Renewable Resources & Lands


Brazil’s Inhotim Is A Sustainable Art Park

Source: treehugger.com Published: April 26, 2013 Bonnie Alter Inhotim is part sustainable botanical garden, part artistic wonder. Located in Brazil, its 240 sprawling acres sit on what was once a mining site. Today it’s a carefully tended landscape that includes lush...

Trees Used to Create Recyclable, Efficient Solar Cell

Source: sciencedaily.com Published: March 26, 2013 Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It’s fitting that they can now be made partially from trees. Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have...

BioBot 20: A Biodiesel Plant for Your Kitchen Counter

Source: earthtechling.com Published: February 13, 2013 By Beth Buczynski I love eating bacon, but hate making it. Not only does that smell seem to permeate every inch of the house for hours after, but there’s always the question of what to do with the leftover grease....

How Algae Biodiesel Works

  Source: science.howstuffworks.com       Published: January 22, 2013       by Stefani Newman             Pretty, isn’t it? Although this looks like abstract art, this stuff could be fueling our...

Coral Fights Back Against Warming Seas

  Source: motherjones.com       Published: January 8, 2013       Tim McDonnell                   Different colonies of Acropora hyacinthus, one species examined by the Stanford team,...

FILM – The Fuel Film – Documentary 2007– 2009

2009 ACADEMY AWARDS QUALIFIED AND WINNER OF 2008 AUDIENCE AWARD AT SUNDANCE   Matter of Trust was the fiscal sponsor for Josh Tickell’s Veggie Van.org from 2003 to 2009 when it received its own public charity status. Josh knows oil and how it is the...