Eco-Innovation Articles From Around the World
It’s Easy to Become an Energy Champion
Source: nbcsandiego.com Published: July 25, 2016 Elementary school students join the California Bear in educational assemblies to learn how they can conserve energy, plus enter to win great prizes The following content is created in consultation with Energy...
Dutch Company To Test Floating Turbine In Bay Of Fundy In Late 2017
Source: thestar.com Published: July 12, 2016 By Keith Doucette HALIFAX—By late 2017, the quest to generate commercial quantities of electricity from the powerful tidal currents in the Bay of Fundy could include testing of a Dutch-engineered floating turbine system...
Dutch Researchers Grow Carbon-Hungry Plants to Suck Up Pollution
Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 29, 2016 The Green Junkie could be able to suck up more pollution due to its many 'hairs.' Lacy Cooke Air pollution is a problem most cities face, and plants can be incredibly helpful. But what if there was a super plant even...
This Is the Enormous Gigafactory, Where Tesla Will Build Its Future
Source: wired.com Published: July 27, 2016 Tesla Jack Stewart Twenty miles east of Sparks, Nevada, a factory is rising from the red dirt of the high desert. It doesn't look like much—a few completed structures amid exposed steel girders—but this building, dubbed the...
The Roadmap to Reduce US Food Waste
Source: cropmobster.com Published: July 26, 2016 “If all this wasted food were grown in one place, this mega-farm would cover over 3/4 of California! — The Roadmap to Reduce US Food Waste by 20% CropMobster SF Bay Community! Here is one of the most insightful and...
‘Grand Beedapest Hotel’ Creates an Urban Home for Bees
Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 23, 2016 by Lacy Cooke Tea company Taylors of Harrogate teamed up with Kew Gardens to design the Grand Beedapest Hotel, a luxury bee hotel à la Wes Anderson. Through their enchanting design, Taylors aims to raise awareness...
Got Tons of CO2? Get More Giant Trees
Source: grist.org Published: July 21, 2016 Shutterstock By Samantha Lee If you think about it, giant sequoias are the Dwayne Johnsons of the tree world. They’re California natives. They’re pretty buff, growing up to 300 feet tall and 30 feet wide. And they’re...
How to Tell If You Can Recycle Something, In One Chart
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: July 21, 2016 Franck DUNOUAU via Getty Images By Carla Herreria Russo Between the multicolored bins, complex facilities and sticky bottles, recycling can seem very intimidating. But it only takes the tiniest bit of extra effort...
See The Clothing That Shows How Bad Smog Is in Your Neighborhood
Source: takepart.com Published: July 19, 2016 Human Sensor artist Kasia Molga. (Photo: Nick Harrison) Garments made for the Human Sensor project have tiny sensors that measure particulate matter. Liz Dwyer The sneaky thing about dirty air is that we inhale it all the...
21-Year-Old Launches Ocean Cleanup Prototype
Source: huffpost.com Published: July 20, 2016 (Click link to watch video) Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup have already deployed their first working prototype in the North Sea and plan to deploy the main device by 2020....
Turning Carbon Dioxide into Stone Could Remove It from The Atmosphere Permanently
Source: reuters.com Published: July 18, 2016 NOTE: The video from the source link is no longer available Turning carbon dioxide into stone could remove it from the atmosphere permanently, according to scientists working in Iceland Even green geothermal power plants...
London’s Oxford Street to Be Pedestrianized By 2020
source: treehugger.com Published: July 19, 2016 CC BY 2.0 Paul Robertson Sami Grover London’s iconic Oxford Street has long been known as a hotspot for both shopping and air pollution. Attracting more than four million people a week, the street is the very definition...
Neil Young Teams Up with TIDAL to Bring ‘Earth Train’ to NYC Subway
Source: ecowatch.com Published: July 14, 2016 Katie Pohlman Neil Young and TIDAL have partnered to give New York City subway riders a unique experience. From July 14 – 31, the “S” shuttle train will have an eco-centric installation called the Earth Train. The train is...
Stylish Coffeemaker Repurposes Used Grounds To Grow Fresh Mushrooms
Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 14, 2016 Grounds are placed in the carafe, followed by just off-boil water, allowed to steep (many say three minutes is the golden time limit), and then a mesh strainer is plunged down into the carafe to separate the soaked...
