Article from https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/young-woman-in-kenya-makes-plastic-bricks-out-of-recycled-waste/?   on Founder of Gjenge Makers, which transforms plastic waste into durable building materials, Matee also designed the machines that manufacture the bricks in her factory.

3rd Climate & Peace Webinar - Feb 16 - addressing the new (Green Deal) Climate policies from US matching EU, Japan, Korea & China. Asking the question: when will Australia catch up?Speakers include Prof Michael E Mann from Penn State University (shared Nobel Prize with IPCC Authors), Prof Maxine Burkett, a world expert on Environmental Law & Climate Justice and Marian Wilkinson, award-winning Australian Journalist & author of the Carbon Club.Broadcast live at breakfast-time AEDT from 7.30am Register via www.climateandpeace.com.au

US Defence research agency (DARPA) is underway with innovative projects to test unmanned underwater vehicles - testing if they can operate for extended periods without human support. While typically a defence use case, how navigation, energy management and corrosion is tackled could help accelerate other industrieshttps://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-02-05aimage credit: slashgear.com (march 2020)

While a wall is usually designed to keep people apart, this see-saw installation managed to bring people on both sides of the Mexi

Irish company Digisoft TV is using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to create immersive training environments for the new normal. The company recreates an organisation’s day-to-day working environment and/or production lines into a digital version with people able to interact on any type of device, so they can train remotely in social distancing times or to prevent contamination in environments which need to be kept very clean. It also improves the standard of training because the sensory experience of photorealistic immersive training results is 6-7 times the level of knowledge retention in trainees when compared with traditional presentations.