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Jan 15, 2025 | 
springwise.com | Matilda Cox
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
springwise.com | Matilda Cox
Spotted: A key sticking point in the global transition to EVs remains infrastructure, with a lack of convenient charging points leading to so-called “range anxiety” among drivers who are on the fence about making an electric car. This isn’t just an issue for individual drivers – owners of large commercial fleets must also keep charging front-of-mind when it comes to managing electric fleets or considering making the switch to EVs. Now, Synop wants to ease that anxiety.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
springwise.com | Duncan Whitmore |Matilda Cox
Spotted: Air conditioning generates around 3.2 per cent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. But because of the significant role they play in protecting public health, simply getting rid of cooling technologies isn’t an option – despite their sizeable carbon footprint. In fact, it’s estimated that ACs prevented almost 200,000 premature deaths related to extreme heat in 2019.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
springwise.com | Matilda Cox
Spotted: Companies across virtually every industry will, at some point, need to make sense of complex location-based data. However, traditional Geographic Information System (GIS) software – which integrates relevant information onto digital maps to help users visualise the data – can be expensive and inaccessible, compromising an organisation’s ability to act on information and make decisions effectively. Now, Atlas.co wants to change that.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
springwise.com | Matilda Cox
Spotted: Affordable housing continues to be inaccessible for many people around the world, not least in the US. As a result, in California alone, around 186,000 people currently live either on the streets or in homeless shelters. When it comes to tackling homelessness, much of the focus and funding goes toward permanent housing, which takes huge amounts of money and time to build.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
springwise.com | Matilda Cox
Spotted: In a bid to reduce plastic pollution, many single-use packaging options are being phased out around the world – including the disposable plastic cups used across thousands of festivals and sports matches every year. That means organisers need to embrace reusable alternatives, and Belgian startup Borro hopes to make this task as easy and cheap as possible. Often, switching to circular container systems comes with a host of logistical difficulties.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
springwise.com | Matilda Cox
Spotted: According to the International Energy Agency‘s roadmap, if the world is going to stand a chance at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, renewables will need to make up around 90 per cent of total electricity generation by 2050, with solar and wind making up 70 per cent of that. The deployment of renewables has been impressive in recent years, but it still needs to ramp up if we’re going to achieve these ambitious targets.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
springwise.com | Matilda Cox
Spotted: More than ever before, our news headlines and social media feeds are full of stories of natural disasters and extreme weather, from flooding in Valencia to Hurricane Helene in Florida just this year. This frequent exposure to the realities of climate change is causing a rise in what’s now called climate, or eco, anxiety. This anxiety can lead to feelings of powerlessness, resulting in inaction.