Army of 1,000 Ducks Used as Brilliant Pesticide Alternative
Source: booooooom.com Published: May 31, 2016 Photo via Reuters Wider Image South Africa’s Vergenoegd vineyard in Stellenbosch keeps a flock of over 1,000 Indian Runner ducks to help combat tiny white dune snails that would otherwise destroy the budding vines. The...
Sacramento Group Rescues 40,000 Tons of Food Waste, Turns It into Fuel
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: July 12, 2016 Organic waste makes up about 30 percent of what’s dumped into landfills By Eleanor Goldberg Click here to watch “Clean World BioDigester”: https://youtu.be/Mfg_KQhE4YQ In Sacramento, farm-to-table is a nice start,...
11 Green Building Materials That Are Way Better Than Concrete
Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 08, 2016 by Emily Peckenham 1. Straw Bales Rather than relying on new research and technology, straw bale building hearkens back to the days when homes were built from natural, locally-occurring materials. Straw bales are used to...
Invisible Food: What Difference Do We Want to Make?
Source: ceribuckmaster.co.uk Published: July 8, 2016 We want to enable people in our community to reach their full potential and we help to increase skills, self esteem and social and environmental awareness to build stronger community networks for a more ...
Plastic Roads: India’s Radical Plan To Bury Its Garbage Beneath The Streets
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 30, 2016 Jambulingam Street, Chennai, India. Photograph: Vittal Srinivas In India, roads made from shredded plastic are proving a popular solution to tackling waste and extreme weather Sribala Subramanian Jambulingam Street,...
Nike’s Ultra-Sustainable Distribution Center Is So Clean It Uses Sheep Instead Of Lawn Mowers
Source: fastcompany.com Published: July 3, 2016 Simon Schmitt Most of the deliveries arrive directly by boat, the cranes are all hybrids, and it runs on 100% renewable energy. By Adele Peters At a typical distribution center somewhere next to a midwestern highway, an...
Canadian Company Turns Air into Fuel in Climate Change Fight
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: July 5, 2016 Carbon Engineering’s carbon capture plant in Squamish. Carbon Engineering It’s capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere for fuel that planes and trucks could one day use. By Dominique Mosbergen In an...
Drawdown: 60 Minutes With Paul Hawken – The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming
Source: climatelinks.org Published: July 5, 2016 Sponsored by Security and Sustainability Forum About this Event Project Drawdown is facilitating a broad coalition of researchers, scientists, graduate students, PhDs, post-docs, policy makers, business leaders and...
How Africans Are Saving Their Own Soil
Source: nationalgeographic.com Published: June 14, 2016 NOTE: This article requires a National Geographic account to view. For hundreds of years, parts of sub-Saharan Africa have suffered from poor soil. Weather, shifting populations, and slash-and-burn practices have...
Smog-Sucking Tower Will Clean the Skies of China
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 30, 2016 Dutch designer Dan Roosegaarde is taking his smog-sucking tower on a tour of China, starting in Beijing. by Cat DiStasio It’s difficult to determine whether Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde hates smog, or loves it. The...
Beru Kids Uses Leftover Textiles to Make Cute Children’s Clothes
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 29, 2016 © Beru Kids Katherine Martinko This company is committed to ethics and environmentalism by manufacturing its clothing line in downtown LA, paying fair wages, and repurposing deadstock textiles. Beru Kids is an ethical...
Sweden Opens World’s First Electric Highway
Source: ecowatch.com Published: June 23, 2016 Electric-powered trucks are expected to cut 80 to 90 percent of fossil fuel emissions in Sweden. Katie Pohlman Sweden opened a stretch of electric highway, becoming the first country to test electric power for heavy...
Roads Paved with Pig Manure Could Mean A Cleaner Future
Source: popsci.com Published: June 28, 2016 By Mary Beth Griggs Pig manure could pave the road to a new sustainable asphalt, thanks to civil engineer Ellie Fini and a team at North Carolina A&T State University. Fini and her partners have filed patents on the...
First Solar Roadway Coming to Historic Route 66
Source: ecowatch.com Published: June 24, 2016 Solar Roadways’s hexagonal solar panels feature LED lighting and smart technology that allows them to “communicate” with each other. Photo credit: Solar Roadways Lorraine Chow Missouri's Department of Transportation...
21 Science-Backed Health Benefits of Honey
Source: well-beingsecrets.com Published: June 24, 2016 article by Helen Nichols @ Well-being Secrets Written by Helen Nichols Medically Reviewed by Dr. John Miller Why Honey If you’re not taking full advantage of the nutritional and medicinal value of honey, it’s...
