Eco-Innovation Articles From Around the World
How Algae Can Help Sweden Eliminate Carbon Emissions
Source: ecowatch.com Published: June 25, 2017 Flickr / Michael Basial Global Citizen By Avery Friedman Algae is often considered a nuisance, but for Sweden, the rapidly growing sea plant is now an asset. As the Scandinavian country works to cut all of its greenhouse...
Germany’s Gorgeous Black Forest Named UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
Source: mnn.com Published: June 22, 2017 Photo: Baciu/Shutterstock UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme gives biosphere reserve status to locations that are great examples of balanced relationships between people and their environment, where economic development...
Costa Rica’s Savegre River Joins Network of Biosphere Reserves
Source: mnn.com Published: June 21, 2017 Photo: Tim Zurowski/Shutterstock Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization added 23 new sites to its World Network of Biospheres. These locations are intended to be “learning places for...
Your Sweat May Soon Power Your Smartphone
Source: financialexpress.com Published: June 23, 2017 By: PTI Scientists have created a skin patch that can power a radio for two days using human sweat, and may eventually be used to charge mobile devices while people are out for a run. The bio fuel patch may also...
New Technology Quickly Turns Food Waste into Fuel
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 22, 2017 CC BY 2.0 Nick Saltmarsh By Megan Treacy A new technique for turning food waste into a source of energy uses a two step process that extracts all of the energy from the waste and does so quickly. Researchers at Cornell...
Zero Waste at Bates
Source: bates.edu Published: June 22, 2017 Just as Bates has a goal of becoming carbon neutral, we also have a goal of moving towards becoming a Zero Waste campus. If this sounds impossible, consider this: our Dining Service has already achieved an over 80% diversion...
Waste Management
Source: newschool.edu Published: June 22, 2017 Waste Management Main Photo The New School generates around two and a half million pounds of waste each year. Forty-five percent of that waste is directly diverted from a landfill through recycling and composting. Our...
These Companies Are Figuring Out How to Reduce the Toxins in Electronics
Source: ensia.com Published: January 11, 2016 As global consumption of cellphones and other devices soars, industry searches for ways to decrease the threat of chemical components to people and the environment. Photo © iStockphoto.com/FotografiaBasica Writer Rachel...
Steering Trash Down the Road Less Traveled
Source: umaine.edu Published: June 22, 2017 UMaine researchers and state stakeholders work towards a cleaner waste stream By JOE RANKIN It’s only human to make trash. Even early hunter-gathers had a waste stream. Of course, back then most of it was biodegradable and,...
Our Mission to Reduce Food Waste
Source: blog.generalmills.com Published: November 21, 2016 By Jerry Lynch You may have noticed that General Mills has been talking a lot about food waste lately. As a global food company, it’s imperative to take thoughtful action to combat food waste and we are...
London Could Be Getting Its First Ultra-Green, Tidal-Powered School
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 16, 2017 By Nicole Jewell London-based Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture just unveiled plans for what could become London’s greenest building – a tidal powered school situated on the banks of the Thames River. The five-story...
How a ‘Spider’ Could Keep an Airship Airworthy
Source: bbc.com Published: August 1, 2016 BBC Click's Marc Cieslak reports. A device which can help repair holes in airships has been developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. Known as a “spider”, one half the device is located on the outside of the airship while...
Giant Helium-Filled Airship Airlander Takes Off for First Time
Source: phys.org Published: August 17, 2016 The Airlander 10 in flight, after taking off from Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire, England, Wednesday Aug. 17, 2016. A blimp-shaped airship billed as the world's largest aircraft has taken off for the first time, days...
Environmental Education: Key to Solving Our Waste Problem
Source: gndr.org Published: June 22, 2017 Six African young women standing while reading a UNEP leaflet on the hands of one of them Olumide Idowu Olumide IDOWU, Co-Founder of Climate Wednesday and UNISDR Youth Champion for Africa advocates for sustainable education...
Diébédo Francis Kéré’s rainwater-harvesting 2017 Serpentine Pavilion unveiled in London today
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 21, 2017 Written by Lacy Cooke Today marks the official debut of Diébédo Francis Kéré’s spectacular rainwater-harvesting Serpentine Pavilion. The 2017 pavilion was unveiled on a perfectly sunny day – but when it rains the roof...
