Eco-Innovation Articles From Around the World
The Black Inmate Commissary Fund
About BICF The Black Inmate Commissary Fund (BICF) is built upon the foundation of abolition of the current carceral state, which disproportionately affects Black communities. BICF’s mission is to divest from the current carceral state by reinvesting in the...
7 Reasons Why Arctic Sea Ice Matters
Source: mnn.com Published: December 12, 2018 Ice in the central Arctic Ocean has thinned by more than 60 percent since 1975. (Photo: Pablo Clemente-Colon/NOAA) The vanishing veneer of frozen ocean isn't just vital for polar bears. By Russell McLendon The Arctic...
Fortresses of Mud: How to Protect the San Francisco Bay Area from Rising Seas
Source: nature.com Published: October 9, 2018 The race is on to build up wetlands barriers in one of North America’s largest estuaries. A view of a wetlands restoration project in Menlo Park, California. Credit: Michael Macor/San Francisco...
How to Get Carbon-Free in 10 Years
Published: October 9, 2018 Source: ecowatch.com By YES! Magazine By Brooke Jarvis and Doug Pibel This story from the YES! Media archives was originally published in the Spring 2008 issue of YES! Magazine. The Joneses are your average U.S. energy consumers. They...
12 Ways to Get Clean Air Without Chemicals
Source: mnn.com Published: October 8, 2018 We spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Here’s how to make sure you and your family are breathing the cleanest indoor air possible. (Photo: sukiyaki/Shutterstock) By...
The Sherlock Holmes Method for Raising Your Recycling Savvy
Source: earth911.com Published: October 5, 2018 By Daniel Dern I try to work recycling into my daily routine, but sometimes, the answer to “what do I do with this?” is less than obvious and some sleuthing is required. Like today’s detectives, those of us pursuing...
The Race to Reinvent Cement
Source: anthropocenemagazine.org Published: October 4, 2018 What if we could transform the material that built the modern world from a climate wrecker into a carbon sponge? By Akshat Rathi Fast-forward Earth about a million years. Humanity has come and...
Virgin Atlantic Completes First Commercial Flight on Recycled Waste Gas
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 4, 2018 Boeing Airplanes / Twitter By Lorraine Chow Virgin Atlantic has successfully flown and landed a commercial flight using aviation fuel partly made of waste carbon gas from a steel mill. The Boeing 747 took off from...
This Scarf Protects Against Air Pollution, Allergens and Viral Infections
Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 1, 2018 Perry Miller Air pollution is a major problem around the world, but one company is helping people stay safe no matter where they live. Bioscarf has created a stylish accessory that doubles as a safety mask for people...
Scottish Researchers Find Way to Target Gold in E-scrap
Source: recyclinginternational.com Published: October 3, 2018 By Kirstin Linnenkoper Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are developing a new compound to extract gold from used electronics. Around 7% of the world’s gold is inside e-scrap, of which less...
This New Coating Could Help Keep Buildings Cool
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: September 27, 2018 The porous polymer uses tiny air holes to reflect all wavelengths of sunlight, cooling buildings far better than white paint The coating, if used on enough buildings at once, could also help deal with so-called...
CONFERENCE – Climate Solutions Speaker Series GCAS – 2018
We are getting started on the next phases of our project, the Climate Solutions Speaker Series where we are providing three different sessions/seminars dedicated to implementing climate solutions at the Presidio; those projects that are ongoing now, those that...
Kenyan Startup Uses the Sun to Turn Human Waste into Cooking Fuel
Source: spectrum.ieee.org Published: November 23, 2016 By Andrew Silver Sanivation’s poop-based fuel briquettes finish cooling and drying on racks. Photo: Sanivation In August 2015—after a couple of years of testing—a company in Kenya began commercially...
20 Facts About Our Plastic-Packed Planet and 9 Ways to Help
Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 15, 2017 Plastic debris collected by NOAA staff and volunteers on the Midway Atoll in the Pacific ocean. Holly Richards / USFWS / Flickr David Leestma Plastic is moldable, durable, and its versatility means it’s everywhere...