Santiago’s Subway Will Soon Be the First to Run on Mostly Solar and Wind Power
Source: fastcoexist.com Published: June 3, 2016 Photo: Flickr user Osmar Valdebenito By Adele Peters The Atacama region in Chile–where it essentially never rains–is the sunniest place on the planet. By 2017, some of the solar power produced there will be sent hundreds...
Dutch Prototype Clean-Up Boom Brings Pacific Plastics Solution A Step Closer
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 22, 2016 The barrier will be towed 12 miles out to sea for a year of sensor-monitored tests. Photograph: The Ocean Cleanup If tests of the 100 metre-long barrier that collects rubbish on the sea’s surface are successful, it...
The Roots of Organic Farming on Campus
Source: youtube.com Published: September 15, 2015 Mark Bittman: California Matters Tag along with Mark Bittman as he explores the lush 30-acre farm at UC Santa Cruz. Since 1967, the institution has offered a hands-on apprenticeship program to people from all walks of...
Organic Farming Could Feed the World
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: June 22, 2016 Mike Blake / Reuters Farm workers harvest squash from the Chino Farm in Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. on October 3, 2007 By Joseph Erbentraut When it comes to organic farming, many in the agricultural industry...
5 Innovative Ways Companies Are Using Ocean Plastic
Source: sierraclub.org Published: May 26, 2016 Photo by iStockPhoto/fergregory By Meiling Bedard Scientists estimate that more than 5 million pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans. From flip-flops to microbeads, this pollution poses a serious risk for...
The Sculpture Controlled by Bees: Wolfgang Buttress’s Hive
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 17, 2016 The Hive at Kew Gardens, at night. Photograph: Jeff Eden/RBG Kew Its 170,000 pieces of aluminium are a hive-like structure of latticework, controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in a hive at Kew that is connected to...
This Machine Turns Your Food Waste into Gas for Cooking
Source: huffpost.com Published: June 13, 2016 HomeBiogas By Elyse Wanshel Talk about cooking with gas. HomeBiogas, based in Beit Yanai, Israel, is a biogas system that turns food and organic waste into clean cooking gas, and its byproduct can be used as liquid plant...
The Green Cone Is A Backyard Solar Digester That Reduces 90% Of Food Waste
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 8, 2016 © Compostec -- The Green Cone is more a food digester than a composter, and can deal with significant quantities of food waste in your backyard. Katherine Martinko This ingenious digester/composter, made in Ontario, is...
LAGI Glasgow Showcases New Energy Art Designs Along Scotland’s Canal Banks
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 9, 2016 by Cat DiStasio In its latest effort to showcase clean energy projects, the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) has announced a new exhibition at the Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland. On display at LAGI Glasgow will be a...
CO2 Turned into Stone in Iceland in Climate Change Breakthrough
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 9, 2016 Site close to the Hellisheidi geothermal powerplant, where CO2 was injected into volcanic rock. In two years it was almost completely mineralised. Photograph: Juerg Matter/Science Radical new technique promises a cheaper...
This New Electric Bus Can Drive 350 Miles on One Charge
Source: wired.com Published: September 12, 2016 Proterra Aarian Marshall In the world of electric vehicles, Tesla gets most of the love. Over 100,000 of Elon Musk’s big, bad autos are zooming around the world, gasoline-free. But how many of those can claim to take an...
Scientists Are About to Turn on A System That Converts Atmospheric CO2 into Fuel
Source: collective-evolution.com Published: June 3, 2016 ByAlexa Erickson Gases that help capture heat, called “greenhouse gases,” can be emitted from natural sources, while others are anthropogenic, resulting from human activities. The latter has caused a surge in...
Part Microbe, Part Machine: Bionic Leaf Sucks Up Carbon Dioxide As It Makes Liquid Fuel
Source: latimes.com Published: June 6, 2016 Scientists at Harvard say they’ve used microbes to build a solar fuels device. (Jessica Polka) By Amina Khan A team of scientists at Harvard University says it has come up with a bionic leaf — a system that could use solar...
Biosphere 2: A Glass-Encased Artificial Earth in the Arizona Desert
Source: slate.com Published: September 5, 2013 Some rights reserved by clauretan By Atlas Obscura With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded the building of Biosphere 2 in the middle of the Arizona desert. (Planet earth is...
