Kate Yoder – Alternative Energies

Kate Yoder
america
award
January 20, 2016
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Leo DiCaprio wins award, pledges $15 million to the planet

Nothing makes us swoon like a lionhearted climate change warrior. So today’s climate crush should come as no surprise: Leonardo DiCaprio, the celebrity face of fixing our planet. On Tuesday, DiCaprio received yet another award — where does he keep all 100 million of them, an award room? — and pledged $15 million to environmental groups. The award was for his leadership in confronting the climate crisis and was presented at the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Awards in Davos, Switzerland. Mashable breaks down where his donations are going: $6 million to Oceana and Skytruth for Global Fishing Watch $1 million to the Nature Conservancy for Seychelles debt for nature swap $3.2 million to Rainforest Action Network and Haka to protect Sumatran rainforest $3.4 million to Clearwater…

Kate Yoder
agency
called-the-food
January 8, 2016
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EPA and religious groups team up to fight food waste

Quiz time! When it comes to America’s food waste problem, WWJD? Would he: A) “Save” that questionable block of cheese, B) Turn wine back into water, or C) Start an interfaith effort to reduce the amount of food headed to the dump? Who knows? Food waste is a complicated problem. But here’s something that may surprise you: The Environmental Protection Agency is pulling their own version of option C, and it’s called the Food Steward’s Pledge — “an initiative to engage religious groups of all faiths to help redirect the food that ends up in landfills to hungry mouths,” according to NPR. The EPA’s effort to bring religious zeal to our nation’s food squandering problem is one way to approach…

Kate Yoder
athanassiou
bristol
December 30, 2015
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Biodegradable robots? Not satisfied with stealing jobs, robots elbow in on death

When it comes to creating robots that look like humans, we’re getting good — uncannily good. And one expert has claimed that in 15 years, they’ll be smarter than us, too. But until recently, we haven’t devoted much thought to the robotic afterlife. Where, exactly, does a robot go when it has outlived its usefulness? Most robots are made from metal and plastic — and I’d hazard a guess that your out-of-commission Roomba isn’t headed to the compost pile. But in the future, it looks like our artificial friends could be going six feet under along with the rest of us. A team of scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) are on a mission to engineer completely biodegradable robots. Their…