Refrigeration That Won’t Heat Up the Planet
Source: greenpeace.org Published: July 1, 2016 A group of greenhouse gases you’ve probably never heard of contributes much more than its share to climate change. Known as F-gases, these chemicals are used to cool drinks, food, cars, supermarkets and office buildings....
Reducing Waste at Record-Setting Rates
Source: cta.tech Published: September 13, 2016 We are purchasing and enjoying technology at unprecedented levels, and emerging trends such as the Internet of Things and wearables likely mean more tech devices will soon be entering our homes. But what happens once...
Plastic’s Place in the Waste Stream
Source: blog.laddawn.com Published: July 26, 2016 by Owen Richardson A common misconception is that plastics are the number one component of landfills and the fastest growing segment. That’s not true. Because modern packaging cannot be eliminated from the shipment and...
New Solar Paint Could Offer Endless Supply of Clean Energy
Source: fusion.net Published: June 21, 2017 Researchers at RMIT University in Australia have developed a solar paint that could offer endless supplies of clean energy. The paint captures water vapor from the surrounding air, and then uses energy provided by the...
How AB InBev Beat its Eco-Cooler Goal Two Years Early
Source: environmentalleader.com Published: May 13, 2016 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Anheuser-Busch InBev beat its 2017 eco-cooler goal two years early, according to the company’s most recent sustainability report. The achievement moved AB InBev from its 2012 baseline...
Climate-Friendly Freezers
Source: unilever.com Published: June 21, 2017 We are continuing our efforts to roll out energy-efficient cabinets that use climate-friendly hydrocarbon refrigerants. Why are climate friendly freezers important? Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants are greenhouse gases...
British Forest Pumped Full of CO2 To Test Tree Absorption
Source: Unknown Published: June 21, 2017 These huge arrays are pumping out carbon dioxide – the main man-made greenhouse gas. But this isn’t an industrial plant; it’s a science experiment. The ten year study wants to find out what effect rising CO2 has on a mature...
3 Important Waste Management Services That Help Protect Our Environment
Source: nationalwastemgmt.com Published: June 21, 2017 Waste management specialists are always looking for ways to enhance their eco-friendliness, and the best companies will offer a wide array of services to ensure that all waste is properly disposed. These...
Wastewater Treatment: An Undervalued Driver of Sustainability
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: March 27, 2017 Wastewater is no longer waste as innovation and holistic thinking enables water reuse and resource recovery. Jens-Peter Saul, Contributor CEO This piece is co-written by Janet Egli, Global Service Line Leader,...
The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas
Source: nytimes.com Published: June 15, 2017 In the waterlogged Netherlands, climate change is considered neither a hypothetical nor a drag on the economy. Instead, it’s an opportunity. By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Photographs by JOSH HANER JUNE 15, 2017 ROTTERDAM, the...
Oakland Unified School District Switches to Local and Organic Meals, Cuts Carbon Footprint — and Saves Money
Source: truth-out.org Published: June 13, 2017 Melissa Hellmann, YES! Magazine When her eldest son was in elementary school in the Oakland Unified School District, Ruth Woodruff became alarmed by the meals he was being served at school. A lot of it was frozen,...
Norway’s Statkraft to Make Biofuel from Wood Chips and Other Waste
Source: reuters.com Published: June 20, 2017 Geert De Clercq ESTORIL, Portugal (Reuters) - Norwegian utility Statkraft has found a way to produce biofuel from wood chippings and other solid organic waste, which it says replicates in minutes a process that made crude...
Tips for Working with Eco-Friendly Refrigerants
Source: refrigerationschool.com Published: September 6, 2016 By Oanh Nguyen Since worries about the depletion of the ozone layer began in the 1980s, refrigerants with high ozone depletion potential (ODP) – chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons...
This 81-Year-Old Retired Civil Engineer From Ladakh Has Built 12 Artificial Glaciers To Fight Global Warming
Source: yourstory.com Published: October 27, 2016 81-year-old Chewang Norphel was born to a middle-class family in Leh, Ladakh. After completing a diploma course in civil engineering from Lucknow, Chewang worked for the rural development department of Jammu and...