A Switch to Ecological Farming Will Benefit Health and Environment
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 2, 2016 An organic cotton farm near Djembala village in Mali. Intensive farming with excessive use of fertilisers and pesticides has disastrous consequences on human and animal health, and ecosystem, study says. Photograph:...
Guy Donated His Hipster Beard to Help Soak Up Future Oil Spills
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: June 1, 2016 By Elyse Wanshel Shaving a longtime beard can be a total buzzkill. But when it came time for Scott Boback to get rid of the facial hair that took 20 months to grow, he made the most of it by donating it to a good...
17 Young Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Making the World a Better Place
Source: ecowatch.com Published: June 1, 2016 Guest Contributor By Conscious Company Magazine Conscious Company Magazine partnered with leading accelerators, incubators and educational institutions to identify 17 rising entrepreneurs who see things differently, are...
When Houston Ended Glass Recycling This 8-Year-Old Saw A Healthy Business Opportunity
Source: fusion.net Published: May 25, 2016 Daniel Setiawan HOUSTON—Eight-year-old Tristan “Pan” Berlanga never dreamed of starting his own business. “I’ve always wanted to be a basketball player,” he says as he and his business partner, 28-year-old David Krohn, drive...
World’s Largest Solar Rooftop System Goes Online, Will Power 8,000 Homes
Source: ecowatch.com Published: May 25, 2016 Lorraine Chow The Indian state of Punjab is now home to the world's largest rooftop solar plant. The massive array will produce 11.5 megawatts of energy and is expected to provide clean power to 8,000 homes. The plant,...
Floating Solar Panels Are A Perfect Fit for Drought-Stricken States
Source: edf.org Published: May 25, 2016 A small solar array on a lake in Thailand. Uwe Schwarzbach By Kate Zerrenner With drought becoming the new normal in some parts of the country, an emerging technology brings an unexpected ray of hope: floatovoltaics. Solar...
Compost Crusader
Source: N/A Published: May 25, 2016 Tashjian by one of Compost Crusader’s dumpsters. One waitress wants to 86 food waste. Twice a week, Melissa Tashjian, 35, serves grub at a local pizza joint in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The rest of her time is devoted to her budding...
San Francisco Fog Made into Misty Martinis
Source: popsci.com Published: May 20, 2016 Chris Fogliatti and his fog catcher courtesy Hangar One A new vodka comes from thin air Today Hangar One announced a limited-edition vodka made with water harvested from Bay Area fog, most of it collected at the base of the...
Groundbreaking Affordable, Paper-Thin Filter Removes Viruses From Water
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 19, 2016 Uppsala University scientists have developed a way to filter viruses out of water. by Lacy Cooke Though over 748 million people around the world don’t have access to clean drinking water, water filters aren’t as widely...
Thermos-Like Homes Aggressively Save Energy
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com Published: January 20, 2015 NOTE: This article requires a National Geographic account to view. Three miles northeast of the White House, now topped with solar panels, six modest new row houses are expected to deliver world-class...
Edible Six-Pack Rings Feed Sea Creatures Instead Of Killing Them
Source: boredpanda.com Published: May 19, 2016 LMA Community member If ever you needed a reason to grab a beer and celebrate, this is it. But only if you grab a beer brewed by Saltwater Brewery, because they’re the guys behind this brilliant new idea. They’ve managed...
Solar-Powered Hotel at Oberlin Is First in US to Be Heated and Cooled with Geothermal Energy
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 18, 2016 by Cat DiStasio The sleepy town of Oberlin, Ohio is primarily known for being home to an historic college of the same name, but its reputation may be refreshed by the addition of a new LEED-certified hotel. The Hotel at...
A Boon For Soil, And For The Environment
Source: nytimes.com Published: May 17, 2016 At a farm in Peru, charcoal from bamboo burned in special ovens is used to fertilize the soil. Carbon farming is seen as a way of replenishing depleted farmland and helping reduce damage to the environment. Enrique...
Leaf Dinnerware to Replace Plastic and Styrofoam
Source: thehomestead.guru Published: May 17, 2016 By Catherine Bleish A University in Thailand has spent the past year developing a new type of waterproof bowl made of leaves. The women behind this leaf dinnerware felt called to design a replacement for Styrofoam when...
