The Kiwi Wars: The intellectual property battle raging between NZ and China

Photo: In Beijing, the legitimate SunGold kiwifruit is very popular. Zespri believes counterfeit fruits are not being sold in so-called tier one Chinese cities. (ABC News ) Cuttings of prized SunGold kiwifruits were smuggled to China and NZ growers are divided over […]

Some American cities have eight parking spaces for every car

Photo: [Photos: Rafael Randy Cardoso Garcia/iStock, Nicholas Nace/iStock] 15 June 2021 | DANIEL BALDWIN HESS AND JEFFREY REHLER | Fast Company For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third […]

Report: Half of clothes sold by online fashion brands ‘made from virgin plastic’

Approximately half of the clothes sold by large online fashion brands such as Boohoo and Asos use ‘virgin plastic,’ or plastic that contains no recycled material. 11 June 2021 | Zoe Wood | The Guardian Approximately half of the clothes […]

The Needy Billionaire Race to Space

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson could fly to space just a bit earlier than Blue Origin and SpaceX’s founders. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images Move over, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk — Richard Branson may be the first of the space firm founders to […]

San Jose approves Google’s downtown village and campus plan

Photo: SITELAB urban studio, Google San Fernando Street area of Google’s proposed Downtown West transit-oriented neighborhood in downtown San Jose, showing buildings in the project near a light rail line and existing building, concept 26 May 2021 |  Maggie Angst […]