Fermented food ingredients like miso not only increase the appeal of plant-foods, which are much less carbon-intensive than animal-based dishes, they can also help us reduce waste by reusing low-value ingredients and creating entirely new sources of nutrition.
Agricultural waste to eco-friendly sanitary napkins, all thanks to one passionate woman.
If you thought a 4 day workweek was quite cool because it could make you healthy, here’s a news analysis that thinks it could be healthy for the planet too
Buildings are responsible for about 40% of global energy consumption and about 33% of CO2 emissions. That’s a stunning percentage. But what’s even more stunning is, we know little or nothing about emissions data for about 99% of the buildings worldwide, according to a World Economic Forum report. There could not be a bigger clarion call for stakeholders relevant to […]
CO2 has no colour, but the world uses a term blue carbon. What is blue carbon? Blue carbon refers to the CO2 sequestered by the marine ecosystem, especially by coastal ecosystems comprising mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows. Why is blue carbon important in the context of climate action? Estimates show that blue carbon ecosystems can store twice the […]
Most of the talk around greenhouse gases is about CO2 and methane (CH4). Did you know that using too much fertilizers can emit a different greenhouse gas? How? In addition to CO2 & CH4, another important greenhouse gas is Nitrous Oxide (N2O) – yes, what we call the laughing gas. Fertilizers contain nitrogen, and overapplication of fertilizers can lead to […]
With the fast growth of Internet and cloud services, the need for more and larger data centers is also increasing globally. Data centers already consume significant amounts of electricity, and thus are responsible for significant amounts of CO2 emissions. Globally, about 600 million tons of CO2 emissions are contributed from data center operations alone, about 2% of total CO2 emissions. […]
The world wastes a lot of food. Make that a real lot – about 1 billion tons of food is wasted every year globally. Digest that for a moment. Can such a large amount of food waste be turned into something valuable? How about converting food waste into food – for animals? This is precisely what many innovative startups around […]
Today, climate change has become such a buzzword that people in all walks of life are using it. Most everyone who talks about has some vague idea that climate change is something quite worrisome, but only a few know what exactly it means. So, what indeed does Climate Change really mean? Before we talk about climate change, let us get the basics […]
As it turns out – lots of things. In fact, many of the causes for climate change are natural, and this is why our climate has been changing ever since the earth came into being some 4.5 billion years back, long, long before the remotest signs of human beings emerged! So, we humans had nothing to do with the climate change of the […]