Kansas City Resident KC EarthKid Is Taking to The Streets to Save The Planet
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 13, 2016 Fed up with the job market not serving the community and the amount of waste we use, a Kansas City resident decides to put on a cape, and take the streets as a super hero to address something important. Recycling! With...
Glow-in-the-Dark Cement Could Illuminate Dark Highways Without Electricity
Source: theuniversalnews.in Published: May 12, 2016 Glowing Bike Path The cement is designed to take in solar energy, which can be emitted at night as light. Scientist José Carlos Rubio wanted to see if he could figure out a way to illuminate highways and roads at...
Nike Is Now Making Most of Its Shoes from Its Own Garbage
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: May 11, 2016 Reuters Staff / Reuters The soccer pitch may no longer be the greenest thing in this photo. “I never knew how excited I could get about waste,” says Nike’s sustainability chief. By Alexander C. Kaufman Nike is...
These Super-Efficient Solar Panels Are Light Enough to Install Almost Anywhere
Source: fastcoexist.com Published: May 6, 2016 Sunflare is a Los Angeles startup that’s making solar panels smaller and lighter. Affix Sunflare’s technology to wherever you want with barely any effort. By Charlie Sorrel Sunflare is a Los Angeles startup that’s making...
Receding Reefs: Understanding and Protecting our Coral Ecosystems
Source: fix.com Published: May 10, 2016 Coral reefs are incredibly important to the diversity and health of our oceans. Making up only 0.2 percent of our oceans, but containing around a quarter of all marine fish species, coral reefs are second only to rainforests in...
500 Hot Showers from One Pile of Compost!
Source: resilientfamily.com Published: May 6, 2016 Jean Pain is a guy that you’ve probably never heard of… He was a French innovator and inventor who developed an innovative compost-based bioenergy system that produced 100% of all of his energy requirements....
When in Drought: The California Farmers Who Don’t Water Their Crops
Source: theguardian.com Published: May 5, 2016 Ryan Power (right) and childhood friend Adam Davidoff run the New Family Farm. Photograph: Gary Ottonello/Handout Dry farming forgoes modern irrigation and, farmers say, produces much tastier crops. In a drought-stricken...
Replace Your Front Wheel with This One, And Go from Bike to Ebike
Source: treehugger.com Published: May 4, 2016 © GeoOrbital Derek Markham The GeoOrbital Wheel promises speeds of 20 mph, a 50 mile range, and drop dead simple installation. The Internet has been buzzing over the launch of a new method of converting a standard bicycle...
This Adorable Tiny Car Is Actually A Bike
Source: fastcoexist.com Published: May 2, 2016 Thanks to an electric motor, the PodRide can drive about 15 miles an hour. The PodRide has headlights, a trunk, a roof–and even a motor. By Adele Peters After he got tired of biking to work in Sweden’s cold, wet winters,...
Scientists Turn Florida’s Rotten Tomatoes into Clean Energy
Source: sustainablebrands.com Published: April 30, 2016 Mike Hower Tomatoes are useful for a lot of things — mixing into salads, adding nutritional value to cheeseburgers, lobbing at struggling standup comics, and even making plastic for car parts. But a team of...
How a High School Program Is Preserving Seeds of The Past for Future Generations
Source: bangordailynews.com Published: May 1, 2016 By Julia Bayly WALDOBORO, Maine — When researchers in Scotland needed seeds to grow Bere, a very old barley variety once cultivated for thousands of years in highlands, they looked across the Atlantic to a midcoast...
To Rid the Oceans of Plastic Pollution, Company Develops Plastic Fishing
Source: wakingtimes.com Published: April 29, 2016 Images source: https://www.facebook.com/PlasticWhale/ Vic Bishop The inspiring and innovative crew of a small company, Plastic Whale, in The Netherlands, is making cleaning up plastics its daily mission and confronting...
A Floating Food Forest Prepares to Sets Sail in New York City
Source: civileats.com Published: April 28, 2016 Art meets public food access with Swale. By Jodi Helmer Half public art project, half tourist destination, a floating food forest called Swale is set to launch along the New York City waterfront in June. Unlike the...
Heliofloat Is A Flexible, Football-Field-Sized Solar Panel That Floats in The Ocean
Source: digitaltrends.com Published: April 28, 2016 By Kelly Hodgkins Offshore wind farms are growing in popularity as energy providers look for different ways of harvesting power from the sun without using valuable land resources. One unique idea being developed by...
