France Plans to Build 620 Miles of Solar Roads

France has announced plans to build over 600 miles of solar panel roads, joining the likes of the Netherlands and Korea in adopting the forward-thinking technology. The roads will generate enough energy to provide power for roughly 8% of the French population and will take about five years to complete. Head to Fast Company to learn more.

New York to Eliminate Absurd “Conversion Therapy”

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has announced plans to eliminate “conversion therapy,” a practice that claims to turn gay children straight. The plan revolves around economic incentives that would discourage these practices from being used on children. “I think it’s an important message to send to young people that the state is cutting off the oxygen for so-called conversion therapy,” Cuomo stated in …

Otherworldy Images of a Glass Recycling Factory

At the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in Yeruham, Israel, massive mountains of soon-to-be-recycled shards of glass form an eerie, colorful landscape. Sorted into piles of green, brown and clear, the mounds reach up to 50 feet in height and stretch across the distance of several soccer fields. Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer Oded Bality recently traveled to Yeruham to photograph the scraps, producing some otherworldly …