Electric Avenue
Inside The Tesla Model S
It’s here. The new Tesla--much more affordable than the electric vehicle startup’s first offering--made its debut today. Here’s a report from the test drive.
Idealism Sells
Written by: Grant Tudor
A company that believes in something--and makes all its decisions in service of that idea--is a business that will succeed.
China leads the way on cleaner coal even as it burns more
Clean coal--long dismissed costly and technically impractical-- may also be a stopgap measure in a world where we keep building coal power plants.
Safecast’s New Geiger Counter Lets Anyone Collect And Share Data On Radiation
The monitoring organization just raised more than $100,000 for a reverse-engineered Geiger counter that has the potential to deliver the world’s most transparent radiation data.
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Change Generation
How A Young Physicist Is Making Solar Power Work, Even When The Sun Is Down
Danielle Fong might have dropped out of grade school, but that hasn’t stopped her and her company LightSail from finding a way to potentially drastically change how much power we can get from renewable energy.
If You Count Happiness, Costa Rica Is The Richest Country On Earth
The Happy Planet Index does away with GDP in favor of a formula that includes happiness and personal well-being. It upends what you think of as successful countries.
Melinda Gates On The Importance Of The Girl Effect
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Prashant Panjiar
The Gates Foundation makes it a point to fund solutions for women and girls because those solutions are often the most effective.