The Biggest, Strangest ‘Batteries’
Source: nytimes.com Published: June 3, 2017 What if you need a battery? A really big one — big enough to run a city? By Diane Cardwell and Andrew Roberts It’s a question that inventors have been tackling for decades. No one wants the fridge, or the hospital, going on...
Greening Industry, Saving Water in North Africa
Source: makingitmagazine.net Published: February 17, 2016 Igor Volodin introduces a programme demonstrating the benefits of adopting best available techniques, cleaner production technology, and appropriate environmental management and accounting practices Green...
Water for Agriculture: Producing More with Less
Source: spore.cta.int Published: June 9, 2016 By Anne Perrin It is common knowledge that a 60% increase in food production will be necessary to feed the world in 2050, and water is essential for agricultural production if it is going to meet rising food needs. In the...
Using Paper Saves Trees – a South African Perspective
Source: thepaperstory.co.za Published: June 7, 2017 We can all agree that “digital is not going away” – it is very much a part of our world. I’m using it to publish this post. But even in this multimedia, multiplatform world, paper is not going away either. And that’s...
Recycled Ocean Plastic Could Become the Building Block of the Future
Source: curbed.com Published: August 1, 2016 By Barbara Eldredge More than 300 million tons of plastic trash is generated every year, but less than 8 percent of that waste is recycled. In fact, as much as 12 million tons ends up in the ocean. A new U.S.-based startup,...
How New Generation Rotary Evaporators Work
Source: ecodyst.com Published: July 16, 2016 Problem: Rotary evaporators (“rotavaps”) have for decades been staples in labs and industries performing chemistry, including labs in the chemical, environmental, materials, life science, and forensics industries. Key...
Greening Your Refrigerants — Saving the Ozone Layer and Saving Money
Source: fmlink.com Published: June 7, 2017 Mike Opitz PE, LEED APCertification Manager, LEED for Existing BuildingsU.S. Green Building Council Chemical refrigerants are the heart of a large majority of building HVAC and refrigeration equipment. These manufactured...
ByFusion Turns All Types of Ocean Plastic into Eco-Friendly Construction Blocks
Source: sustainablebrands.com Published: October 1, 2016 A new startup called ByFusion created an eco-friendly way to repurpose collected ocean plastic permanently, in the form of construction blocks called RePlast. Tom Idle “It’s all about timing,” says Gregor...
2016 Innovative Refrigerant Systems
Source: energystar.gov Published: June 7, 2017 The ENERGY STAR® Emerging Technology Award (ETA) is given to innovative technologies that meet rigorous performance criteria to reduce energy use and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Environmental Protection...
5 Ways We Can Decrease Our Paper Consumption and Save Our Planet
Source: ict-pulse.com Published: April 20, 2016 Although we are supposedly living more digital lives, paper consumption globally has been increasing. Here are five ways we use less paper in our work lives. Posted by Michele Marius In today’s society, many of us pride...
Google’s London HQ Boasts A Rooftop Garden for The Ages
Source: mnn.com Published: June 2, 2017 Plans for Google's new London headquarters include a ridiculously lush rooftop garden, drawing comparisons to London's failed Garden Bridge project. (Rendering: Google) By Matt Hickman Remember that enchanting, ridiculously lush...
Two Years of CO2 Saving with Bioplastic Packaging
Source: globalcompostproject.org Published: September, 2016 Exactly two years ago, in the Autumn 2014, Officina naturae changed direction in making an effort to increase its sustainable footprint. In fact, since that October, the packaging of household cleaners –...
These 5 Technologies Are Set to Transform the Way We Consume Everyday Products
Source: weforum.org Published: October 27, 2016 From hamburgers to plastic, new technologies are reinventing the products we consume on a daily basis. Gill Cassar Take a look around you. Many of the products you see were made using industrial processes that are at...
How Small Cities Can Have a Big Impact in the Fight Against Climate Change
Source: medium.com Published: August 10, 2016 Emily Reichert Co-authored by Dr. Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs; and Oliver Sellers-Garcia, Director of Sustainability and Environment, City of Somerville As told by Dr. Reichert at the 16th edition of Les...
Ford and Jose Cuervo Partner to Make Bioplastic from Agave
Source: triplepundit.com Published: July 26, 2016 Image credit: Ford Gina-Marie Cheeseman Why would an American car company and a Mexican tequila company ever team up? In the case of Ford Motor Co. and Jose Cuervo: to make bioplastics from an agave byproduct. Ford...
