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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Limiting women in the workplace is costing us trillions

...smart and simple solution, with a massive return on investment: women. This missed opportunity is costing us. The World Bank estimates that nations leave $160 trillion on the table each year by keepin...

22 Jan 2019

Limiting women in the workplace is costing us trillions

Rice farming is critical to Cambodia's economy and food security, but the crop contributes to loss of natural habitat in the Southeast Asian country. Image:

News / Food & Agriculture

How can Cambodian farming survive climate change?

...Smart to introduce the locally-designed Eli Rice Seeder. This uses air pressure to push rice seed into wet or flooded soils and can reduce the amount of seed required by up to two-thirds, while increa...

22 Mar 2019

How can Cambodian farming survive climate change?

Opinion / Green Buildings

Are you keeping up with a greener Singapore?

...Smart technologies are an integral part of green buildings. As built environments become greener and smarter, there will be more demand for agile products and systems that are smart, cyber-secure and ...

23 Nov 2018

Are you keeping up with a greener Singapore?

Press Releases / Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls redefines smart building management with Metasys 10.0

...smarter building automation, faster responses to critical alarms and new integrations with fire detection, and security and lighting systems—all with visibility from a single common interface. ...

19 Dec 2018

Johnson Controls redefines smart building management with Metasys 10.0

a shelf of cockroaches at Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Co., in Jinan, China. WOCHIT NEWS YOUTUBE

News / Cities

The coolest sustainability innovations of 2019

...Smart trash sorter Shanghai was the first city in China to enforce new regulations for waste management this year, with steep fines for citizens who do not sort their waste properly. To help people so...

24 Dec 2019

The coolest sustainability innovations of 2019

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Tech accelerators help nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

...smarts towards solving urgent environmental problems. It’s the fourth large, global environmental organisation to take this new tack in the past two years, following The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Ocea...

5 Apr 2019

Tech accelerators help nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

The team working on Dai Nippon Printing's innovations to reduce single-use plastic use in Singapore. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

Why is this reusable container scheme in Singapore not working?

...smart phone screens and plastic packaging for consumer goods companies, has started to think about ways to reduce the environmental footprint of its products. “A big wave of disruption is coming [for ...

10 Dec 2019

Why is this reusable container scheme in Singapore not working?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Four lessons we should learn from the pandemic

...smart data analysis are the fuel that drives ESG investing. Early evidence is already suggesting that ESG investing is gaining greater relevance in the light of the pandemic. Moving forward, the conv...

15 Apr 2020

Four lessons we should learn from the pandemic

Press Releases / ID Capital Pte Ltd

Announcing Future Food Asia 2020 #FoodIsTheNewCool

...smart phones, and read newspapers and magazines, all of which depend on Bühler process technologies and solutions. Having this global relevance, we are in a unique position to turn today’s ...

2 Mar 2020

Announcing Future Food Asia 2020 #FoodIsTheNewCool

Opinion / Cities

As cities go smart, vulnerable populations are pushed further to the margins

...smarter” by using data and digital technology to build more efficient and livable urban environments. This makes sense: with urban populations growing and infrastructure under strain, smart cities wil...

11 Jun 2018

As cities go smart, vulnerable populations are pushed further to the margins

News / Manufacturing

Cellphones are endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help

...smart phones were sold worldwide in 2017—mobile phone recycling is offered at zoos across the world and could make a much larger impact on gorilla conservation if similar campaigns were rolled out in ...

21 Jan 2019

Cellphones are endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help

Opinion / Cities

Green gentrification: How climate action in cities can avoid fueling inequality

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 14 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs, homes and possessions. But some people were hit harder than others. Nearly two-thirds of jobs lost...

16 Dec 2019

Green gentrification: How climate action in cities can avoid fueling inequality

News / Food & Agriculture

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

...smart phones, fast food and Western hotel chains. Its people eat an average of 155 kg of rice a year, according to a 2016 survey by the country's rice federation and Yezin Agricultural University, ens...

11 Jun 2019

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

News / Cities

Who are the tycoons controlling the new Indonesian capital?

...smart city or a green city is just a dream, especially the zero-emission [promise], that’s highly impossible,” he said. “Because opening up new land itself already creates emissions, using cement [for...

7 Jan 2020

Who are the tycoons controlling the new Indonesian capital?

Opinion / Cities

Making green cities mainstream

Greening our cities has become one of the great global imperatives of the 21st century including to tackle climate change. And Australia’s sprawling car-based cities are gradually changing to embrace ...

9 Jul 2019

Making green cities mainstream

News / Energy

Is blockchain an overhyped tool for Asia's energy transition?

...smart eyewear could today be said to be overhyped, the technology could prove itself in future. The same thing could be said about blockchain and its use in the transition of the energy sector from fo...

30 Sep 2019

Is blockchain an overhyped tool for Asia's energy transition?

Builders work together to finish a house.

News / Green Buildings

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

...smarter coatings applications, enhanced functionality for cleaner, more responsive or adaptive coatings, circular solutions, life science infused technologies for coatings, and solutions for more pred...

8 Jul 2019

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Can blockchain unblock climate finance?

...smart” contracts are programmed to automatically trigger payments when certain conditions are met. Gainforest is using smart contracts to incentivise small-scale Amazonian farmers to preserve the rai...

22 May 2018

Can blockchain unblock climate finance?

News / Cities

Crops in the clouds: The rise of rooftop farming in space-starved Hong Kong

...smart cities" around the world actually allows city-goers to live smarter. "Are we smarter in getting closer to nature for our wellbeing? Are we smarter in the way we design our neighbourhoods, allowi...

14 Nov 2019

Crops in the clouds: The rise of rooftop farming in space-starved Hong Kong

Opinion / Manufacturing

Fairtrade renewable energy: Shedding light on clean energy's dirty secrets

...smart meters—the household devices which track energy usage and charge consumers accordingly—returned an unsatisfactory verdict. The saving for the UK consumer was found to be only £11 per year—disapp...

8 Aug 2018

Fairtrade renewable energy: Shedding light on clean energy's dirty secrets

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