- 🇨🇭 🔋 💧 🤩 Switzerland’s 20 million kWh water battery is now operational. “… the equivalent of 400,000 electric cars, and is aimed at helping stabilize the energy grid in Switzerland and other connected grids in Europe”
- 🇰🇷 🚢 🤖 Hyundai's autonomous ship is the first to make a transoceanic journey. “By making ships autonomous, the maritime industry thinks it could make the seas safer, too, while also making shipping cleaner and more efficient.”
- 🇦🇺 🪱 ♻️ These kinds of discoveries are multiplying. ‘Superworms’ may hold the key to world's trash crisis. “A bunch of small but hungry bugs might hold the key to saving the planet thanks to their uncanny ability to devour polystyrene — the material behind plastic foam.”
- 🇩🇪 💯 💪🏼 🚙 German Court Rules SUV Owners Can Be Fined More for Breaking Traffic Laws. “A court in Frankfurt, Germany, ruled earlier this month that an SUV driver who ran a red light should be charged nearly twice the normal fine as someone in a smaller car due to the increased risk his vehicle posed to pedestrians.”
- 🇵🇷 ☀️ 🏠 Puerto Ricans are powering their own rooftop solar boom. “Residents and shop owners are installing solar-plus-battery systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Will the government get on board?”
- 🇺🇸 🐻 💪🏼 The Comanagement of Bears Ears Is an Important Step in Tackling Climate Change. “The BLM, U.S. Forest Service, and Five Tribes of the Intertribal Coalition signed a cooperative management agreement for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument. It marks a shift in our history at a time when we’ve never needed to collaborate more.”
- 🇨🇴 💪🏼 🌊 Colombia’s shift to the left: A new ‘pink tide’ in Latin America?. “Left-wing Gustava Petro’s election victory in Colombia signals the rise of a new brand of socialism in the region.”
Note — Jul 10, 2022