Can We Ever Build A Healthy City?
Source: jllrealviews.com Published: April 20, 2016 For the increasing population of city dwellers worldwide, leading a healthy lifestyle isn’t just about eating well and doing regular exercise – the infrastructure and environmental factors of the city itself also play...
California’s Grand Plan to Fight Climate Change on the Farm
Source: civileats.com Published: February 2, 2016 California lawmakers move toward paying farmers to adopt climate-smart practices. BY ARIANA REGUZZONI | Agroecology, Climate While El Niño rains have brought some relief to drought-stricken California, Governor Jerry...
Bioplastic Cones Improve Efficiency of Thailand’s Local Rubber Agriculture
Source: european-bioplastics.org Published: September 28, 2016 Corbion, Global Bio-Polymers, and Maxrich announced their collaboration on the development of a biodegradable root growth container to improve the agricultural efficiency and environmental performance of...
100% Biodegradable Potato Plastics
Source: labiotech.eu Published: June 2, 2017 Biofuels, bioplastics, Moss-based drugs and algae for food. All of these are pioneering areas of GreenTech progress. So what are the major developments in this forward-thinking field? 1. 100% Biodegradable Potato Plastics...
World’s First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Plant Goes Live in Zurich
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 31, 2017 by Lacy Cooke Carbon capture is essential to the fight against climate change and keeping temperatures below a two-degree-Celsius increase, according to Swiss-based Climeworks. For a few years now they’ve been working on...
Student-Designed Car Could Cross Almost the Entire U.S. On One Gallon of Gas
Source: auto.howstuffworks.com Published: May 23, 2017 The prototype car that engineering students from Quebec’s Universite Laval designed could pretty much cross the U.S. on a single tank of gas. Except it wouldn’t look like any other cars on the road. CSA...
Scientists Explore Environmental Advantages of Horticultural Bioplastics
Source: ecodaily.org Published: November 26, 2016 New bioplastic materials may enable gardeners to tend their plants more sustainably and could even help plants “self-fertilize” and grow healthier roots, according to research conducted by Iowa State University...
How Crowded Barcelona Plans to Shoehorn In 108 Acres of New Parks
Source: mnn.com Published: June 1, 2017 Park Guell in Barcelona is one of the city’s top tourist attractions, and offers a bit of perspective on how tightly packed this ancient-and-yet-totally-modern city really is. (Photo: Luciano Mortula – LGM/Shutterstock) There...
Compact and Connected Cities Are Better for People and The Environment
Source: voices.nationalgeographic.com Published: March 1, 2016 The argument has been proven, the data is clear: compact and connected cities are better for people and the environment. Importantly, compact and connected cities are also good for the economy. According...
Vivobarefoot Will Launch an Amphibious Shoe Made With Algae-Based Foam This Summer
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 1, 2017 CC BY 2.0 F. Lamiot By Derek Markham The company that makes “shoes for people who don’t want to wear them” is introducing a new model of adventure shoe constructed with EVA foam made from algae biomass. As far as modern...
5 Reasons America Needs Walkable Neighborhoods
Source: strongtowns.org Published: February 23, 2016 Photo courtesy of NACTO Rachel Quednau The RPA report we’re covering this week highlights the need for more housing in walkable neighborhoods. Now, walkability isn’t just something that we believe is “good for you”...
This New Material Can Turn Sunlight, Heat, And Movement into Electricity – All at Once
Source: sciencealert.com Published: February 10, 2017 Scientists have discovered that a certain type of mineral has the right properties to extract energy from multiple sources at the same time – turning solar, heat, and kinetic energy into electricity. The mineral is...
Packaging Food with Food to Reduce Waste
Source: nytimes.com Published: May 30, 2017 The design company Ecovative makes a variety of packaging materials using mycelium fungus. Credit: Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times By Stephanie Strom For the environmentally conscious eater, they are among the most...
147 Things You Can Compost And 9 Things You Can’t
Source: backyardboss.net Published: May 31, 2017 By Candace Osmond If you’ve got a backyard, you might have started your own compost heap. Composting is a great way to get rid of leftover food, plant material and other biodegradable items that would otherwise have to...