Lush Wants to Make Animal Testing Irrelevant
Source: treehugger.com Published: November 13, 2017 © Lush Prize By Katherine Martinko This formidable soap company uses its annual Lush Prize to reward scientists working to replace animals in product safety testing. Lush is no ordinary cosmetics company. Not only...
How to Set Up a Public Electric Vehicle Charging Station, The Fast Charging Edition
Source: treehugger.com Published: November 14, 2017 © The Alliance Center/Rebecca Ann Photography By Sami Grover As electric vehicle use spreads, demand for more—and faster—charging stations will grow too. So far, when businesses have looked at installing electric...
What Is Carbon Capture and Storage, and Why Do We Need It?
Source: wvpublic.org Published Date: November 10, 2017 By Glynis Board A bipartisan group in Congress, including several Ohio Valley lawmakers, is pushing for more federal support for poorly understood technology known as carbon capture and storage. The lawmakers and...
The Seven Megatrends That Could Beat Global Warming: ‘There Is Reason for Hope’
Source: theguardian.com Published: November 8, 2017 A wind farm off the coast of Sussex. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images Damian Carrington Until recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change – floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations – seemed to be...
How Regenerative Food and Farming Can Reverse Rural Poverty and Forced Migration in the Americas
Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 6, 2017 Ronnie Cummins One of the most politically charged debates today, especially in the U.S. and Europe, is the so-called "immigration crisis." There are approximately 250 million (3 percent of the world's 7.6 billion...
Solar ‘Smart’ Greenhouses Produce Both Clean Electricity & Food Crops
Source: treehugger.com Published: November 6, 2017 © UC Santa Cruz By Derek Markham A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis...
Can Airplanes Be Recycled?
Source: earth911.com Published: November 3, 2017 Brian Brassaw As a kid, I remember seeing striking pictures of massive jets, tiny turbo props and other aircraft seemingly abandoned in the arid desert. Across the southwestern United States, there are seven major...
Revelator Reads: 6 Thrilling New Environmental Books for November
Source: therevelator.org Published: November 3, 2017 By John R. Platt The nights are getting shorter, the days are getting cooler, and the bookstores are stocking up on great new titles. Here are six new environmentally themed books coming our way this November,...
Solar XL – A Wave of Renewable Energy Resistance
Source: youtube.com Published: November 3, 2017 This 8-minute film tells the story of the Solar XL campaign, from where we started to where we’re going. It takes you to the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota where the pipeline would run half a mile...
Mini Wastewater Treatment Plant Produces Energy, Clean Water and Fertilizer
Source: treehugger.com Published: November 1, 2017 © University of South Florida By Megan Treacy Researchers at the University of South Florida College of Engineering have developed a new technology that will provide developing areas with a source of clean energy,...
Land Use Can Achieve 30% of Carbon Cuts by 2030
Source: climatenewsnetwork.net Published: November 1, 2017 Less than ideal: Land in Sumatra converted for oil palm cultivation. Image: Hayden (Oil Palm Concession) via Wikimedia Commons By Tim Radford Rethinking land use – the way we exploit, manage and neglect...
‘Breathtakingly Audacious’ Project Aims to Plant 73 Million Trees in Amazon
Source: mnn.com Published: November 1, 2017 Photo: Bailey Evans/Conservation International An ambitious plan by Conservation International could mean an impressive 73 million new trees will be planted over the next six years in the Brazilian region of the Amazon....
Five Questions You Should Have About Evaporation as a Renewable Energy Source
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: October 31, 2017 What’s the big deal with evaporation-driven engines? Water-strapped cities with growing populations and energy needs could benefit the most. Greater Phoenix, for instance, is served by this reservoir and...
Artist Gives New Life to Flint’s Empty Water Bottles by Turning Them into Clothing
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 31, 2017 Flint, Michigan water distribution. U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr Lorraine Chow Flint, Michigan doesn’t just have a water problem—it has a water bottle problem. Ever since the 2014 lead...
