Tag: Shopping

Deciding on a foreign university is easier with first-hand information. Those wishing to practise a sustainable lifestyle away from home, however, often spend a long time looking for the right shops and restaurants. Now a Munich-based startup is making the process easier thanks to its new digital platform. It contains an index of firms and businesses that offer sustainable...

For some, the new year will bring a new job or perhaps a new flat. Others, meanwhile, will be thinking about making lifestyle changes. With their app, this startup from Hamburg is rewarding those who want to live more sustainably. A questionnaire helps users calculate their unique CO2 footprint. The app then provides playful tips on how it can...

Sometimes it’s easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle. Or carry cargo through a city’s narrow streets. Two new EVs from a Seville-based startup could prove equally useful. The three-wheeled, tilt-proof vans, fusing a scooter and cargo box, are less than a metre wide and can travel at up to 45 km/h. They are available...

If we buy fish and chips, it’s probably because we’re hungry, or have an appetite for it. However, the motivation behind other on-site purchases can be harder to explain. Using modern analysis tools, dominant online companies can analyze vast stores of data. Now, in a bid to make in-store retail competitive, a startup is combining local shopping with a...

A bank card made of trees? If you didn't know better you'd say Pinocchio was doing some blue-sky thinking about the 21st century. But it's true: the first ever wooden credit card is here, supported by a sustainable search engine whose passion is global reforestation. The latter’s model, where trees are planted with the advertising income generated by search...