Footprint

The latest sportswatch from Finland's Suunto, which made our selection of the best smartwatches of 2021, not only boasts the rugged adventure-ready build expected of the premium brand, but is also the first from the company to have its lifecycle carbon footprint offset.The Suunto 9 Peak Pro is hand-made in Finland using 100% renewable energy, a fact that contributes to its total lifespan carbon footprint being just 7.5 kg CO2e, which the company equates to about the same as a fossil-fueled car traveling for 44 km (27.3…

More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed, and stored for single-use purposes. Often, it is never re-used. This could be your multiple near-identical images held on Google Photos or iCloud, a business's outdated spreadsheets that will never be used again, or data from internet of things sensors that have no purpose.This "dark data" is anchored to the real world by the energy it requires. Even data that is stored and never used again takes up space on servers – typically huge banks of…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Marketing scientists devote much of their work to understanding people's decision-making and how to influence it. There's been less effort devoted to what…

NTPC Limited, India's largest integrated energy company achieved 69454 MW of group installed and commercial capacity with the commissioning of 56 MW Kawas Solar PV Project at NTPC Kawas, Gujarat on Monday. The Ministry of Power in a statement said that NTPC is steadily lowering its carbon footprint by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the installation of renewable energy projects in its existing stations as well as putting up green field RE projects.The company has planned 262 MW floating solar on over 1300 acres…

Humankind marks a dubious milestone Thursday, the day by which humanity has consumed all Earth can sustainably produce for this year, with NGOs warning the rest of 2022 will be lived in resource deficit.  The date – dubbed "Earth Overshoot Day" – marks a tipping point when people have used up "all that ecosystems can regenerate in one year", according to the Global Footprint Network and WWF."From January 1 to July 28, humanity has used as much from nature as the planet can renew in the entire year. That's why July 28 is…

“Individual action is crucially important. Recycling, flying less, voting for progressive candidates, and eating less meat… are all great. But to accelerate climate action we need to come together to create scalable models for broader systemic change. This is no secret,” Dr Lucy Tweed, who received her PhD from Columbia University for research into carbon removal and is starting a new role as an associate climate researcher at Cambridge University said following the launch of the Carbon Removal DAO on…

What is science worth? For many researchers, the answer is “priceless.” It's not just that science has provided the basis for modern life through sanitation and energy and electricity and telecommunications or that technology gives us useful things. It's that science deepens our understanding of the world around us in a way the transcends material benefits. Poet William Blake may not have been thinking about science when he described seeing “a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,” but he could have…

EVCS – a West Coast-based EV charging network – has raised $68.8 million in funding to help expand its presence to over thirty-five new cities in California, Oregon, and Washington. In addition to increasing fast charger density in its current footprint, EVCS looks to double its network size by 2023. EVCS was founded in 2018 and currently sits as one of the larger electric vehicle charging networks on the West Coast. Its fast chargers are powered by 100% renewable energy and offer a turn-key approach that utilizes…

Automotive e-commerce company Autochek has expanded to three new African countries after acquiring CoinAfrique, a classified ad marketplace, nearly two months after the Nigerian startup acquired Moroccan auto marketplace KIFAL Auto, marking its foray into North Africa. Autochek said it will tap CoinAfrique’s regional customer base in Francophone Africa to accelerate its car financing services. The classified ad marketplace is said to attract 60,000 new ads and 1.5 million visits every month,…

From drones, to electric rickshaws, to bi-directional autonomous transport pods, Amazon is exploring a number of avenues in its bid to reduce its sizable carbon footprint. Part of this means tackling emissions associated with last-mile deliveries in urban areas, and the e-commerce giant is now exploring a new solution to this problem in central London with the launch of a micromobility hub for e-cargo bikes and walking couriers.Amazon's new micromobility hub is the first such facility in the UK and is expected to handle…