Inside the High-Tech Farm Growing Kale in An Old Paintball Arena
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: April 26, 2016 A rendering of Aerofarms’ new headquarters in Newark, New Jersey, which it says will be the largest indoor vertical farm in the world. This could be part of the future of farming. By Alexander C. Kaufman NEWARK, New...
We Have Hit Peak France – Cheesemakers Are Using Production Waste To Make Electricity
Source: good.is Published: April 21, 2016 A look at the monstrous amount of whey that can come from cheese production. It turns out cheese whey is a great power source Rachel Nuwer The French are stylishly tackling food waste with a picturesque new power plant, high...
This Off-Grid Coffee Trailer Might Be Coming to An Event Near You
Source: inhabitat.com Published: April 21, 2016 by kincoffee Meet Mike and Tabi. For years they’ve had a dream of owning a local coffee shop. Mike began working as a barista and Tabi as a stylist in the film world. After drinking too many mediocre (at best) cups of...
Styrofoam-Eating Mealworms Might Help Reduce Plastic Waste
Source: cnn.com Published: April 22, 2016 It's mealtime for these mealworms, which researchers have found are able to eat Styrofoam. The waste they produce from these dubious snacks is biodegradable. By Jareen Imam Plastic, long considered nonbiodegradable and one of...
How Colorado Is Turning Food Waste into Electricity
Source: wrvo.org Published: April 5, 2016 Luke Runyon / KUNC, Harvest Public Media At the Heartland Biogas Project, millions of tons of food waste are collected and converted into usable methane gas By Luke Runyon Americans throw away about a third of our available...
Smart Shower Head Knows When You’re Not Under It and Turns Itself Off
Source: treehugger.com Published: April 18, 2016 © OaSense Derek Markham For hands-free water conservation in the shower, OaSense automatically pauses the water flow when you step out from under it. When it comes to conserving water in the bathroom, taking a 'navy...
‘Climate-Smart Soils’ May Help Balance the Carbon Budget
Source: news.cornell.edu Published: April 6, 2016 Andrew Martin Simons Johannes Lehmann, center, discusses soil research with farmers in Awassa, Ethiopia. By Blaine Friedlander Here’s the scientific dirt: Soil can help reduce global warming. While farm soil grows the...
This Farm Uses Rental Chickens to Egg on Those Curious About Urban Farming
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: April 15, 2016 One of Twin Cedar Farm’s coops. CBS Flock to Twin Cedar Farm. By Elyse Wanshel Like the idea of raising backyard chickens but you’re not sure if the responsibility will ruffle your feathers? Twin Cedar Farm in...
Harness the Energy of The Sun to Make the Best Snack Ever Invented
Source: climatekids.nasa.gov Published: April 13, 2016 Sunshine S’mores Yummmmm! A solar oven is a box that traps some of the Sun’s energy to make the air inside the box hotter than the air outside the box. In other words, the solar oven is like a super greenhouse....
Solar-Powered Watly Provides Internet, Energy, And Drinking Water for Ghana Residents
Source: inhabitat.com Published: April 11, 2016 by Cat DiStasio When it comes to renewable energy in developing nations, sometimes a solid multitasker is the way to go. That’s the idea behind the Watly system, a solar-powered machine that stores electricity, purifies...
Solar Panel Turns Raindrops into Power
Source: seeker.com Published: April 11, 2016 By DNews An innovative solar panel technology could turn raindrops into electric power, according to scientists in China. The new solar cell design, which can be "triggered" by both rain and sun, is described in a paper...
Billions in Change
Source: permaculturenews.org Published: October 14, 2015 Shaan Bhargava The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story...
Treating Soil A Little Differently Could Help It Store A Huge Amount of Carbon
Source: thinkprogress.org Published: April 7, 2016 CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK What if something as simple as the dirt under your feet could help mitigate some of the worst of climate change? The Earth’s soils contain a lot of carbon, and helping to manage and restore them...
New Swedish Wave Energy Buoy Boasts 5x The Output of Existing Technology
Source: inhabitat.com Published: April 7, 2016 CorPower Ocean buoy rendering by Cat DiStasio We already harness energy from the sun, the wind, and many other natural processes for our own uses, and electricity generated from ocean waves could be the next big thing in...
