Category: Sustainability Innovations

  • Sweden to Build Permanent Electric Road for Charging EVs on the Go

    Sweden is set to be the first country in the world to have a permanent electrified road. This follows the successful pilot project of the world’s first temporary electric road.  Located in the middle of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmo, the European route E20 will be turned into a 500km permanent electrified road, allowing vehicles to…

  • Could this CO2-Eating Microbe revolutionize Carbon Capture?

    Scientists have discovered a microbe that eats CO2 at an astonishing rate. New research has shown that a microbe discovered in volcanic hot springs has a remarkable ability to consume carbon dioxide (CO2) quickly.  Scientists believe this discovery could lead to an efficient method of removing this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.  As the world…

  • Azimut’s Seadeck Series Sets a New Standard for Sustainable Yachting

    Azimut’s Seadeck Series will debut at Boot Düsseldorf in 2024 and is a milestone in responsible luxury. Luxury and sustainability are two concepts that were once seen as incompatible but are now going hand-in-hand, and Azimut’s Seadeck Series is proof of that. The bespoke superyacht builder has released a range of boats that are fitted…

  • Power-generating railway tracks are coming down the line

    This Swiss company is installing solar panels on railway tracks in a unique way.  Swiss start-up Sun-Ways is set to install solar panels on railway tracks, offering a world-first solution that could help accelerate Europe’s energy transition. The innovative technology is removable, making it possible to clear the tracks for maintenance work. While other developers…

  • WaterLight: a revolutionary lantern that converts salt water into electricity

    Their wireless lantern called WaterLight produces electrical energy from a renewable natural resource such as saltwater.  The demand for global energy is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades but billions of people still lack access to electricity. However, a Colombian renewable energy startup, E-Dina, may have presented a solution that can improve the…

  • Green Energy for All: Co-Own a Wind Turbine or Solar Park

    Want to go green with your energy consumption, but can’t afford the cost of solar panels? You can co-own a wind turbine or solar park. Want to go green with your energy consumption, but can’t afford the cost of solar panels? Don’t worry, there’s another way to get involved in the renewable energy revolution –…

  • Shark in the Water: The Robot Cleaning Up Plastic Pollution

    This innovative water-cleaning robot can collect up to 21,000 plastic bottles in just one day. Have you ever seen a shark in a river or canal? You might soon – but it won’t be a predator looking for prey. It’s WasteShark, an autonomous water-cleaning robot (inspired by the whale shark’s mouth) designed to scoop up…

  • The floating solar panels that track the Sun

    Floating solar is a new renewable energy option, and it has huge potential globally.  As countries around the world try to find space for large solar arrays, they are turning to floating systems. However, the Netherlands is now taking this one step further with water-based arrays that follow the sun. In a lake in the…

  • Pantelleria Island Gets Electricity from the Sea

    This device can produce up to 260kW of peak electricity from wave motion, providing clean energy to offshore infrastructure, remote islands, and coastal communities.  The world’s first Inertial Sea Wave Energy Converter (ISWEC) device has been successfully installed and connected to the electricity grid on Pantelleria Island, located about 800 meters off the coast. Developed…

  • This startup is reforesting Canada with seed-planting drones

    Using modified commercial drones, Flash Forest shoots “seed pods” onto fire-damaged land. In 2003, brothers Cameron and Bryce Jones watched as the Okanagan Mountain Park fire ravaged their home city of Kelowna, British Columbia. The fire destroyed large swaths of forest, leaving behind charred landscapes devoid of living trees. The destruction of their childhood playground…