The international association of Academics Stand Against Poverty has come out in favor of the growing movement of universities divesting from fossil fuel investments. The news comes on the heels of several big divestment announcements, including Syracuse University’s decision to prohibit direct investment in coal mining and other fossil fuel … [continued]
The global push towards fossil fuel divestment continues, especially on university campuses, with the University of Oxford set to rule on whether to divest from fossil fuel investments. With an endowment worth approximately £3.8 billion, the University of Oxford is the second richest university in the UK (after the University of … [continued]
The efforts to pressure Harvard University into divesting from fossil fuels continues to heat up, as Harvard Heat Week kicks off later this year in April, and some of Harvard’s big-name alumni pen an open letter to the University in support of divestment. The last we had heard of the … [continued]
The University of Sydney in Australia has announced its intention to “substantially reduce” its carbon-related investments over the next three years, a first for Australian universities. The news comes after a long line of international educational institutions have made similar (though somewhat more concrete) fossil-fuel divestment announcements — the most recent … [continued]
Harvard scientists have invented a new way to make rubbing alcohol with a “bionic leaf,” which is a bigger deal than you might think.
Social and economic equality and inequality have many root causes. A paper published in the mid-196os examined the “spatial-mismatch hypothesis.” John Kain, an economist at Harvard University, found a significant connection between unemployment rates (especially in minorities) to this theory of the geography of unemployment. The description “spatial mismatch” finds higher low-income community unemployment due … [continued]
Scientists at the University of Southern California created a “natural” battery using quinones, organic compounds that can be found in both plants and animals.
A new type of energy-efficient window — inspired by and recreating the vascular networks found within living organisms — has been created by researchers at the University of Toronto. The new windows work effectively to limit heat loss during the winter and provide a cooling effect during the summer. The … [continued]
A research team from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering together and Harvard Medical School is on track to transform the common bacteria E. coli into a jack-of-all-trades producer of biofuels, pharmaceuticals, plastics and just about anything else that is presently made from petroleum precursors. The trick is … [continued]
Road salt, which keeps our roads and highways passable in winter while poisoning nearby environments, leaching into streams and lakes, and doing nasty things to the metal parts of our cars, may be on its way out. Engineers at Harvard University are developing new nanostructured materials that can prevent surfaces … [continued]
