Floating city for startups makes waves among entrepreneurs
Blueseed, the startup ship that will bring Silicon Valley to the open waters, is quickly gaining steam among entrepreneurs. The company recently released a report announcing that it already has 133 startup firms interested in becoming tenants of its floating city. Of this group of interested entrepreneurs, 38 percent say they would be ready to [...]

Peru’s coffee growers turn carbon traders to save their farms from climate change
Global warming threatens the future of Peru’s poorest coffee farmers, but one brand thinks it has found an answer on the financial markets. In the foothills of the Andes, in the Sierra Piura region of Peru, the problems faced by coffee farmers are clear. Up to 6,600 farmers produce here for the Central Piurana de [...]

Summer school for less well-off primary pupils
Thousands of children will get ‘top-up’ classes to prepare them for transition to secondary school Seventy thousand primary school leavers will take part in intensive two-week summer schools this year to keep them from falling behind during the six-week break. Nick Clegg will announce tomorrow that the “top-up” lessons will be provided to children from [...]

EU, US Congratulate Algeria on Elections
The European Union and the United States have endorsed Algeria’s parliamentary elections as an important step toward reform, even as some opposition forces expressed suspicion that the vote was fraudulent. The head of the EU observer team there, Jose Salafranca, criticized Algeria Saturday for not giving foreign observers free access to the nationwide electoral roll. [...]

Sobi bicycles
SoBi has built a GPS-enabled bike that you can find and unlock using your mobile phone. These bikes will be used to create an affordable and scalable bike share system that makes cycling more accessible and interactive. Social Cyclists find and unlock bikes using their mobile phones, or unlock them by entering their account information [...]

With great sadness..Shauna Crockett-Burrows, 1930–2012
This taken from her Newspaper’s website.. Founder of the world’s first positive newspaper passes away It is with great regret that we announce that our founder, Shauna Crockett-Burrows, has passed away. A month short of her 82nd birthday – and having been invited to attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace at the end of May [...]

Funding boost for Scottish local food network
Europe’s largest local food network is to receive almost half a million pounds of funding from the Scottish government to encourage more people to choose local and sustainably sourced food. he Fife Diet, which has 3,000 active members, will use the £448,000 grant from the Climate Challenge Fund to measure their reduction in carbon emissions and [...]

Honolulu City Council backs bill to ban plastic bags at store, restaurant checkouts
They drift about on trade winds, marring Hawaii’s landscapes and posing threats to marine life. Floating plastic bags can kill marine animals, such as green sea turtles (hono) that become entangled or ingest the buoyant trash, mistaking it for a jellyfish snack. Also, in addition to cluttering beautiful scenery in the Islands, non-biodegradable plastics and [...]

Toronto Becomes First City To Mandate Green Roofs
Summer is just around the corner, and for those who live in big cities, that means spring warmth will soon give way to searing heat. Green roofs can help regulate city temperatures, giving people, and the electrical grid, a much needed break. Toronto is the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires [...]

US to make profit from bailouts, Treasury says
The US will make a profit from bailing out the nation’s banks and carmakers at the height of the financial crisis, the Treasury Department has said. The bank bailouts may result in a return of $2bn (£1.3bn), the Treasury said in its latest projections for the government’s response to the crisis. And the recovering auto [...]