NOT SO FAST: France has ultra-fast fashion players such as Shein and Temu in its sights with new legislation. The country’s parliament unanimously passed a bill on Thursday that would ban advertising and impose fines on cheap imports into the country. It is the first step before the bill will ultimately be voted on in … Read more
People born in the future will inherit a planet in the midst of a global ecological crisis. Natural habitats are being decimated, the world is getting hotter, and scientists fear we are experiencing the sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history. Is it reasonable to bring a child into the world under such circumstances? My philosophical … Read more
Norway has become the first country in the world to give the green light to the controversial practice of deep-sea mining. A bill passed in the Norwegian parliament on Tuesday (Jan 9) will accelerate the undersea hunt for minerals needed to build green technology such as batteries for electric vehicles. It authorizes opening up parts … Read more
Oyster mushrooms are widely used in research into fungal-based living building materials. (Submitted by UBC Biogene Architecture Lab – image credit) A team of Vancouver academics is combining the fields of microbiology and architecture to create living building materials made from oyster mushrooms and other edible fungi. They say their research into ‘engineered living materials’ … Read more