Work worth doing, and growth that does not hollow the earth.
PressTransportation and logistics · Supply chainAbout Ferragamo
An Italian house publishes deeper country-of-origin visibility for leather — early traceability under a rising EU rule wave.
Materials science · Sustainable textilesAbout Aijek
A Singapore relaunch that bans polyester blends and centres Balinese cutwork shows sustainability as design constraint — and labour proximity.
EU green-claims rules
Omnibus-era rules draw a line around what under-1,000-employee suppliers can be forced to answer for CSRD reporting — proportionality as industrial courtesy.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chainAbout Ferragamo
Ferragamo’s reported origin visibility for most leather is a first mile of traceability — useful, incomplete, and newly newsworthy.
PressMaterials science · Sustainable textilesAbout Aijek
After a long pause, a Singapore label rebuilds on biodegradable naturals and Balinese kerawang — scale chosen, not performed.
Technology · Nuclear
Every radiographer, cardiologist and nuclear plant technician wears a small badge that records the radiation they receive.
Energy · Geothermal energy
Turkey has become one of the world's fastest-growing geothermal markets in the past fifteen years, and most of its plants rely on equipment designed by a single company that started in a small workshop in Israel in 1965.
Energy · Nuclear energyAbout Nuclear Power Corporation of India
India has built heavy water reactors since the 1970s, but for decades its standard unit was a modest 220 MW.
Energy · Nuclear energy
Large nuclear projects in Europe have become famous for delays and overruns.
Energy · Solar energy
Europe installs tens of gigawatts of solar every year but makes only a tiny share of the panels itself.
Energy · Solar energy
Almost every solar panel in the world is made from crystalline silicon, and most of that silicon supply chain runs through China.
Energy · Solar energy
India wants to install hundreds of gigawatts of solar and to make the equipment itself rather than import it from China.
Energy · Wind energy
Much of India's remaining wind potential sits at sites with only moderate wind, where older turbines struggled to pay their way.
Energy · Wind energy
Offshore wind is Europe's biggest bet for clean, home-grown power, and fewer, larger turbines make it cheaper to build and run.
Materials science · Circular economy
India generated almost 14 lakh tonnes of e-waste in 2024 to 25, and its electric vehicle boom will soon add a wave of spent lithium-ion batteries.
Materials science · Circular economy
Every year millions of starters, alternators and steering systems are replaced in European workshops, and most of the metal in them is still perfectly good.
Materials science · Circular economy
Most smartphones are replaced after a few years, and the cobalt, gold and rare earths inside them are rarely recovered.
Materials science · Circular economy
Most laptops are replaced when one part ages: a slow processor, too little memory or a tired battery.
Materials science · Circular economyAbout SHIFT
Repairable phones have usually forced a trade-off: screws instead of glue meant little protection from water and dust.
Materials science · Recyclable products
Most of India's plastic recycling happens in small, informal units that turn used bottles into low-grade granules for buckets and pipes.
Materials science · Reusable products
Chip packets are among the hardest plastics to recycle, and a deodorant stick is usually thrown away every two months.
Green architecture · Micro climate systemsAbout Ant Studio
Indian households have cooled drinking water in clay pots for centuries. Ant Studio turned the idea inside out, cooling air by blowing it through wet terracotta cones.
Green architecture · Resource lifecycle
India's metal foundries throw away fine, dusty sand that is too small to reuse. Its towns are full of plastic too dirty or mixed to recycle. A Gujarat foundry machinery firm melts one into the other and presses the result into paver blocks.
Green architecture · Resource lifecycle
Most office strip-outs end in a skip. Rotor DC sends in its own team first, takes out the tiles, stone, timber, doors and lamps that still have value, cleans them and puts them on sale.
Transportation and logistics · Logistics software
The last mile, from depot to doorstep, is the most expensive and often the most polluting part of a delivery, full of failed drop-offs, half-empty vans and drivers circling for addresses.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chain
An electric car battery holds lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite that may have crossed several continents and changed hands a dozen times. Until recently, almost nobody could prove where those materials came from, or how much carbon they carried.
Eco-restoration · CleanTech
Replanting a degraded forest by hand is slow, costly and often impossible on steep or remote ground. Planting a few fast-growing species is quicker, but it does not bring back a living forest.
Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry
A Swedish battery saw with the power of a 40cc petrol model and a clutch that protects the chain and motor, aimed at thinning crews and arborists who want less noise, less vibration and no exhaust.
Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry
Disease-resistant tree clones grown by the million at a nursery in Telangana and sold to farmers, who grow them on their own land and sell the wood back for paper and board.
Advanced technology · Deep space exploration
When Chandrayaan-3 lifted off for the Moon in July 2023, the engines in its rocket's core stage and the thrust chamber of its cryogenic upper stage had been made in a Mumbai suburb better known for locks and steel cupboards. Godrej Aerospace has supplied ISRO for decades and has now delivered the first human-rated engine for India's crewed Gaganyaan programme.
Advanced technology · Extreme environment engineering
In parts of refineries, offshore platforms and chemical plants, a single spark could ignite the air. A small company in Delft builds wheeled robots certified to work safely in those zones, patrolling twice a day, reading gauges and detecting gas leaks while people stay away. In June 2026 its ExR-2.5 became the first robot to earn UL's new hazardous location certification.
Advanced technology · Extreme environment engineering
Every year, sanitation workers in India die inside sewers and septic tanks, overcome by toxic gas or drowned in sludge. A group of young engineers from Kerala built Bandicoot, a robot that climbs down a manhole and does the cleaning while the operator stays at the surface. It now works in more than 180 towns and cities across 23 states.
