How to Grow a Food Forest
I am writing today from my apartment in New York City, on a windy winter’s day. Not a leaf is green on our roof garden. There is no canopy. Only skyscrapers.
27/01/2023 New York Times
2023
Best News of 2023
Good things happen every month. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
January
February
The ‘bin-novative’ approach to rubbish that’s slashing beach litter
AI and some creative thinking have slashed litter by three quarters in one English seaside town. Here’s how
16/02/2023 Positive News
March
Can India's push for millets start a food revolution?
In its push to popularize production and consumption of millets, India is attempting a major change — not only within the country, but across the world. Will the push bring about a new era for the ancient grains?
01/03/2023 Deutsche Welle
April
Healing seagrass ‘scars’ to make Sydney Harbour cleaner and clearer
The world’s biggest harbour restoration project is focusing on an ancient, self-cloning species of seagrass.
24/04/2023 Sydney Morning Herald
May
There is more than one way to make green steel
Steelmakers around the world hope to decarbonise by changing the way they pluck oxygen from iron-oxide ores. This is done using either carbon monoxide (CO) derived indirectly from coke in a blast furnace, or by “direct reduction” with syngas, a…
31/05/2023 Economist
June
Kicking toxic people off social media reduces hate speech on the internet
Controlling hate speech on the internet poses one of the greatest challenges of our information age. Everyone says it’s important, but how effective is it? Some platforms have chosen to remove individual accounts who disseminate toxic content.
06/06/2023 El País
July
Canada's federal single-use plastics ban: What they got right and what they didn't
Canada is seen as leading the way in banning single-use plastics. But how comprehensive are these actions, and how realistic is the dream of a zero-waste future?
24/07/2023 The Conversation
Solar panel tech breakthrough generates electricity from rain
Researchers have come up with a new way to generate electricity with solar panel technology by harvesting the energy produced by raindrops.
21/07/2023 The Independent
Can High-Tech Buoys Ease California’s Water Crisis?
This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine. In May 2022, California officials unanimously rejected a plan to build a $1.4 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach. The plant, the officials said, would produce costly water and…
08/07/2023 The Atlantic
August
‘It helps with my stress’: US basic income project shows signs of success
La-Kingya Singleton almost didn’t answer the call. It was after 5 pm and from an 800- phone number. “I thought it was a robocall,” she said. But it wasn’t. It was someone from the In Her Hands initiative – the largest guaranteed-income pilot…
13/08/2023 The Guardian
He converted a van into a mobile medical clinic. Now, he's bringing care to thousands in rural Ghana
After losing loved ones to preventable diseases, Osei Boateng dedicated his life to delivering health care directly to people in need in his home country who often live hours away from the nearest hospital.
11/08/2023 CNN
September
Batteries for hire could help Nigerians ditch their generators
Reeddi rents out small, lightweight solar-powered batteries in Nigeria that can power devices including TVs, laptops and refrigerators.
26/09/2023 CNN
New treatment for migraine attacks on NHS to benefit thousands
A treatment for migraine attacks which dissolves under the tongue will soon be available on the NHS in what experts say is a "step change" in care. Health experts said 13,000 people could be eligible to take it to reduce sudden and severe head pain.
14/09/2023 BBC
October
Dengue rates plummeted in Colombia after lab-infected mosquito release
The world sees up to 100 million cases and 22,000 deaths due to dengue every year. Researchers may have found a way to cut those numbers significantly.
31/10/2023 Deutsche Welle
November
Abandoned oil rigs could scrape carbon from the sky and store it in empty undersea reservoirs
Keeping control of our planet’s thermostat is proving tricky these days. Temperatures are rising slowly, and inaction is proving costly as we awkwardly lurch towards a cleaner future. Some industries are proving stubbornly difficult to decarbonise,…
06/11/2023 The Conversation
December
Firm develops jet fuel made entirely from human poo
A new aviation company has developed a type of jet fuel made entirely from human sewage. Chemists at a lab in Gloucestershire have turned the waste into kerosene. Dr Sergio Lima, research director at Firefly Green Fuels, said: "What we are producing…
27/12/2023 BBC
Cows in Rotterdam harbor, seedlings on rafts in India; are floating farms the future?
Visitors walking along the river that flows through downtown Rotterdam might be surprised to see a three-tiered structure moored in the water, with a top level occupied by brown and white cows grazing on hay dropped from a conveyor belt
10/12/2023 The Independent
