Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: August 13, 2016 Audrey Berman (right) founded Long Table Harvest, a food recovery organization, earlier this year. They’ve already saved many van loads of produce, but getting funding has been tough. Long Table Harvest By Joseph...
Source: globalcompostproject.org Published: August 24, 2016 Here in San Francisco, residents are given a free bin to collect compost materials. This is in an effort to eliminate all waste in landfills. Tara explains how you can make your own compost bin right in your...
Source: trueactivist.com Published: August 24, 2016 Credit: LAPI 2016 by: Amanda Froelich It’s no secret that California is in the midst of a devastating drought. Though Governor Jerry Brown implemented California’s first-ever mandatory water restrictions last year,...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 19, 2016 Image via Wikipedia Written by Greg Beach One of America’s dirtiest cities has completely altered its legacy as one of the country’s greenest. Over the last few decades, Chattanooga, Tennessee has been transformed from...
Source: kqed.org Published: August 15, 2016 The tiny water purifier doesn’t require batteries and uses the visible spectrum of light to help kill bacteria. (Chong Liu and Jin Xie/Stanford University) Lindsey Hoshaw A tiny black tablet could prove to be a...
Source: triplepundit.com Published: August 16, 2016 Image credit: Serres Toundra Words by Leon Kaye Last week, a Canadian carbon capture technology firm announced a new project that will trap carbon dioxide emissions from a pulp and paper plant and transfer them to a...
Source: ibtimes.com Published: August 17, 2016 By Susmita Baral Scientists in Germany are exploring how aquatic plants can help clean up oil spills and there appears to be some potential in water plants. The team of researchers, who published their findings in the...
Source: theguardian.com Published: August 11, 2015 Illustration showing how Kepler Energy’s turbine rotor blades will look installed in a tidal fence configuration. Photograph: Kepler Energy Alex Kirby for Climate News Network, part of the Guardian Environment Network...
Source: laweekly.com Published: August 1, 2016 Credit: alohavictoria/Flickr Dennis Romero Freeways inspire road rage, serve as giant trash receptacles and take us home, often very slowly. And now, a new statewide initiative means they could soon be generating some...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 10, 2016 The material’s incredible moisture-retaining abilities come from its high polysaccharide and pectin content. by Orion Rodriguez In the midst of South Africa’s worst drought in recorded history, one Johannesburg...
