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Rethinking business

15 September 2017

  • Escondido battery

    California’s big battery experiment: a turning point for energy storage?

    The world’s largest lithium-ion battery installed after a gas blowout has become a test case for the grid storage industry

14 September 2017

  • Climeworks, the world’s first direct air capture plant

    The entrepreneurs turning carbon dioxide into fuels

    The race is on to prove that CO2 can be taken from the air and recycled into profitable, carbon neutral fuels. But cost and investment obstacles remain

1 September 2017

  • David Pike and Karin Sode

    Meet the UK energy company that will give profits back to customers

    People’s Energy seeks ‘fairer, simpler’ way to supply energy while undermining dominance of big six suppliers

29 August 2017

  • The 'watermelon handle'

    Plastic-wrapped bananas and the 'kiwi spoon': your packaging peeves

  • A Lush cosmetics store in London

    Tattooed avocados and shampoo bars: the businesses curbing plastics waste

17 August 2017

  • Rooftop solar at Marcus Garvey Village, Brooklyn, NYC

    Brooklyn's social housing microgrid rewrites relationships with utility companies

    Microgrids, promising energy self-reliance for communities, are growing in popularity as they become more affordable

10 August 2017

  • New electric vehicles parked in a parking lot under a viaduct in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province

    The rise of electric cars could leave us with a big battery waste problem

    Carmakers, recyclers and tech startups are working to solve the question of how to deal with lithium-ion batteries when they wear out

30 July 2017

  • Bananas in plastic wrap

    Plastic packaging peeves: share your photos with us

  • Lily Cole in T-shirt made from recycled plastic

    'Ditch plastic straws' – experts and campaigners on how to cut plastic waste

15 May 2017

  • A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside Ikea in Brooklyn, New York

    Ikea’s solution to peak stuff? Invest in plastics recycling plant

    Furniture giant commits to reducing use of virgin raw materials but experts raise concerns about supply chain domination

9 May 2017

  • A woman wears a mask while walking through a neighbourhood next to a coal fired power plant in Shanxi, China

    Are companies ready to rethink the way they do business? – open thread

    As we kick off a series looking at how business can embrace sustainability, particularly renewables and the circular economy, tell us what you think we should be covering

8 May 2017

  • Altaeros prototype

    Higher, cheaper, sleeker: wind turbines of the future – in pictures

    The cost of energy from offshore wind in Britain has fallen by a third since 2012, and wind accounts for over 40% of new capacity in the US, representing an annual investment of $13bn. Now next-generation wind technologies promise to make wind energy safer and more affordable – if they can make the difficult jump from research prototypes to commercial products

4 May 2017

  • hybrid perovskite solar cells

    Spray on and printable: what's next for the solar panel market?

    Thin film technology is touted as a gamechanger for the solar panel market, but it’s not without drawbacks
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