Rooftop Urban Farms

Rooftop Urban Farms

Altius Urban Farms are showcasing the future of agriculture. Above a restaurant in Denver, they have a rooftop greenhouse using aeroponic towers to maximise their efficiency. The environmental advantages of this system are: 365 days a year – Altius’s...

A Change Angel

Alex Knoll was only 9 years old when he saw a man in a wheelchair struggling to open a door. He wondered if there was an app that could help the man find stores in the area which had automatic doors. He did some research, couldn’t see an app like that and began to...
Nature Can Save the Earth!

Nature Can Save the Earth!

The best technology on Planet Earth is Nature. It has to be…. or how could humans have survived for thousands of years? And mushrooms are not only ecological wizardry, they can be beautiful too – as shown by Aaron Tipton in his image of one seen from...
Keep Your Cool

Keep Your Cool

Nature and ancient wisdom have the solutions to reduce rising temperatures in cities around the world. Amid record temperatures hitting Spain each summer, Madrid is planning a new urban park that will lower city temperatures by 4 degrees Celsius. An urban forest will...
The Waste Queen

The Waste Queen

Professor Veena Sahajwalla is a recycling superstar with big and bold ideas on how to save waste from landfill. Living in Mumbai as a child, Veena could see that everything had a value and potential. This ‘waste nothing’ mindset shaped her engineering...
Finland leads the way again!

Finland leads the way again!

This industrial container is not exciting to look at, but it could have a massive impact in the race for a carbon neutral world. Polar Night Energy has invented a heat storage battery containing a hundred tons of sand. And the company is now producing...