Jun 15, 2021 | News from our pilots
The Restart Project sourced and analysed environmental impact data on nearly 500 household products (primarily electrical and electronic devices) to reveal the environmental cost that many companies hide. Their results are shared here:...
Jun 9, 2021 | News from our pilots
A few days ago, the Restart Project has launched “TabiCat”, a fun opportunity to collaboratively analyse data on over 900 tablets brought to repair events around the world. The data comes from their Restart Parties, as well as datasets from other...
Jun 3, 2021 | News from our pilots
Humans share space with other creatures all the time, yet we often overlook how much effect plants have on the environment we share. Trees have a huge potential to affect the local and global environment, and research from the Crowther Lab in Zürich has suggested that...
May 3, 2021 | News from our pilots
How can a design and creative approach help us re-discover and re-imagine the places we live in? It has been just over a year since in 2020 Rio Neiva – Environmental NGO implemented a citizen science pilot project titled “In My Backyard”, supported...
May 2, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano & Rafael Fuentetaja Light pollution is estimated from nocturnal measures of sky brightness and color. The research teams use cameras with astronomical color filters. These professional devices are very expensive and this is why only some...
Apr 22, 2021 | News from our pilots
To celebrate Earth Day 2021, The Restart Project is launching PrintCat, a people-powered investigation into why printers break so often. They want to understand why printers fail so that we can tell policymakers how future models can be made to last longer and be...
