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Digitalisation presents a mixed bag of opportunities, challenges to Indian IT sector

Digitalisation presents a mixed bag of opportunities, challenges to Indian IT sector

Talent shortage, cybersecurity vulnerabilities are key concerns

Business not as usual

Business not as usual

The B Team is an international group of business leaders leveraging their influence for the common good. It is also a partner of Sparknews, who recen

Big data, small energy bills

Big data, small energy bills

Using algorithms and analytics (as well as smart glasses), a French startup identifies potential energy savings for industries from cheese manufacture

Qarnot Computing, recycle to heat for free

Isn't it good, Norwegian wood

The Oslo-based company Kebony uses patented technology to give softwood the attributes of tropical hardwoods, saving the rainforest one plank at a tim

From protester tearing down the boundaries, to successful entrepreneur today

The nuclear power phase-out, the energy transition and the fight against climate change have resulted in the emergence of new business models in Germa

PILI, the "organic" ink pioneer

A French biotech company is developing fully biodegradable ink, using pigments made from bacteria. Is this the next revolution for our ballpoint pens?

School for flower children

A ‘farming’ kindergarten sprouts among Vietnamese factories

Echy lets the sun back into workspaces

Vitirover, robot, and winegrower

A small company from Saint-Emilion, France, is sending its solar mower robot into the vineyards. Before entrusting it with other tasks.

How to get energy from sewage waste

Soil-Concept is developing a procedure to transform sewage sludge compost into gas

Kervellerin recycles oyster shells

From pits to plastic

A Mexican entrepreneur hopes to make bioplastics even cheaper than their petroleum-based equivalent, thanks to an abundance of avocados

Apateq: Containers on tour

The Luxemburg company Cleantech specialises in the separation of water and fossil fuel.

Divide and Prosper

Russia's slow yet sure progress towards segregated Waste collection and recycling

A seawater desalination project led by Fundación Chile Easter Island seeks to irrigate crops using solar energy

Due to the summer drought, Islanders have to get 52% of their fruits and vegetables from the mainland because local production cannot meet domestic de

In Africa, dirt bricks for cleaner construction

Across the world, people are chopping down trees to burn bricks to build their homes. The world’s largest cement manufacturer thinks there’s a be

Paint it green

Peintures Robin introduces the first "100% biosourced paint"

AllGreenup: the app that measures environmental impact and rewards environmental care

The platform connects users and companies within a sustainable context, promoting environmental care.

When money grows on trees

Once viewed as worthless, the humble croton nut of East Africa has proven to be a valuable source of biofuel, fertilizer and even chicken feed

Electricity usage ‘Shazam’ seeks capital for foreign conquest

Weight and See

Two British designers discover a way to turn dirt into light

Storing solar juice in brine

Aquion Energy, a Pittsburgh-based startup, has developed a clean and relatively inexpensive sodium-ion battery for holding the sun’s power

Micro-grids, macro impact

Mera Gao Power lights up 20,000 households across 1,500 Uttar Pradesh villages

Plugging into farm waste for power

In Bihar’s hinterland, Husk Power Systems generates electricity from biomass

Developing Hydrogen Power in a Hydrocarbon Empire

Methods for turning hydrogen into energy have been known for over a century, but they are only now starting to reach the consumer markets. In addition

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Rain, the response to water scarcity

Fez lights up, thanks to its household waste

The CIC... a step in the fight against climate change

Nopal is being used to provide electricity for the market

Small and medium-sized enterprises Promoting productivity in Latin America

Effenco’s solutions to make trucks less polluting

Building a climate friendly city

Rwanda's capital, Kigali, is turning to architects for sustainable urbanisation

Biothermica cuts GHG emissions at landfills and coal mines

In Kenya, a new solar system

M-KOPA is bringing light to people’s lives with an innovative model combining renewable energy, GSM technology and mobile money

Næstved seeks to become an international recycling hub

Næstved has launched Ressource City – where one company’s waste is another company’s raw materials. A Swedish and a German company have joined