Courtesy of The University of British Columbia University of British Columbia researchers have invented a safe, efficient technology to wirelessly charge electric vehicles using “remote magnetic gears” – and successfully tested it on campus service vehicles. “Wireless charging has been a much sought-after technical solution for everything from cell phones to electric cars,” says UBC [...]

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Biologist, author and entrepreneur, Janine Benyus discusses the emerging concept of biomimicry – the application of the elegant systems and adaptations of the natural world to solve problems in our built world. Entrepreneurs and innovators are shifting from learning about nature to learning from nature for answers to today’s pressing challenges. In her book, Biomimicry [...]

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Students Shaping America’s Next Spacecraft (SSANS) was designed to inspire a new generation of rocket scientists, while streamlining production and reducing development costs of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). “The SSANS project will challenge students to creatively design hardware and select materials that most efficiently meet functionality requirements, while significantly lowering cost and reducing [...]

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it’s just a law of nature. In nature, balance is everything. All systems, regardless of scale, exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium. Molecules react, neurons fire and planets turn all in an effort to achieve balance. Ecosystems, in all their variation, diversity and interdependency, operate in [...]

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Green Job Search Advice: How to Maximize Your Opportunities Renewable Energy World – Paul Grana Getting a job in the clean energy industry (or, in my experience, the solar industry) isn’t necessarily easy. Most technology-heavy firms tend to have one or two business people for every dozen engineers. So in the interest of helping out [...]

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A Turbine Inspired by a Big-Mouth Shark Renewable Energy World – Russell Ray Anthony Reale got the idea one night while watching a nature show on the basking shark, a type of whale shark that uses its gaping mouth to feed on plankton. The product-design student from Detroit’s College for Creative Studies began to draw. [...]

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Press release from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business – Amy Spooner The WaterWheel literally lifts a huge burden from the shoulders of women and girls. – Cynthia Koenig Most of us don’t think twice about turning on a faucet and seeing potable water pour out. But for an estimated one billion people [...]

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6 Lessons the Climate Movement Can Learn from Dr. King’s Legacy It’s Getting Hot in Here – Ethan Nuss Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Smoke and Mirrors Inside Higher Ed Over the past few years, as the [...]

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101 Ways to Conserve Water in College OnlineClasses.org A lot of businesses, households and campuses have recently adopted water conservation plans to save money and protect the environment, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Those of us in the developed world use inordinate amounts of water for personal use, and [...]

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