Every Month Is Farm to School Month at This DC School
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 30, 2017 School Within School / Facebook Union of Concerned Scientists By Sarah Reinhardt It’s the end of October, which means National Farm to School Month is drawing to a close. But that doesn’t matter to the students at...
The Fascinating Ways Museums Prepare for Catastrophic Weather
Source: motherjones.com Published: October 28, 2017 With priceless, irreplaceable treasures, they have the most to lose. Mark Lennihan/AP Eleanor Cummins This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate...
My High School Throws Out a Stupid Amount of Food. What Can I Do?
Source: grist.org Published: October 26, 2017 Grist / Image Source / Getty Images By Eve Andrews The questions that land in the Ask Umbra inbox are, by turns, incredibly vague, hyper-specific, heartily baffling, and genuinely touching. (Send more of them!) But there...
Anthony Bourdain Tackles Food Waste in New Documentary
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 26, 2017 Food Tank By Eva Perroni A new documentary from chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, WASTED! The Story of Food Waste explores both the problem of food waste in the U.S. and possible solutions from around...
This ‘Bio Plastic’ Is 100% Compostable and Poised to Change the World
Source: uproxx.com Published: October 26, 2017 Steve Bramucci Click here to watch “Is This The Solution To Plastic Waste Pollution?”: https://youtu.be/o_STBEU7ykI We can’t lie to ourselves anymore. Plastic is oil. It doesn’t biodegrade (instead it photodegrades,...
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...
Solar-Powered Noe Hill Smarthome is an Eco-Friendly Dream in San Francisco
Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 19, 2017 Written by Lidija Grozdanic The LEED Platinum-certified Noe Hill Smart Ecohome marries state-of-the-art green technology and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle that urban dwellers dream about. The house, designed...
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 announcements...
Butterfly Wings Inspire A Better Way to Absorb Light in Solar Panels
Source: theverge.com Published: October 19, 2017 By Angela Chen The wings of a butterfly have inspired a new type of solar cell that can harvest light twice as efficiently as before and could one day improve our solar panels. Scientists from KIT and Caltech...
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...
Greening the Earth Could Fight Climate Change as Efficiently as Cutting Fossil Fuels
Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 18, 2017 By Greg Beach Planting trees, revitalizing soil, and other natural environmental actions could prove as effective in fighting climate change as ceasing all oil use across the planet, according to new study...
Scientists Have Created a Concrete Roof That Generates Solar Power
Source: futurism.com Published: October 18, 2017 "Eventually, it is expected to generate more energy than it consumes." Brad Jones Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed a new form of ultra-thin, curved...
Regreening the Planet Could Cut as Much Carbon as Halting Oil Use – Report
Source: theguardian.com Published: October 17, 2017 Natural solutions such as tree planting, protecting peatlands and better land management could account for 37% of all cuts needed by 2030, says study Planting trees is one of the best ways to harness the power of...
Arup Proposes Using Food Waste as Building Materials
Source: archinect.com Published: October 17, 2017 The company argues that organic waste would ameliorate rising levels of waste and shortfalls of raw material, as well as providing industry with cheap, low carbon materials. — Global Construction Review By Mackenzie...
Huge Battery in the UK Holds the Energy Equivalent of 500K Smartphone Batteries
Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 16, 2017 Written by Lacy Cooke A large new battery storage project could help the United Kingdom’s grid handle power from more renewable sources. The 10 megawatt (MW) lithium-ion battery, on the...
Organic Food and Farm-to-Table Pioneer Alice Waters Is Creating a Revolution in School Lunches
Source: alternet.org Published: October 14, 2017 Written by Don Hazen / AlterNet When I spoke with Alice Waters, we didn’t focus on her famed restaurant, Chez Panisse, or her profound impact on the way we eat today, starting with the concept of farm to table....
How to Start a Regenerative Agriculture Movement in Your Community
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 13, 2017 Regeneration International Organic Consumers Association By Regeneration International The most important, although as of yet little known, new paradigm shift and set of practices in the world today is regenerative...
