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  • Ecotourism offers new hopes for Bhutanese youth — and local environments

    Local communities in Bhutan are developing ecotourism sites to create jobs, generate income, and protect endangered species and ecosystems. They’ve created ecolodges and campsites, host traditional dining experiences with food from local farmers, and host nature-based activities, all while leading conservation efforts on the land they use.

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  • How a Technology Similar to Fracking Can Store Renewable Energy Underground Without Lithium Batteries

    Three startups in Houston are using a technique similar to fracking, a practice used in the oil and gas industry, to store renewable energy without batteries. They use excess renewable energy to pump pressurized water into manmade caverns underground. When energy is needed, they open the caverns, sending the water back to the surface to turn a turbine and generate power.

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  • 'Nuisance' Organic Waste Offers Farmers Better Fertilizer, And Feed Deal

    The social enterprise Marula Proteen Limited is providing farmers in Uganda with a cheaper source of livestock feed, allowing them to stay in business. The enterprise uses soldier fly larvae produced with food waste to create animal feed and crop fertilizers.

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  • 2 Oregon companies forge sustainable path for beer and wine

    A brewery and a winery in Oregon are setting the standards and building the infrastructure for a reusable glass bottles system to reduce their environmental impacts. They sell their products in bottles that customers are incentivized to return so they can be cleaned, refilled, and sold again.

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  • Lights on: Brick kiln workers in western UP begin the transition to solar energy

    Brick-making businesses in Uttar Pradesh, India, are switching from coal to solar panels to power their kilns. The swap allows them to meet more than their electricity needs, also supplying energy to their employees’ huts, while reducing emissions.

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  • A Firewood Lot is Helping This Timber Town Recover

    A locally-owned wood lot in Oakridge, Oregon, collects piles of debris from the surrounding forest that could become fuel for wildfires and turns it into firewood for the community. Alongside wildfire mitigation, the business reduces the air pollution residents create when their only option is to burn wet wood for heat.

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  • “This is where I belong now”: Niger tries a new refugee model as Nigerians flee bandit attacks

    “Opportunity Villages," a collaborative initiative between the Niger government and the UNHCR, help refugees from Nigeria become economically self-sufficient by living and working alongside their host communities, developing a more sustainable alternative to traditional refugee settlements. In the five years since their founding, these Villages have supported tens of thousands of refugees.

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  • Youth Business Spain: alianzas, mentoría y financiación para el emprendimiento juvenil

    Youth Business Spain, una ‘alianza multiactor’ de entidades sociales especializadas en promover el autoempleo, ha ayudado a 4.500 emprendedores en su primera década a poner en marcha su negocio.

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  • California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

    The California-based startup Magrathea Metals is producing magnesium with renewable energy to make the process less expensive and material-intensive. The company aims to make the more environment-friendly metal competitive with steel and aluminum.

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  • Geothermal system is a US first

    Eversource Energy, a utility company in Massachusetts, installed a networked geothermal system that provides heat for residential and commercial buildings across the city of Framingham. The connected system allows excess heat from one building to be redirected to another that needs it. It’s the first of its kind in the United States.

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