5 Futuristic Food Wrappers That You Don’t Have to Throw Away

Source: wired.com Published: September 2, 2014 photo credit: Image credit: Tomorrow Machine via ScienceAlert Margaret Rhodes You wake up, eat some Greek yogurt, then throw out the plastic cup. Later on, you get a salad and a mini-bag of chips, and then you throw away...

Urban Algae Farm Gobbles Up Highway Air Pollution

Source: iflscience.com Published: November 4, 2014 Cloud Collective A French and Dutch design firm has come up with an elegantly simple way to harness the wonderful power of nature in order to clean up the environment: an algae farm suspended over a small stretch of...

A Sprinkle of Compost Helps Rangeland Lock Up Carbon

Source: sfgate.com Published: October 20, 2014   Photo: Leah Millis / The San Francisco Chronicle. Jose Jimenez drives the windrow turner, used to rotate rows of compost. By Carolyn Lochhead A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch...

Massive Green-Roofed StreetDome Skate Park Pops Up in Denmark

Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 17, 2014 by Lidija Grozdanic The project is part of an initiative to create a new urban space for recreation, led by the chairman of the SkateCity association Morten Hansen. CEBRA and Glifberg+Lykke designed a...

New England Hydropower – Archimedes Screw Generators

Source: nehydropower.com Published: October 16, 2014 The New England Hydropower Company, LLC (NEHC) develops, operates, owns and manages small-scale regional and local hydroelectric facilities. We provide the renewable energy market with a fresh, environmentally...

A Kid With 10,000 Magnifying Glasses To Capture The Sun

Source: america.aljazeera.com Published: January 24, 2014 Kyle Hill speaks with SolarReserve’s heliostat technician, William Allen. 2013 by Kyle Hill In one day, the sun bathes the earth in more energy than we have cumulatively produced in the history of...