Construction Prototype for Ultra-Thin Concrete Roof
Source: ethz.ch Published: October 12, 2017 Researchers from ETH Zurich have built a prototype of an ultra-thin, curved concrete roof using innovative digital design and fabrication methods. The tested novel formwork system will be used in an actual construction...
New Super Concrete Makes Buildings Strong Enough to Withstand Magnitude 9 Earthquakes
Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 12, 2017 Written by Amanda Froelich Recent natural disasters such as hurricanes in the Caribbean and earthquakes in Mexico have laid bare the need for more resilient buildings. Fortunately, researchers...
The First ‘Negative Emissions’ Carbon-Capture Plant Is Up and Running
Source: grist.org Published: October 12, 2017 Arctic-Images / Getty Images Amelia Urry The first ‘negative emissions’ carbon-capture plant is up and running. On Wednesday, Iceland flipped the switch on the first project that will remove more CO2 than it produces. The...
Report Identifies 6 Applications for Organic Waste in Construction
Source:wastedive.com Published: October 12, 2017 Credit: Pixabay; Ben_Kerckx Cody Boteler Dive Brief: The consulting firm Arup released a report on Oct. 11 detailing how organic waste could be used in construction projects to further “close the loop”...
How Chicken Feathers Could Warm Our Homes
Source: bbc.com Published: October 10, 2017 One of the world’s most under-exploited waste products – the feathers from poultry farms – is finding a clever new use inside buildings. By Stephen Dowling Where there are people, there are chickens. Pretty much every...
Stanford Sodium-Based Battery Could Be More Cost-Effective Than Lithium
Source: news.stanford.edu Published: October 9, 2017 Industrial forecasts predict an insatiable need for battery farms to store renewable energy like solar and wind. Lithium ion batteries may remain tops for sheer performance, but when cost-per-storage is factored in,...
When Indigenous People Control Their Own Land, It Protects Us All from Carbon Emissions
Source: fastcompany.com Published: October 3, 2017 [Photo: Tenure Facility] A new center is using mapping and legal services to help establish that indigenous people are rightful owners of rainforests around the world, in turn protecting those forests so that...
Flower-Like Wave Energy Turbines Could Power the Coasts of Japan
Source: treehugger.com Published: September 28, 2017 © OIST By Megan Treacy Along Japan’s coasts are structures called tetrapods. These pyramid-shaped concrete wave breakers serve to reduce the strength of crashing waves to prevent erosion in key spots along the...
How Two Brothers Convinced the Indonesian Government to Clean Up the World’s Most Polluted River
Source: ecowatch.com Published: September 23, 2017 Make A Change World By Gary Bencheghib and Sam Bencheghib On August 14, we set out to kayak down the world’s most polluted river, the Citarum River located in Indonesia, to document and raise awareness about the...
Innovative Ways Companies Are Re-Purposing Food Waste
Source: food52.com Published: September 22, 2017 By: Lyna Vuong We love to brainstorm ways to cook with our food scraps, and this got us thinking about large-scale food producers and retailers, and how companies are addressing the issue of food waste. As...
Clean Cook Stoves Project
Source: gcghana.org Published: May 19, 2017 According to the World Bank, indoor pollution from coal, dung and wood-burning stoves as well as fire pits kills nearly two million people each year – including half of all children under the age of five who die from...
This Artistic Air Conditioner Can Cool A House Without Using Any Electricity at All
Source: greenmatters.com Published: September 14, 2017 Source: Ant Studio By Aimee Lutkin An architecture firm called Ant Studio has partnered with company DEKI Electronics to create a cooling system that is electricity free. The installation is built into DEKI’s...
Brilliant Zero-Energy Air Conditioner in India Is Beautiful and Functional
Source: inhabitat.com Published: September 14, 2017 Innovative cooling installation in New Delhi Written by Lucy Wang New Delhi-based Ant Studio made a zero-electricity air conditioner to combat the brutally hot summers in India’s capital. Built for a DEKI...