7 Ways to Keep Food Cool Without A Refrigerator
Source: inhabitat.com Published: April 23, 2016 By Lacy Cooke 1. MittiCool Refrigerator uses clay and evaporation The MittiCool was originally designed by potter Mansukhbhai Raghavbhai Prajapati for use by people in rural areas. This homey refrigerator is made...
Waste-to-Energy Machine Reveals Power of Trash
Source: army.mil Published: April 13, 2016 The Battalion-scale Waste to Energy Conversion Green Energy Machine converts 3 tons of trash into 100 gross kilowatts of energy. (Photo Credit: Danielle Davis) By Danielle Davis FORT BENNING, Ga. — Fort Benning is helping the...
China’s Green Urban Planning Can Draw Lessons from Portland and Stockholm
Source: chinadialogue.net Published: February 2, 2016 Green urban development in western US and Sweden provides useful pointers for planners in China’s fast-growing megacities, writes Lili Pike Lili Pike Out of industrial dust and ashes, the lakeside Hammarby Sjöstad...
7 Examples of Sustainability of Sweden
Source: sweden.se Published: June 21, 2016 #1 District heating in Gothenburg Sweden’s shift from oil to district heating in the early 1990’s is perhaps the single most important factor in explaining the country’s reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, both in the...
How Radical Ideas Turned Curitiba Into Brazil’s ‘Green Capital’
Source: theguardian.com Published: May 6, 2016 Curitiba’s historic centre was saved by a move to sustainable urban planning. Photograph: Eduardo PA/Getty Images/Flickr RF David Adler As an architect and mayor, Jaime Lerner led the movement that transformed Curitiba...
How Does Public Transportation Help the Environment?
Source: science.howstuffworks.com Published: August 29, 2012 Does public transportation help or hurt the environment? John A Rizzo/GETTY By Jonathan Atteberry In January 2004, the citizens of Milan, Italy, were preparing for a strike that would shut down all public...
Green Beans – Why Pulses Are the Eco-Friendly Option for Feeding and Saving the World
Source: sheffield.ac.uk Published: August 17, 2016 by Caroline Wood and Wayne Martindale We all know the score: current trends predict there will be 9.7 billion mouths to feed by 2050. Producing enough food without using more land, exacerbating climate change or...
Are Hedges Better at Fighting Urban Air Pollution Than Trees?
Source: mnn.com Published: May 24, 2017 The British countryside is famed for its hedgerows. According to scientists, cities need more dense lines of shrubs in order to effectively combat automobile-borne air pollution. (Photo: Jenny Brown/flickr) By Matt Hickman Make...
How to Naturescape
Source: plantnative.org Published: May 24, 2017 Apologies for formatting errors due to docx importing. Curious about native plants? Interested in a beautiful, low-maintenance landscape? Concerned about health and water quality? Or did you just stumble on to this page...
How to Attract Bees and Other Native Pollinators with a Foraging Habitat
Source: motherearthnews.com Published: May 24, 2013 By The Xerces Society By designing a habitat with a diverse array of the right plants, planted in the right places, you can support and attract bees and other native pollinators. “Attracting Native Pollinators”...
Green & Safe Gardening: The Ultimate Guide to Clean Plant Care
Source: brighterblooms.com Published: May 24, 2017 Sprouting a green thumb have many health benefits for adults, and even makes a great choice to teach children as a hobby they can pursue on their own. Yet you need to be aware of some of the risks and dangers found in...
100+ Ways to Conserve Water
Source: wateruseitwisely.com Published: May 24, 2017 INDOOR TIPS KITCHEN #1 There are a number of ways to save water, and they all start with you. #2 When washing dishes by hand, don’t let the water run. Fill one basin with wash water and the other with rinse water....
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP – Inyenyeri Rwanda Clean Stoves – 2018
Matter of Trust has partnered with Inyenyeri, a fuel-utility company that provides clean cookstoves in Rwanda. Clean stove technology is an urgent environmental challenge. Every year, more than four million people around the world die of causes related to indoor air...
This Bicycle Will Clean Polluted Air While You Pedal
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: May 18, 2017 An image shows how Roosegaarde’s design would funnel smog in, and push out clean air. Rendering courtesy of Dan Roosegaarde For Architectural Digest, by Nick Mafi. Dubbed the Smog Free bicycle, the invention works by...
