by faster | Feb 21, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: Inverse DATE: February 21, 2021 SNIP: Researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, into a giant solar farm, capable of meeting four times the world’s current energy demand. Blueprints have been drawn up for...
by faster | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 26, 2020 SNIP: Palau’s much-touted marine sanctuary has backfired, with the fishing ban leading to an increased consumption of the reef fish in the western Pacific country – such as grouper, snapper and parrotfish – that the marine...
by faster | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Morningstar DATE: February 14, 2020 SNIP: Five years ago, Travis Kalanick was so confident that Uber Technologies Inc.’s rides would prompt people to leave their cars at home that he told a tech conference: “If every car in San Francisco was Ubered...
by faster | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Grist DATE: February 3, 2020 SNIP: If you’re getting more bang for your buck at the gas pump today than you were a decade ago, you can thank the Obama administration. Obama’s 2012 updates to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, or CAFE standards, made...