Source: ecowatch.com Published: February 19, 2016 By Lorraine Chow With more plastic than fish expected in our oceans by 2050, cleaning up this mess seems like an impossible task. But a team of inventors from Sussex, England have developed a novel solution. The SeaVax...
Source: matteroftrust.org Published: December 3, 2015 “Preventing waste, recycling and composting are some of the easiest and most cost-effective actions anyone can take to protect our environment and improve human welfare,” says Robert Haley, Zero Waste Manager for...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: October 16, 2015 Yui Mok/PA Archive The tiny Nordic country is beating the world in the switch. By Alexander C. Kaufman Norway is speeding past other countries in the electric car race. The trick, it seems, is setting high vehicle...
Source: mnn.com Published: October 7, 2015 This interactive map shows where plastic bags have been banned (green pins), where there is now a fee for them (blue pins), and where bans have been attempted but failed (red pins). Sadly, most of the red pins are in the...
Source: goodnewsnetwork.org Published: April 16, 2015 Photo credit: I Got Garbage Facebook Page The third largest city in India piles up huge amounts of garbage every day, while recycling very little. Thousands of Bangalore’s poorest citizens pick through dangerous...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 21, 2015 James Dyson, inventor of the Dyson vacuum, wants to use a river barge with cyclone cleaning technology to clean dirty rivers. by Kristine Lofgren Dyson originally unveiled the idea for Time magazine, but the folks over...
Source: kickstarter.com Published: March 4, 2015 “A coffee cup that has native seeds embedded within the material to be used for reforestation in your local communities”. Reduce. Reuse. Grow. was founded during a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, landscape architecture senior...
Source: treehugger.com Published: February 24, 2015 Katherine Martinko High-quality bulk ingredients, as long as you bring your own container — sounds like my kind of dream store! Alice Bigorgne worked in marketing until she read a book that changed her life....
Source: phys.org Published: January 5, 2015 by Investigación y Desarrollo Traditionally, plastic recycling processes involve using a lot of water. In order to avoid this waste, Ak Inovex from Mexico developed a new green technology that doesn’t require liquids,...
Source: sacbee.com Published: January 3, 2015 Scott Thompson, program director for ReSoil Sacramento, transports scraps collected from Selland’s Market Cafe. Co-founder David Baker says ReSoil recently passed the 60,850-pound mark for its “pre-consumer waste” pickup....