Inyenyeri Rwanda Clean Stove Partnership
Source: matteroftrust.org Published: May 19, 2017 Matter of Trust has partnered with Inyenyeri, a fuel-utility company that provides clean cookstoves in Rwanda. Clean stove technology is an urgent environmental challenge. Every year, more than four million people...
A Cooking Revolution: How Clean Energy and Cookstoves Are Saving Lives
Source: obamawhitehouse.archives.gov Published: June 7, 2016 By Chef José Andrés Cooking: it’s a simple act that has brought families around the world together for thousands and thousands of years. As a chef, I can think of few things more beautiful than that....
A Climate Change Solution Beneath Our Feet
Source: washingtonpost.com Published: May 17, 2017 Content from UC Davis There’s too much carbon in the atmosphere and not enough in the ground where it’s useful. Healthy soil can help flip the picture. When we think of climate change solutions, what typically comes...
Wetland Restoration Promises Benefits
Source: sustainablecitynetwork.com Published: December 31, 2009 By Patrick Lindsey TDEC Office of Sustainable Practices Sustainability CHAPEL HILL, Tenn. — A 65-acre agricultural field has been restored to its original wetland state in the rolling hills of Middle...
Wetland Restoration Efforts
Source: baytrail.org Published: May 18, 2017 Bair Island planting event (photo by Save the Bay) The Bay Area is prized for its beauty, and is one of America’s great estuaries. Over the years, urbanization and the transformation of open spaces to more intensive land...
Reforestation Efforts That Really Work
Source: healthinharmony.org Published: April 25, 2016 NOTE: Article link redirects to the source homepage As Indonesia’s forests vanish from logging and fires, the future of our planet continues to hang in the balance. Reforestation can go a long way to solve this...
How Clean Cookstoves Create Gender Equality
Source: globalcitizen.org Published: September 15, 2016 Alex Kamweru / UN Foundation From: Caterpillar Foundation This article is contributed by Michele Sullivan, Director of Corporate Social Innovation at Caterpillar and President of the Caterpillar Foundation, and...
A Before-And-After Snapshot Shows the Incredible Impact of Clean Cookstoves
Source: upworthy.com Published: September 23, 2016 Morgan Shoaff Cooking dinner usually results in, well, dinner. But for too many people, it can have a devastating side effect. For the 3 billion people in developing countries who cook their meals over an open fire,...
Turning Tomato Peels and Eggshells into Tires
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: March 15, 2017 Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a technology for incorporating food waste into rubber. (Kenneth Chamberlain, courtesy of Ohio State University) By Randy Rieland Scientists at Ohio State...
Tropical Trees Solution for Climate Change
Source: communitycarbontrees.org Published: May 17, 2017 Planting trees in any climate is beneficial because there are many benefits of planting trees. Yet, planting trees near the equator “cools” the planet more than trees planted in temperate latitudes. Scientists...
The Answer to India’s Energy Crisis Could Be Blowing in the Wind
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: October 26, 2016 Maanasa Mendu, of Mason, Ohio, presents HARVEST, her prototype renewable energy-gathering device, at the 2016 Young Scientist Challenge. (Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge) By Nathan Hurst The 2016...
Seeing the Wood for the Trees
Source: conservationbytes.com Published: July 11, 2016 From the towering kapoks of South America to the sprawling banyans of South Asia, from misty cloud forests to ice-covered pines, forests are some of the most diverse and important ecosystems on Earth. However, as...
Forget Tidal – the B.C. Advantage Is Wave Power
Source: biv.com Published: May 9, 2017 Wave-measuring buoys like this one were used in a new study to measure wave energy potential off the coast of Vancouver Island | Submitted By Nelson Bennett Anyone who has walked along the beaches near Tofino in the wintertime...
Dramatic Venice Sculpture Comes With A Big Climate Change Warning
Source: mashable.com Published: May 15, 2017 Venice is sinking. Image: halcyon gallery By Maria Gallucci Italy's famed city of Venice has grappled with flooding and encroaching waters since the Middle Ages. But as global warming speeds up sea level rise, the charming...
