel designed for indoor use
The mix of materials used in the panel absorbs a variety of wavelengths of light, turning ambient lighting into a power source.
Agriculture & Energy
A photovoltaic storage system for portable solar power
A plug and play photovoltaic system that can be self-installed and store solar power almost anywhere.
Agriculture & Energy
Bees to be used for fungicide delivery
A Canadian company has just been granted approval by the EPA to use bees to treat crops with fungicide.
Food & Drink
Food waste app connects sellers with consumers
Too Good to Go says it has saved 20 million meals from the trash since its launch.
Agriculture & Energy
New York grange expands roof-top concept
Brooklyn Grange’s three roof-top farms grow more than 36 tonnes of organic produce a year.
Science & Environment
Researchers turn cactus juice into biodegradable plastic
The material is more environmentally friendly than other biodegradables and disintegrates in water and soil.
Agriculture & Energy
Autonomous eco-farming robot makes agriculture smarter
The AI-powered machine uses satellite geo-location data to save resources, making farming more sustainable.
Food & Drink
Food-tech company creates protein powder from CO2
Solar Foods company produces a protein powder that is not only sustainable but also carbon negative.
Science & Environment
London will reuse excess heat from the underground to warm homes
The project will provide a cheaper, greener alternative for 450 houses this winter.
Science & Environment
Fish cannon uses AI to help native species migrate
The Whooshh Passage Portal system uses a pneumatic tube and AI-powered sorting to help native fish species over dams.
Science & Environment
Australian startup creates the first dumpling made from lab-grown kangaroo meat
Vow is taking lab-grown meat a step further by focusing on meat from exotic animals.
Work & Lifestyle
A toilet that diverts urine for fertiliser
The design allows for the separation of urine, which is rich in nutrients and when treated can be used as fertiliser.
Agriculture & Energy
Floating dairy farm promotes sustainable food cycle
The cows who live on the vessel are milked by robots and are fed with local vegetation.
Work & Lifestyle
Counter-top garden rotates to accelerate crop growth
The Rotofarm uses rotation and automated lighting to help plants grow in a soil-less kitchen garden.
Agriculture & Energy
Fuel plant to produce hydrogen from plastic waste
A new process will allow the production of hydrogen and electricity from unsorted, unwashed waste plastic.
Science & Environment
An energy-efficient cooling system based on ancient technology
The development of radiative cooling systems could eventually have a major impact on global energy consumption.
Agriculture & Energy
Agtech platform predicts agricultural performance
FluroSat uses real-time analytics to provide farmers with recommendations on how to optimise crops.
Tech Explained
Tech Explained: Meat without animals
New companies are having success in creating plant-based and cell-based products that taste and look like meat.
Science & Environment
Hydrophilic disc desalinates water with solar power
A team from Monash University is hoping their process can provide clean water to locations in need.