Source: upcyclethat.com Published: May 22, 2015 Inspiration strikes in the most unusual ways. Édouard T. Arsenault began to build these incredible bottle houses in 1980. He was 66 at the time and had received a postcard from his daughter of a glass bottle castle in...
Source: ocregister.com Published: April 28, 2015 By Joseph Pimentel Walking around Disneyland’s Circle D Corral ranch, Jared Blumenfeld was in awe. A regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, Blumenfeld went inside the behind-the-scenes barn...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: April 21, 2015 Adidas is trying to decrease the staggering amount of plastic waste that ends up in the world’s oceans every year. Photo Credit: Parley for the Oceans Lorraine Chow Would you buy shoes or clothes made from trash that is...
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: April 9, 2015 by Charley Cameron According to the World Health Organization, some 2.5 billion people lack access to improved (ie., safe, clean) sanitation facilities, and so in 2011 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the...
Source: youtube.com Published: March 20, 2015 Waterstep train people in developing countries how to use safe water solutions like water purification, health education, and well repair, empowering communities to take care of their own water needs for years. They...
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: gizmag.com Published: January 5, 2015 Discarded plastic items await recycling (Photo: Shutterstock) By Dario Borghino Mexican startup Ak Inovex has developed a new method of recycling plastic that does away with water and only consumes half the energy of...
Source: citylab.com Published: February 24, 2015 Stephen Mallon/Front Room Gallery John Metcalfe A photographer spent years watching heavy machinery hurl MTA cars into the Atlantic. Few people can say they’ve journeyed far offshore to watch an excavator sling...
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,...