Yakhchāls – Ancient Structures Used to Make and Preserve Ice in The Deserts of Persia
Source: atlasobscura.com Published: September 12, 2017 Yakhchāl in Yazd, Iran PASTAITAKEN/CC BY SA 3.0 Added ByAaronNetsky Meybod, Iran - Though they look like giant clay beehives, these structures in the deserts of Persia were used to make something much more...
How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste—and Hunger
Source: yesmagazine.org Published: September 12, 2017 Food items redistributed by The Free Store include salads, sandwiches, pies, rice meals, and other pastries. All photos by Benjamin Johnson. Each weeknight, The Free Store redistributes up to 1,500 surplus...
Dirty Undies Help American Researchers to Test Tennessee Soil
Source: abc.net.au Published: September 6, 2017 The underwear has been buried in different soils for 30 days and shows the different rates of degeneration. (Supplied: Coffee County Soil Conservation District) ABC Rural / By Amy McCosker Undies, jocks, drawers…...
Australian Firm Unveils Plan to Convert Carbon Emissions Into ‘Green’ Concrete
Source: theguardian.com Published: August 24, 2017 Mineral Carbonation International hopes to be producing 20,000 to 50,000 tonnes of the bonded material for building companies by 2020. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Helen Davidson An Australian...
Tesla’s ‘Long-Haul’ Electric Truck Aims For 200 To 300 Miles on A Charge
Source: reuters.com Published: August 24, 2017 Marc Vartabedian Additional reporting by Alexandria Sage and Eric Johnson; Editing by Peter Henderson and Marla Dickerson Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) next month plans to unveil an electric big-rig truck with a working range of 200...
Los Angeles Is Painting the Streets White, And There’s A Good Reason Why
Source: demilked.com Published: August 23, 2017 Andrius While some still try to deny that our climate is changing, others have to deal with it already. The residents of Los Angeles are among them, and now they’re looking for some ‘outside the box’ ideas to fight...
DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes
Source: motherboard.vice.com Published Date: August 22, 2017 By Louise Matsakis In May of 2015, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s Powerwall. The battery allows homeowners to store electricity, either from the grid or solar panels. The tech was alluring to...
High-Tech Umbrella Follows the Sun to Give You Shade
Source: curbed.com Published Date: August 22, 2017 It comes with Bluetooth speakers, naturally Courtesy of ShadeCraft Sunflower By Megan Barber Home-tech aficionados who already have robotic dog toys, smart salt shakers, and wireless turntables, here’s...
Orange Is the New Green: How Orange Peels Revived A Costa Rican Forest
Source: princeton.edu Published: August 22, 2017 A research team led by Princeton University surveyed a 3-hectare area that had been covered in orange peels in the 1990s. They found a 176 percent increase in aboveground biomass — or the wood in the trees,...
Farmland Can Sequester Carbon from the Atmosphere
Source: voanews.com Published: August 21, 2017 Truck being loaded with compost at the Stemple Creek Ranch in Tomales, California, which is participating in a decade-long trial carbon farming program. By Jan Sluizer SAN FRANCISCO--California rancher John Wick says the...
Montreal Supermarket Opens Huge Organic Rooftop Garden
Source: treehugger.com Published: August 18, 2017 © Tact Conseil (used with permission) — Francis, Richard, and Daniel Duchemin, storeowners, sit in their new rooftop garden By Katherine Martinko Talk about slashing food miles; ‘fresh from the roof’ is as local as it...
Resort Reduces Rubbish Rates with Food Digesters
Source: environmentalleader.com Published: August 18, 2017 By Jennifer Nastu Two anaerobic food digesters will reduce trash bills for the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, PA. By using the digesters to break down organic trash, the casino will reduce its...
Glass Building Blocks Generate Their Own Solar Energy
Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 17, 2017 Written by Tafline Laylin There’s a new building block in town, and it generates its own clean energy. Researchers from Exeter University developed new glass blocks that are embedded with small solar cells. Not only do...
South Korea to Build $10bln Integrated Agricultural City in Egypt
Source: arabfinance.com Published: August 16, 2017 Amwal Alghad Cairo: Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed Tuesday a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched...
