Mobility News
Circular economy: car tires made from plastic waste
Interesting approach from the tire industry: The industry is now increasingly using old PET bottles as a raw material for car interiors, seat covers, side panels, etc. But now plastic waste, more precisely recycled PET bottles, is also finding its way into car tires. The German manufacturer Continental wants to […]
Bicycle is the hidden champion, says TUEV study
Alternative drives, automated driving or the consequences of the pandemic – the mobility of German citizens is changing. How has Corona changed mobility behavior? Which measures for better environmental and climate protection and sustainability in the transport sector do the respondents support? What is the actual uptake of electric vehicles […]
To achieve climate and energy targets, increased measures are needed to switch to clean energies. It is true that the global energy crisis has not caused emissions to rise as feared. But energy producers continue to blow CO2 into the atmosphere at a high level. The International Energy Agency (IEA) […]
Good Green News – or I guess you could call it the LED effect: Thanks to the use of LED lights and other energy-saving measures for traffic lights, traffic signs and street lighting, the electricity consumption of public lighting in Hamburg has fallen significantly. Since 2000, consumption has fallen by […]
What actually happens to human waste that does not immediately end up in the sewage system? The quantities produced at events, for example, are easily forgotten, but something has to be done with it. Klos to Nature wants to offer sustainable options for this area and find solutions for how […]
Since last year, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, together with the Heinz Sielmann Foundation, has been awarding a prize for particularly environmentally and climate-friendly film productions. Because yes, there is also a lot going on in the media industry to conserve resources and reduce CO2 emissions. Yesterday, the […]
The expansion of solar energy in NRW has again reached the record level of 2010 and 2011, according to Renewable Energies 2022. In total, systems with a capacity of 913 megawatts were installed last year, the State Association of Renewable Energies (LEE) reported this morning in Düsseldorf. According to the […]
As the world increasingly shifts from fossil fuel power to emissions-free electrification, recycling batteries is considered a key strategy in the fight against climate change. In the new Net Zero show, Net Zero Speaks With Gibson Kawago, Climate Activist Chibeze Ezekiel interviews Kawago, the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of […]
Disused agricultural land recovers only slowly without active renaturation measures, and not completely even after decades. This was the finding of an international team, including researchers from the Center for Biodiversity Research (iDiV), the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig. The team compared […]
Ecosia, the “search engine that plants trees.” Founded in 2009, the company is already the talk of the town. Founder Christian Kroll talks about why trees are being used to combat the climate crisis, what Ecosia is also doing for the climate, and the competition with Google in the Greentech. […]
Greentech Update in a nutshell: A German-Indonesian partnership has developed a solar-powered ice maker for small-scale fishermen in Indonesia. The high-tech solution is called “Solar Ice Maker” and was developed as a rural development project to prevent food waste and enable small fishermen in disadvantaged regions to sell their products […]
The Proservation founding team has made “packaging with reason” its motto. To achieve this, they use natural materials for their new packaging material, which is based on grain husks. Packaging materials such as Styrofoam represent a major environmental burden Packaging materials such as Styropor are anything but environmentally friendly. The […]