How one woman reduced her waste to a jar a week

Tippi Thole recycled. She composted. She thought she was doing a pretty good job environmentally. Then she heard a talk on plastics, and the container of trash she and her eight-year-old son emptied out every week began to look irresponsible.

Tippi Thole with a week's worth of household waste.

Thole replaced her 10-gallon (38-litre) can with a small wastebasket that had been under her bathroom sink and started to change the way she shopped and lived. Within 14 weeks, the family's weekly trash fitted into a six-centimetre-tall Mason jar. With room to spare.

Read the comment by Fiona Adams Fogg from The Age - “How one woman reduced her waste to a jar a week.”

Veemo Veleomobile: the innovative electric vehicle by Velometro

Moving around busy cities is always a challenge. Doing so in a clean and environmentally friendly manner is even more challenging. Yet, this is what VeloMetro, an innovative company from Vancouver, British Columbia, is trying to do with its unique vehicle: the Veemo.

The Veemo Velomobile.

VeloMetro was founded by Kody Baker, John Stonier, Jonathan Faille, and Sean Boyd. The four met at an electric vehicle (EV) company back in 2010 and later created an EV engineering consultancy called Perkuna. Perkuna worked both to convert regular vehicles into electric vehicles and to develop innovative EV charging stations.

Deciding to focus fully on VeloMetro forced the founders to temporarily hibernate Perkuna, although many of the concepts they worked on there have found their way into the Veemo vehicle itself, including an innovative battery swapping technology. Today we speak with CEO and founder Kody Baker.

Read the Impackter story by Alessandro Du Besse - “Veemo Veleomobile: the innovative electric vehicle by Velometro.”