LA Sets an Example of Environmental Resistance With recycLA

Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: October 26, 2017 Vintage King Audio in Echo Park increased its recycling rate to 90% and its trash bill was cut in half. Roxana Tynan 2017 has reminded us in stark terms, whether through devastating hurricanes, fires, floods, or...

MIT Students Fortify Concrete by Adding Recycled Plastic

Source: news.mit.edu Published: October 25, 2017 “Our technology takes plastic out of the landfill, locks it up in concrete, and also uses less cement to make the concrete, which makes fewer carbon dioxide emissions,” says assistant professor Michael Short. Image: MIT...

Your Tears Can Generate Electricity

Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: October 19, 2017 Aimee Stapleton and other researchers at the University of Limerick have found that lysozyme—in tears, saliva, mucus, milk and chicken eggs—accumulates an electric charge when squeezed. (Sean Curtin, True...

World’s First Floating Wind Farm Now Operating in Scotland

Source: treehugger.com Published: October 19, 2017 © Øyvind Gravås / Woldcam – Statoil ASA We’ve been following the development of the Hywind floating wind farm project with great interest, and were super encouraged when it was followed by...

How a Forest with More Mammals Stores More Carbon

Source: organicconsumers.org Published: October 18, 2017 by Brandon Keim To the many moral and practical reasons for protecting the creatures with whom we share this blue marble, add one more. They might help Earth safely store more carbon. Writing in the...