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Tourism has potential to play a major role in global pandemic recovery

A meeting of tourism specialists has laid out policy recommendations that could help the tourism sector play a major role in the global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic A meeting of tourism specialists has laid out policy recommendations that could help the tourism sector play a major role in the global recovery from the COVID-19…

Making personal care products and cosmetics ‘greener’ with biobased surfactants

Companies are finding biobased alternatives to traditional surfactants in personal care products and switching to renewable source materials for existing products Consumers increasingly want to buy “greener,” more eco-friendly beauty and personal care products. In response, chemical companies and manufacturers are pledging to reduce their carbon footprints. According to a cover story in Chemical & Engineering…

Robot jumps a record-breaking 100 feet in the air

The device can launch three times higher than the current record for a robotic leap Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have designed a one-foot device that can leap more than 100 feet in the air—three times the current record for a jumping robot, according to a video. The paper, which was published in…

5 ways turning city streets into art fuels innovation

Across the United States and around the world, cities are turning gray streetscapes, dark underpasses, and drab public plazas into giant canvasses for artists—and entire communities—to enliven with paint. This article is from Bloomberg Cities, which is run by Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation program. Sign up for their free weekly newsletter here. The results of these projects…

C40 launches urban design competition in 12 cities to transform underutilised sites into low carbon urban projects

For creative multidisciplinary teams to compete to design and develop climate-friendly urban projects that will serve the needs of local communities Reinventing Cities is a C40 Cities initiative that addresses the urgent need for change in the way that cities are designed and built in response to the climate emergency. Twelve world-leading cities will participate in…

Global Agenda on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation

With the purpose of achieving a deeper understanding of the geopolitical consequences of the ongoing energy transitions and a large-scale shift to renewable energy The world will need to manage more seismic shifts in the global energy system, including a quadrupling of renewable power capacity by 2030, to forge a pathway toward the 1.5°C goal,…

Circular City: How The City Of Malmö Is Trying To Find Circular Solutions For Circular Economy

The films are specifically released for the upcoming ICLEI World Congress 2021 - 2022, which will be held as a hybrid summit on 11-13 May under the theme of "Sustainability. Together" World Architecture Community has teamed up with the ICLEI World Congress 2021 - 2022, hosted by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö,…

European Health Union: A European Health Data Space for people and science

The EHDS will help the EU to achieve a quantum leap forward in the way healthcare is provided to people across Europe The European Commission launched the European Health Data Space (EHDS), one of the central building blocks of a strong European Health Union. The EHDS will help the EU to achieve a quantum leap…

China sets world record in long-distance quantum states transmission

New record in long-distance quantum states transmission between two ground stations over 1,200 kilometers via a quantum scientific experiment satellite Chinese scientists made record-breaking progress in realizing quantum states transmission between two ground stations over 1,200 kilometers apart via a quantum scientific experiment satellite, signalling a giant step towards constructing a global quantum information processing…

Want to see real change in the world? These seven books will inspire you

Social innovators, and disrupters of systems in the service of others, offer unique insights to making the world a more just, sustainable, and equitable place How do we make the world a better place? It’s not resources, solutions, or technologies that we lack, it’s resourcefulness. We need to work out how we organize ourselves as…