These Photos Capture the Startling Effect of Shrinking Bee Populations
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: April 7, 2016 Kevin Frayer/Getty Images A Chinese farmer pollinates a pear tree by hand in Hanyuan County, Sichuan province, China. By Casey Williams In parts of rural China, humans are doing the work bees once did. Striking new...
Danish Design Students Create Sustainable Waste Bins to Solve Public Trash Problems
Source: treehugger.com Published: April 6, 2016 © http://www.dropbucket.dk/index.html James Clasper The award-winning DropBucket is a recycled cardboard trash can that can be reused and/or recycled. For some product designers, necessity is the mother of invention. For...
Inside the Schools with Edible Playgrounds
Source: theguardian.com Published: April 5, 2016 Edible gardens help teach children about nutrition, encourage physical activity, and they can help with food poverty. Photograph: Rockmount primary school Schools are discovering that getting students to grow their own...
How to Establish A Zero-Waste Cleaning Routine
Source: treehugger.com Published: April 1, 2016 CC BY 2.0 Sarah Laval Katherine Martinko Minimize the number of ingredients and the tools required to keep your house clean, as well as the waste generated by the cleaning process. A house is not truly clean if the...
Sustainable Steps for Parks Preservation
Source: nationalgeographic.com Published: March 29, 2016 Photograph by beth trudeau/shutterstock Subaru offers steps everyone can take on a zero-landfill path to keep our National Parks pristine. This year’s National Park Service centennial marks a time to celebrate a...
Girl’s Lemonade Recipe to Saves Bees Turned into Million Dollar Whole Foods Deal
Source: goodnewsnetwork.org Published: March 30, 2016 By Terry Turner This 11-year-old girl has turned her grandmother’s flaxseed lemonade recipe into a national business—and she is donating ten percent of the proceeds to saving honey bees. Mikaila Ulmer became an...
Edible cutlery: Narayana Peesapaty at TED
Source: matteroftrust.org Published: March 29, 2016 The company, BAKEYS FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED was established in 2010 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India as an alternative to disposable plastic/wood cutlery and bamboo chopsticks....
Berlin Grocery with Vertical Micro-Farm Reimagines the Future of Produce Departments
Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 24, 2016 INFARM's vertical micro-farm grows fresh greens inside Berlin's METRO Cash & Carry supermarket. by Cat DiStasio Grocers are in constantly pursuit of ways to connect their customers with the freshest, highest quality...
Farmers on Bikes Use Neighborhood Lawns to Grow Food, And You Can Too
Source: treehugger.com Published: March 22, 2016 CC BY 2.0 David Owen Melissa Breyer Here’s how to use other people's land for organic garden plots, and get bike-riding farmers to help from harvest to market. Several years ago 27-year old Chris Castro took a look...
Apple Now Operates on 93% Renewable Energy Worldwide
Source: greentechmedia.com Published: March 22, 2016 The electronics giant also has a nifty new recycling robot. Julia Pyper On Monday, Apple unveiled the highly anticipated iPhone SE and the new iPad Pro. Equally exciting for some, the electronics giant announced...
See How Apple Demolishes and Recycles Old iPhones
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: March 21, 2016 This is an important step for the tech giant. By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a robotic system called Liam to take apart junked iPhones and recover valuable materials that can be...
Economics, Water Drives Soil Conservation Farming
Source: planetnatural.com Published: March 22, 2016 No-till, reduced pesticide and herbicide, cover crop farming methods on the grow. By E. Vinje Organic gardening practice that emphasizes soil quality in our backyard vegetable patch and landscape is one thing....
New Bike Café Adds Solar, Wind, An Air Purifier, And Recycles Coffee Grounds into Flowers
Source: treehugger.com Published: March 17, 2016 © Wheelys Derek Markham The Wheelys 4, or the Green Warrior, can put you in the saddle of a bike-based small business for under $5000. The latest iteration of the Wheelys micro-café, a bicycle-based pop-up coffee shop...
Oregon State University Launch Free Permaculture Introductory Course
Source: permaculture.co.uk Published: March 17, 2016 Andrew Millison has designed a free 4 week introductory permaculture course with university backing. You can sign up anywhere in the world. What's not to love?! Oregon State University is providing free access to...
How Does Oakland Turn Food Scraps to Soil?
Published: March 9, 2016 Source: youtube.com Oakland began collecting compost from all residential units in July 2015, but where does all of this new green waste go? Follow the lifecycle of your food scraps as they make their way through the composting process....