StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 90 HurricaneMitigation is an international climate change relief charity that helps areas in the path of hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones to prepare for higher-incidence and higher-strength storms as a result of global warming. The charity is funded by the governments of industrialised countries. Some 80% of the funding is disbursed to help disaster-prone regions to act in advance to minimise potential property damage and loss of life, while the remaining 20% is spent on post-storm relief measures. STORM-PROOF TECHNOLOGY An example of mitigation measures is the use of long screws to attach house roofs to walls and foundations, instead of the use of nails. Research shows that nailed roofs are much more likely to be damaged or blown away in a storm than roofs fixed with screws. Another storm-proof technology in coastal and littoral areas with a high risk of storm surges and flooding is the construction of houses on stilts/columns. CEO QUOTE "Act in ant...

StartupRealities No 53 TombSolar is a renewable energy producer that installs solar panels at cemeteries; while its sister company SolarTomb is a cemetery operator that sells burial plots covered by solar panels. TombSolar installs panels at cemeteries owned or operated by other companies, while SolarTomb owns and runs both the cemeteries and the solar installations. SolarTomb has a premium division that builds tombs and tombstones with a photovoltaic (PV) film cladding, so that individual graves can generate solar electricity even without a solar panel cover. CEO QUOTE "Turning the ashes of your grandparents into a diamond is meaningful but is already kind of old-fashioned. Why not have your grandparents generate energy instead? Even if grandma and grandpa weren't militant environmentalists, they probably wouldn't mind helping out to slow down global warming. Who would mind having a solar panel installed on their grave, for the sake of climate change?" - the fou...