Source: ecowatch.com Published: February 16, 2016 Students from the sustainability management program who worked on the New Haven Farms project. Photo credit: Tim Lyons By Columbia University In the Fair Haven section of New Haven, Conn., rates of obesity and diabetes...
Source: pri.org Published: January 31, 2016 A proof-of-concept device built by MIT researchers demonstrates the principle of a two-stage process to make incandescent bulbs more efficient. This device already achieves efficiency comparable to some compact fluorescent...
Source: scoopwhoop.com Published: August 29, 2015 Source: India Times Excessive plastic is no longer a problem for Jamshedpur. Thanks to the work of the Jamshedpur Utility and Services Company (JUSCO), which is a subsidiary company of Tata Steel. This city is the...
Source: eveningtimes.co.uk Published: February 10, 2016 Glasgow’s first zero waste micro cafe opens – in a Tardis By Stacey Mullen Glasgow’s iconic Tardis police box is operating as the city’s first zero waste micro cafe. Brew Box Coffee was...
Source: phys.org Published: February 17, 2016 This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop. Credit: Atul Jain New research has identified regions in the United States where bioenergy...
Source: treehugger.com Published: October 15, 2015 Megan Treacy Screen capture MIT / YouTube The remote jungle village of La Mancalona on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico has gone from a place where clean water was scarce, bottled water expensive and soda much cheaper...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 27, 2016 by Ana Lisa Cal Poly Pomona’s architecture students Kirill Volchinskiy, Hana Lemseffer and Necils Lopez have been working for more than a year on the design of an educational center for ‘Huerta del Valle’, a...
Source: unreasonable.is Published: January 15, 2016 Close-up of EcoDom plastic panel. Brittany Lane This post is part of a series of stories featuring the entrepreneurs who participated in Unreasonable Mexico’s second annual program. Enough plastic is thrown away...
Source: hobbyfarms.com Published: January 18, 2016 Avoid weeds and build soil with sheet mulch—it’s a heckuva lot easier than weeding the garden! by Lynsey Grosfield There are few places in the natural world—short of deserts, beaches and rocky landscapes—where the...
Source: treehugger.com Published: December 22, 2015 Video screen capture Agenda Gotsch Sami Grover When Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch bought 1,200 acres of completely deforested land on the edge of the rainforest in 1984, it was known as “Dry Lands.”...