Bug Burgers? Switzerland Says Insects Are What’s for Dinner
Source: usatoday.com Published: August 16, 2017 Helena Bachmann When you think of Swiss food, chocolate and cheese quickly come to mind. But now a novel food is creating a buzz in this Alpine nation. Burgers and meatballs made from insects will hit grocery...
Poop-to-Energy Project Provides Clean Cooking Fuel in Kenya
Source: triplepundit.com Published: August 16, 2017 These charcoal briquettes are made from human poop Words by Leon Kaye Sanitation workers, public health officials and entrepreneurs are working together in Kenya to tackle two huge challenges: deal with human waste...
Eco-Friendly Wooden Motorcycle Uses Algae For Fuel
Source:designboom.com Published: August 15, 2017 Beatrice Murray-Nag motorcycles get a lot of bad press for their environmental footprint. that’s why, when dutch designer ritsert mans has teamed up with scientist peter mooij, the duo wanted to create a ride...
These Are America’s 10 Most Sustainable Cities
Source: mnn.com Published: August 15, 2017 By Noel Kirkpatrick A new report on the most sustainable metropolitan areas in the U.S. shows that we still have a long way to go. In September 2015, leaders from around the world adopted Agenda 2030. This document...
Inspiring Urban Farm Teaches Kids How to Grow Their Own Organic Food
Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 14, 2017 Written by Lucy Wang A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but an amazing urban farm flourishes on Governors Island. An inspiring GrowNYC initiative is teaching inner city kids how to plant, water, harvest, and...
To Restore Our Soils, Feed the Microbes
Source: salon.com Published Date: August 12, 2017 (cjp via iStock) Matthew Wallenstein This article was originally published on The Conversation. Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer. What...
Zero Waste Daniel Turns Clothing Scraps into Fashion
Source: youtube.com Published: August 12, 2017 This clothing line turns fabric scraps into unique pieces of clothing. Daniel Silverstein founded ‘Zero Waste Daniel’, aka ‘ZWD’, to close the gap on the fashion industry’s waste problem – here’s Daniel’s...
Generating Green Energy in a Chilean Desert
Source: nytimes.com Published Date: August 12, 2017 By ERNESTO LONDOÑO, VEDA SHASTRI and KAITLYN MULLIN Click on source above for video. Chile is advancing in its goals for reliance on renewable energy, with South America’s first geothermal plant and a constellation...
Parked Electric Cars Earn Cash While Feeding the Power Grid
Source: ecowatch.com Published: August 11, 2017 Lorraine Chow In Europe, electric vehicles are not just a low-emission way of getting from A to B, they are also being built as mobile generators. Newly designed Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) models can both...
Innovations in Desert and Drylands Farming
Source: fao.org Published: August 11, 2017 Photo credit: © FAO/Giulio Napolitano The global demand for food, water and energy is expected to increase by about 40 to 50 percent by 2030. This is driven in part by an expanding population, rapid urbanization, greater...
Researchers Create Flexible Battery That Can Run On Salt Water
Source: engadget.com Published: August 11, 2017 They could be powered by body fluids like sweat or tears in the future. Hoxton/Ryan Lees via Getty Images Mallory Locklear When it comes to making batteries for wearables or implantable medical devices,...
How San Francisco’s Mandatory Composting Laws Turn Food Waste into Profit
Source: usatoday.com Published: August 10, 2017 Jennifer McClellan SAN FRANCISCO — How do you throw away a cup of coffee in San Francisco? You take the lid off and put it in the recycle bin. The soiled cup goes in the compost bin. Nothing goes to a landfill. That’s...
Columbia Sportswear Expands Clothing Recycling Program
Source: recyclingtoday.com Published: August 10, 2017 Recycling Today Staff Columbia Sportswear, Portland, Oregon, has announced the roll out of its ReThreads clothing recycling program in more than 100 Columbia stores across the United States to...
