Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 30, 2017 In these uncertain times of erratic weather and changing climate patterns, net-zero energy (or NZE) is quickly becoming the gold standard in green building. If you can generate all of your own energy on site, you never...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: January 30, 2017 Nexus Media By Owen Agnew Rod Read, an engineer and stay-at-home dad, lives on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland. For the past seven years, he’s been designing a kite that he thinks could revolutionize wind power....
Source: northcoastjournal.com Published: January 31, 2017 From Oscar®-winning director Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist, Claude Lorius, whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear...
Source: phys.org Published: January 30, 2017 From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and black carbon wrapped around plastic in water with...
Source: marketwatch.com Published: January 6, 2017 Nemo’s Garden uses underwater biospheres to grow edible plants and is almost completely self-sustainable. NEMO’S GARDEN Can we grow food beneath the waves in a safe, self-sustainable way? By JURICA DUJMOVIC The...
Source: greenbiz.com Published: March 26, 2016 By Eric Toensmeier The following is adapted from The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security by Eric Toensmeier...
Source: mnn.com Published: January 25, 2017 Alexandra Park, a large urban park in Manchester, England, is getting some leafy company thanks to the City of Trees initiative, which will oversee the planting of 3 million new trees while caring for and reviving existing...
Source: telegraph.co.uk Published: September 30, 2015 Freevolt harvests waste energy from radio waves to power devices Photo: (c) John Rensten By Sophie Curtis 1Freevolt, a new technology that harvests electricity from disused radio waves, could be used to power...
Source: worldcoal.org Published: January 26, 2017 Carbon capture, use and storage technology will be key to reducing global CO2 emissions, not only from coal, but also natural gas and industrial sources. To discover more about the pathway towards zero emissions coal,...
Source: ecopreneurist.com Published: February 21, 2016 by Steve Hanley BioMason is a North Carolina startup company that manufactures bricks without heat or clay. About 8% of global carbon emissions come from making bricks, according to the company’s...
