A Volkswagen factory in Poland is using 100 sheep to maintain its solar farm, cutting mowing while boosting biodiversity and research.
Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
Seeking a $54 billion arsenal of killer drones, Pentagon turns to former hobbyists
A company that uses drones to analyze golf course grass. Another linked to a firm that hosts aerial light shows. And one founded by a 23-year-old former drone racing world champion. Any of them, the P...
With $2.7M in Funding, Vylit Unveils a New Era of Allure With Its 18+ Social Media Meets Creator Platform Opening Up Monetization To The Masses
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vylit announced the close of its $2.7 million seed round, led by Windmill Chain, in support of a new kind of social media meets creator...
Vylit Raises $2.7 Million In Funding Led By Windmill Chain Fund With Investors Manifest Financial And Aaron Day
Vylit, a new AI-powered platform for the adult-friendly creator economy, has raised $2.7 million in funding led by Windmill Chain Fund, with participation from angel investors including Manifest Financial and Aaron Day, CEO and founder of Amaze. Founded by former OnlyFans CEO Amrapali (Ami) Gan and Kailey Magder, Vylit aims to make monetization more accessible for emerging creators by combining the discoverability of platforms like Instagram or TikTok with the creator tools of OnlyFans. The web-based platform, set to launch in December 2025, will allow adult-oriented but non-explicit content and use AI image generation to help creators engage with and grow their audiences. INVESTORS: Windmill Chain Fund, Manifest Financial & Aaron Day AMOUNT: $2,700,000 HQ: #NewYork #NY #NewYorkCity #NYC #VentureCapital #Vylit #AmrapaliAmiGan #KaileyMagder #WindmillChainFund #ManifestFinancial #AaronDay#TradedVC
Ruth Watson: Inside the new grassroots movement that wants your support
THE fields near my home are bursting with life. Lambs are big enough to rampage through their flocks in headlong, head-butting gangs. Highland cows…
Solar panels were known to attract birds, but they are now drawing in species never seen in these areas before
New research from the University of Cambridge has found that some birds species are making a triumphant return to the area around solar panels in England.
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
Crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: a review
AbstractParadoxically, the number of crop–livestock farms is declining across Europe, despite the fact that crop-livestock farms are theoretically optimal to improve the sustainability of agriculture. To solve this issue, crop–livestock integration may be organized beyond the farm level. For instance, local groups of farmers can negotiate land-use allocation patterns and exchange materials such as manure, grain, and straw. Development of such a collective agricultural system raises questions, rarely documented in the literature, about how to integrate crops and livestock among farms, and the consequences, impacts, and conditions of integrating them. Here, we review the different forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level, their potential benefits, and the features of decision support systems (DSS) needed for the integration process. We identify three forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: local coexistence, complementarity, and synergy, each with increasingly stronger temporal, spatial, and organizational coordination among farms. We claim that the forms of integration implemented define the nature, area, and spatial configuration of crops, grasslands, and animals in farms and landscapes. In turn, these configurations influence the provision of ecosystem services. For instance, we show that the synergy form of integration promotes soil fertility, erosion control, and field-level biological regulation services through organizational coordination among farmers and spatiotemporal integration between crops, grasslands, and animals. We found that social benefits of the synergy form of integration include collective empowerment of farmers. We claim that design of the complementarity and synergy forms of crop–livestock integration can best be supported by collective participatory workshops involving farmers, agricultural consultants, and researchers. In these workshops, spatialized simulation modeling of crop–livestock integration among farms is the basis for achieving the upscaling process involved in integrating beyond the farm level. Facilitators of these workshops have to pay attention to the consequences on governance and equity issues within farmers groups.
Ukraine's DIY drone makers are helping fighters on the front lines
The war in Ukraine is now largely being fought with drones. Ukraine made 2 million last year. Drone makers churn them out in factories and mom-and-pop operations like one in a Kyiv basement apartment.
T1 Energy | Advanced American Solar & Battery Manufacturing
T1 Energy builds domestic solar and battery supply chains through advanced American manufacturing. Scalable, reliable, and low-cost energy for America.
Global Electricity Review 2026 | Ember
Solar surge halts fossil generation rise as clean power meets all demand growth and renewables overtake coal
WWOOF | World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
A world filled with nature, fresh air, good food, hands-on farming, and community.
Around 80% of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was reportedly furloughed weeks before its release | VGC
Staff don’t know if they’ll all get their jobs back again…