Non-Profit is Turning Plastic Bottles into Boats to Help the Community
Source: onegreenplanet.org Published: August 10, 2017 Click here to watch “Cameroon's 1st made boat from "recycled plastic bottles waste" by Madiba&Nature.”: https://youtu.be/rRQaCaGGqVc Recycling and repurposing used plastic waste needs to be at the...
Famous Musicians Voice Their Support for Al Gore’s New Documentary ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’
Source: rollingstone.com Published: August 10, 2017 By Elias Leight Click here to watch “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017)- "Why I'm Inconvenient" - Paramount Pictures”: https://youtu.be/xW6ah5scm34 Paul McCartney, Bono, Pharrell Williams and many...
Solar Revolution Turns These Women into Powerful Entrepreneurs
Source: ecowatch.com Published: August 2, 2017 Empower Generation helps rural women affected by energy poverty to become solar entrepreneurs. Empower Generation Climate News Network By Paul Brown A solar revolution is transforming the lives of women in the remotest...
Mangroves: A Star Player in The Coastal Protection Game
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: August 9, 2017 An extensive blue-water mangrove is lined by red mangrove prop roots, Rhizophora mangle, reaching into the water at high tide. Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean. © Ethan Daniels They do it all: sequester...
Storing Clean Energy in Salt Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds
Source: grist.org Published: August 3, 2017 A Spanish solar thermal plant uses molten salt storage to run 24 hours a day. By Bobby Magill Using giant vats of molten salt and antifreeze under the codename “Malta,” Google’s parent company Alphabet is joining Tesla and...
Sri Lankan Tea Farmers Fight Deforestation and Climate Change
Source: rainforest-alliance.org Published: September 8, 2015 Since agriculture is the greatest driver of deforestation, farmers are critical allies in the fight to save standing forests. In Sri Lanka, which exports some of the world’s finest tea, only 28 percent of...
‘The New Farm’ Tells the Tale of Building A Successful Organic Farm
Source: treehugger.com Published: August 8, 2017 © The New Farm book By Katherine Martinko Rarely does one hear of farmers who can pay off debts in less than a decade, let alone make money without holding other jobs. This wonderful book proves it’s possible....
How Denver Bike Crews Are Rescuing Food from Landfills One Ride at a Time
Source: denverpost.com Published: August 8, 2017 Gabriel Scarlett, The Denver Post By Libby Rainey Growing movement fills the gaps in Denver’s food waste management using bikes It’s a steamy Friday morning, and Christi Turner is elbows-deep in compost. Armed with...
Scientists Unlock the Mystery Behind Roman Concrete’s Amazing Longevity
Source: mnn.com Published: July 10, 2017 Ancient marine structures like this breakwater off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, are helping scientists understand the remarkable longevity of Roman concrete. (Photo: J.P. Oleson) By Matt Hickman Bloodlust, bad haircuts and the...
How Midwestern Farmers Could Help Save the Gulf of Mexico
Source: motherjones.com Published: August 8, 2017 Pushart Tom Philpott If you pay state taxes in Maryland, you fund a program that gives farmers as much as $90 per acre—$22,500 annually for a typical corn operation—to plant a crop that’s not even intended for harvest....
Dutch Students Grow Their Own Biodegradable Car
Source: reuters.com Published: August 8, 2017 Nichola Groom (Reuters) - U.S. residential solar company Sunrun Inc on Monday reported second-quarter revenue and earnings per share that fell short of Wall Street estimates, sending its shares down nearly 10 percent in...
How 700 Kerala Villagers Waded Through A Dead River, Cleansed It And Brought It Back To Life In 70 Days
Source: hindustantimes.com Published: May 7, 2017 Ramesh Babu The villagers first removed weeds and then plastic that was lodged solidly in the river bed. The next step was to dredge the water of pollutants and other debris dumped over the years. The Kuttemperoor...
What Stuff Do We Throw Away That Takes Forever to Decay?
Source: alternet.org Published: August 7, 2017 Written by Robin Scher Reduce, reuse, recycle. Everyone has heard this call ad infinitum, but do we really take heed? Yes, sorting your trash is a good start, but that still only ticks one box. Maybe you’re a stellar...