Source: nativeroofs.com Published: January 12, 2017 Native Roofs mimic the original state of the land your building is built on. They include diverse native plant species and design elements which attract and support native insects and birds. Design Green roofs...
Source: nationalgeographic.com Published: October 27, 2016 By Jackie Snow This week, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to require that certain new buildings be built with a green roof—an eco-friendly design technique that sows plants above a roofline. This...
Source: greenroofs.org Published: January 12, 2017 Green roofs offer many public, private, and design-based benefits. Public Benefits Aesthetic Improvement Urban greening has long been promoted as an easy and effective strategy for beautifying the built environment...
Source: breakingenergy.com Published: July 7, 2016 By Richard Boud Harnessing tidal power for clean energy has recently taken a huge step forward in the UK, the world’s leading region for development of this important new renewable resource. The MeyGen Tidal Array...
Source: fastcoexist.com Published: October 28, 2016 By Ben Schiller Off the coast of North Carolina, two friends are developing a new way to desalinate water–a notoriously high-energy, high-cost process. Their solution: use the power of the ocean itself to clean the...
Source: qz.com Published: February 12, 2016 By Cassie Werber Atlantis Resources. To the sea! Take a map of Great Britain and draw a line between its extremities. Far to the southwest is Land’s End. In the northeast corner, your pen will fall into the sea at the...
Source: futurism.com Published: September 21, 2016 Jelor Gallego Two Hawaiian buoys mark step forward for the U.S. Two Buoys, One Goal Albeit a younger technology, tidal wave energy generation is a prospective source of endlessly renewable power. Much of the world is...
Source: scientificamerica.com Published: July 29, 2016 Sorek Desalination Plant. Credit: Photo courtesy of IDE Technologies By Rowan Jacobsen, Ensia From Ensia (find the original story here); reprinted with permission. July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 2, 2017 The reservoirs are placed between building walls to help regulate indoor temperatures. Written by Lucy Wang Water scarcity is felt unequally throughout the world with some regions worse off than others. Iran-based...
Source: scotsman.com Published: April 9, 2014 The Falkirk Wheel. Picture: Robert Perry A marvel of Scottish engineering, the Falkirk Wheel in central Scotland, completed in 2002, is known as the world’s first and only rotating boat lift. Set with the task of making...