The Solar Cooker That Seeks Its Own Place in The Sun
Source: theguardian.com Published: January 5, 2017 The Water&Solar100 cooker, which has automatic sun tracking, and temperature and timing controls. Photograph: Wilfred Fritz Kate Hodal Solar cookers have been promoted as a safe alternative to boil water, cook...
30 Fascinating Facts About the Boreal Forest
Source: treehugger.com Published: May 12, 2011 NOTE: This article has been updated since its original posting to include more facts (from 12 to 30) CC BY 2.0. Wikimedia Commons By Jaymi Heimbuch Welcome to almost 30 percent of the world's forest cover. The boreal...
“Artificial Blowhole” Generates Electricity from Ocean Waves
Source: newatlas.com Published: May 12, 2017 New Atlas spoke to Dr. Tom Denniss, the CEO of Wave Swell Energy, about the company's new system designed to harvest electricity from ocean waves. Wave Swell Energy By Michael Irving Wind and solar power are becoming...
Trees Will Grow on The Balconies of Istanbul’s Honeycomb-Like Apartments
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 12, 2017 by Lucy Wang Istanbul is on track for a stunning new landmark that’ll bring rural living to the heart of the city. International architecture studio Eray Carbajo designed Urban Rural, a modular residential high-rise that...
The Latest Weapons Against Climate Change: The Beaver, The Oyster, Cold Water and More…
Source: sciencedaily.com Published: May 9, 2017 Source: Wildlife Conservation Society Summary: Beavers, high elevation streams, and oyster reefs are just three of the weapons in the fight against climate change discussed in 14 Solutions to Problems Climate Change...
Nonprofit Clones Giant Sequoias to Combat Climate Change
Source: nonprofitquarterly.org Published: July 20, 2016 Secuoyas gigantes, giant sequoias / Vicente Villamón Shafaq Hasan Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME) While state attorneys general may be trying to hold ExxonMobil accountable for its potential part in...
New Electrochemical Method Can Remove Extremely Low Levels Of Pollutants From Water
Source: news-medical.net Published: May 10, 2017 When it comes to removing very dilute concentrations of pollutants from water, existing separation methods tend to be energy- and chemical-intensive. Now, a new method developed at MIT could provide a selective...
How Does Reforestation Help the Environment?
Source: globalwarmingisreal.com Published: May 22, 2012 Guest post by Mircea Giurca Climate change and reforestation Global reforestation is an important environmental issue of growing concern. International programs like the United Nations Initiative for Reducing...
This Former Fisherman Is Now Farming the Most Sustainable Food on Earth—Underwater
Source: thenation.com Published: May 6, 2016 Bren Smith (Patrick Mustain) By Bren Smith and Lisa Holmes “For the first time in generations, we have an opportunity to grow food the right way, provide good middle-class jobs, restore ecosystems, and feed the planet.”...
The Secrets of Silvopasturing
Source: hobbyfarms.com Published: August 17, 2016 PHOTO: National Agroforestry Center/Flickr Give your land dual purpose by grazing livestock among a timber stand—a technique called silvopasturing. By Katie Navarra When George Owens and his wife, Pat, became the...
Silvopasture: Adding a Little Forest to the Farm
Source: usda.gov Published: February 25, 2016 Hezekiah and Francis Gibson’s non-profit organization, United Farmers USA works with NRCS staff to help other small farmers succeed through a wide range of outreach and technical assistance, educational programs and...
Out Goes Paddy Rice Farming, In Comes A New Efficient Method
Source: nation.co.ke Published: February 5, 2016 Mr Kyshan Rao, an Indian engineer and farmer, shows farmers how to select good planting seeds in Ahero Irrigation Scheme, Kisumu County. @ ANITA CHEPKOECH Time seems to be up for paddy rice farming as researchers unveil...
Farming with Forests
Source: news.aces.illinois.edu Published: September 22, 2016 By Lauren Quinn September 22, 2016 In the race to feed a growing population, it is important to consider sustainability. University of Illinois researchers are promoting the practice of agroforestry—the...
Are Some Forests Better Than Others at Mitigating Climate Change?
Source: howtoconserve.org Published: February 26, 2016 Photo credit: Travel Photos HD. By Orion McCarthy LIFE ON EARTH wouldn’t be the same without forests. An estimated 1.6 billion people around the world depend on forests for their livelihood. Forests provide food...