With the climate crisis rapidly worsening, many tech workers are recognizing they aren’t making any significant impact to better the world in their current roles, prompting them to leave the traditional tech sector to work for companies fighting the climate crisis.
Posts tagged with "global warming"
A$AP TYY – PRESIDENTIAL
Today, next-up Harlem rapper from the A$AP Mob collective, A$AP TyY releases latest single Presidential via AWAL.
IP PARIS PRESENTS A WORKSHOP
Institut Polytechnique de Paris will present a workshop “Tech the challenge for society”, which highlight the latest game-changing research projects conducted within its existing interdisciplinary centers and upcoming ones.
MAURICE LACROIX
Maurice Lacroix unveils the brightest, funkiest range of watches, offered in an array of eye-popping colours.
H&M Foundation Award
H&M Foundation awards 5 innovations a total €1 million grant for their efforts to make the fashion industry planet positive. A laundry solution that prolongs garments’ life, AI helping smallholder cotton farmers to increase yield and income, an invention realising the circular recycling of elastane and polyester blends, carbon-negative viscose made from CO2 emissions and […]
Six Tips for Businesses to Reduce Plastic Waste
You’re already in the habit of bringing reusable bags to the grocery store, upcycling glass jars, and maybe even tossing food scraps in a compost pile. Perhaps you’ve ditched single-use plastics, too. If you’ve taken sustainable strides in an effort to save the planet, you’re not alone. Millions of others just like you have joined […]
Innovating Wildfire Insurance
The Innovative Finance for National Forests grant program, supports partner organizations developing out of the box financial solutions to some of forest management’s most vexing challenges. One partner, The Nature Conservancy, focused on using insurance premium reductions to incentivize forest conservation. Property insurance premiums for communities, businesses, and homeowners are based on numerous factors and inputs of […]
HEAT WAVES × THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
By: Andrew Shibuya It seems as though only months or weeks pass nowadays between environmental global crises. While heat waves, floods, and the like are by no means novel, the twenty-first century has undoubtedly seen an unrelenting torrent of environmental disasters. In the past week alone, a record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest left nearly […]
THE PROBLEM WITH PRIME DAY
By: Andrew Shibuya It’s Prime Day–an almost dystopian new holiday of sorts, rivaling Black Friday itself and joining the ranks of those days that celebrate the contemporary culture of excessive consumerism. And perhaps almost as equally as dystopian as the day itself is the subsequent full throttle media push from news publications and influencers alike, listing […]
Cityzenith x Digital Twin Consortium
Cityzenith is bringing its city de-carbonization expertise to the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC). The DTC is a collaborative organization driving the Digital Twin industry forward through a membership drawn from innovators and companies across many sectors. Its latest invitee Cityzenith has created a software platform, SmartWorldOS™, able to create virtual replicas of buildings, cities and infrastructure to track, manage […]