EVERY JAGUAR AND LAND ROVER LAUNCHED FROM 2020 WILL BE ELECTRIFIED
FROM 2020 ALL NEW JAGUAR LAND ROVER VEHICLES WILL BE ELECTRIFIED. THE COMPANY MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT AT ITS INAUGURAL TECH FEST, A SERIES OF DEBATES AND A FREE PUBLIC EXHIBITION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY.
JAGUAR FUTURE-TYPE
The Jaguar FUTURE-TYPE is a vision for the car of 2040 and beyond. The fully autonomous virtual concept explores mobility for the connected world of tomorrow, where vehicles could be shared not owned.
With Future Type’s interface you can separately access your different digital orbits of work, family or play, dialling up what you do need, and dialling down what you don’t.
RizeClub loves heroes who take on big marsshot missions. Boyan Slat and his global team have taken on the challenge to clean up our oceans – THE LARGEST CLEANUP IN HISTORY
OVER 5 TRILLION PIECES OF PLASTIC CURRENTLY LITTER THE OCEAN
Trash accumulates in 5 ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean.
Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup at the age of 18 in his hometown of Delft, the Netherlands.
“Plastic waste is suffocating our oceans and our planet. Every year we add 300 million ton of plastic waste to the pile we already have. Less than 10% is recycled or re-used. The rest is burned, landfilled or ends up in the environment or our oceans.” Jan Jaap Folmer Chief Upp! and OUTNR.org member. (more…)
Meet our “robber baron” members Michael Boot and Panos Kouris.
Summary from the agro-chemistry article: Michael Boot already went to the Chamber of Commerce before the summer vacation. With his company Vertoro he plans to scale up a process which produces a crude lignin oil (CLO) based on lignin. ‘Our secret? Mainly that we don’t make our process any fancier than it has to be.’ (more…)
Talented people want to work on meaningful things – come join XY Marketplace for project-based work that solves global challenges (more…)
Rasmus Valanko; For those interested in sustainability careers, keep an eye on the WBCSD careers page. I have a couple positions up at the moment but others will follow. http://careers.wbcsd.org/jobs/ (more…)
