Source: grist.org Published: August 18, 2014 Danielle McClung By Sara Bernard When Dennis and Danielle McClung bought a foreclosed home in Mesa, Ariz., in 2009, their new yard featured a broken, empty swimming pool. Instead of spending a small fortune to repair and...
Source: businessinsider.com Published: April 12, 2014 Charge mobile devices while preparing meals! The PowerPot combines the benefits of a lightweight cooking pot and a portable USB charger. Power any adventure while heating up a meal on a backpacking stove or sitting...
Source: chinadaily.com Published: November 16, 2012 Most of us are unaware of how much electricity we consume everyday for our routine activities and nothing would be better than trapping solar energy for accomplishing these activities. XDModo Solar Sunflower is a...
Source: tealcheese.com Published: July 29, 2014 In order for humans to live, they must have a steady supply of oxygen they can depend on. Plants make our life bearable. They inhale the carbon dioxide we breathe out and exhale oxygen. But in space there are no plants...
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com Published: July 19, 2014 An abandoned Sony factory in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, has been transformed into what could very well be the farm of the future. Shigeharu Shimamura, a plant physiologist and CEO of Mirai, has constructed...
Source: commondreams.org Published: August 1, 2014 By Elizabeth Kucinich (Photo: flickr / cc / Jason Johnson, USDA NRCS Iowa) Yesterday the White House and USDA hosted a meeting with food, agriculture and data industry officials in an attempt to encourage innovation...
Source: Wonderfulengineering.com Published: August 1, 2014 The XDModo Solar Charger provides an adhesive surface which sticks to any window or glass surface, allowing it to use solar energy to charge your phone while staying indoors. The 1400 mAh lithium battery in...
Source: yesmagazine.org Published: July 31, 2014 Quechua indigenous people from Asia and South America gather potato seed at the Parque de la Papa. Photo by Adam Kerby. As climate change makes it more difficult to practice agriculture in their ancestral homelands,...
Source: blazepress.com Published: July 21, 2014 This futuristic new Solar Powered chair was developed by professor Sheila Kennedy and her students at MIT. The cool looking new chair uses solar power to generate electricity and has ports to charge your iPad and Laptop...
Source: ilsr.org Published: July 14, 2014 Washington, DC — Composting reduces waste and builds healthy soil to support local food production and protect against the impacts of extreme weather, from droughts to heavy rainfall. That’s the message of two new reports from...
