A Shweeb for Singapore?

Perhaps Singapore would consider adopting it as well! Is the Shweeb Ready for Prime Time? The Shweeb is derived from the German “Schweben”, meaning to float or suspend. A logical name for a device invented by a New Zealander living in Tokyo. Commenters had issues when we wrote about it last year, But somebody likes [...]

Green technologies on show at Bex Asia in Singapore

NINE innovation technologies from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) will be on display at Bex Asia 2010, held at Marina Bay Sands, from Monday to Wednesday. One of the innovations include an eco-friendly halogen and toxic gas-free flame retardant, which is also a fire-proof additive, that prevents the spread of fire by [...]

Climate change threatens livelihood, nutrition losses for Asia Pacific fishermen

BANGKOK – Climate change could lead to livelihood loss, increased poverty and malnutrition, and conflict over fish stocks in the Asia Pacific region’s fisheries and aquaculture sector, which employ at least 32 million people, the United Nations said on Friday. According to the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the Asia Pacific region is the [...]

Indonesia’s last glacier will melt within years

First of all, we didn’t know there were glaciers in Indonesia (albeit in the Papuan Highlands), of all places. Now we hear of them dying. Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle the affect of global warming on the last remaining glacier in [...]

Cotton: the world’s dirtiest crop

This is a video made by a *Scape new media ambassador contestant, Foo Wen Xin. Wen Xin’s philosophy: “I believe that when it comes to caring for people and environment, we all share the same responsibility regardless of our status differences in the society. You may not be as rich as some people, but you [...]

Nathan Lewis’ “Powering the Planet”

“Powering the Planet” By Nathan S Lewis, Caltech Argyos Professor and professor of Chemistry “The currency of the world is not the dollar, it’s the joule ….   Energy is The Single most important technological challenge facing humanity today. Nothing else in science or technology comes close in comparison. If we don’t invent the nano-widget, if [...]

Greenlots roll out electric vehicle charging platform for the global market

Singapore clean technology company Zeco Systems is taking its electric vehicle (EV) platform global, under its infrastructure arm, Greenlots. Consisting of Greenlots Point, Greenlots Solar, and Greenlots Sky, Greenlots is offering a complete solutions package which can already easily tap into the existing infrastructure of global cities. These solutions include the on-grid, as well as solar charging [...]