FutureSharp

01/04/2020

25/01/2020

While some scientists try to engineer processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, seagrasses and mangroves do it for free.

25/01/2020

Stretchable and colorless freestanding microwire arrays for transparent solar cells with flexibility.

24/11/2019

... The understanding that the common root cause of the multiple crises we are facing is in fact a crisis of perception offers us hope that we will be able to respond before it is too late. It suggests that if we were to employ a different way of thinking to the one that got us into this mess in the first place, we might realize how many interconnected problems can be combined in ways that point us towards a series of interconnected opportunities and systemic win-win-win solutions by addressing root-causes rather than symptoms.

Taking a systems view of life is an important step towards addressing the crisis of perception. Realizing our intimate kinship and communion with the process of life as a whole will trigger a shift in consciousness that will enable us to radically improve the quality of our lives and the health of the ecosystems and planet we inhabit. It will change the ways we relate to each other and the rest of the natural world and allow for the emergence of health as a systemic property linking human and planetary health. ...

After initially training as a zoologist and marine biologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California (Santa Cruz)…

29/10/2019

Inspired by Charles Massy's best-selling book "Call of the Reed Warbler", filmmaker Amy Browne set out across the dry farming country of South East NSW to me...

29/10/2019

Conventional wisdom says we need industrial agriculture to feed the world. Not so, says geologist David Montgomery: Practices that focus on creating healthy soil can transform agriculture.

28/10/2019

Anything needs the burning of fossil fuels, the continuation of ‘economic growth’ and biodiversity destruction TO STOP RIGHT NOW

05/10/2019

Bioneers sat down with Paul Hawken to learn more about his work with Project Drawdown and his plan for helping build a more connected world.

30/08/2019

Those best equipped to deal with the future are those who will inherit it

An 18-year-old Irish wunderkind has won the 2019 Google Science Fair grand prize for creating a method to remove microplastics from the ocean.