Source: inhabitat.com Published: April 6, 2017 by Maria Novozhilova Hemp is a sustainable supermaterial with a wide range of applications that go far beyond hacky sacks and beaded bracelets. An experimental project called Fabric-Action explores exciting new uses for...
Source: fastcompany.com Published: August 24, 2015 With Project Sunroof, Google hopes to make it easier for more households to make the switch to renewables. Solar power is cheaper than buying from the grid in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and San Jose–even...
Source: greenbiz.com Published: April 3, 2017 As of 2013, water treatment plants accounted for almost 1 percent of all the electricity used in the United States. Shutterstock By Erica Gies Wastewater treatment plants are energy hogs. A 2013 study by the Electric Power...
Source: treesisters.org Published: April 5, 2017 Restoring Our Forests – One Woman At a Time Women as a Force of Nature, On Behalf of Nature BECOME A TREESISTER We are calling for women to become treesisters by contributing monthly to tropical reforestation. We are...
Source: wur.nl Published: February 3, 2016 Regrowing secondary tropical forests rapidly sequester carbon. An international team of forest researchers led by researchers from Wageningen University measured an eleven times higher carbon uptake compared with old-growth...
Source: greenfuture.io Published: March 10, 2017 Rebecca Paredes The Airpod is a zero-pollution, air-powered car that wants to change transportation. At 4 a.m., bleary-eyed and barely awake, I spoke with Cyril Nègre on the other side of the world. He was Skyping with...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 29, 2017 Post-Hurricane Sandy, Red Hook Houses, Brooklyn’s largest public housing complex, is getting a new, more resilient makeover. Written by Jasmin Malik Chua When Hurricane Sandy made landfall in October 2012, the Brooklyn...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: April 5, 2017 Chris McDermott Turning seawater into drinking water just became more feasible. Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK have developed graphene oxide membranes with holes small enough to filter out salt. The...
Source: youtube.com Published: April 4, 2017 Can we stop global warming in the next 30 years? This is the burning question of the 21st century and renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken used our March What’s Now: San Francisco gathering to give his answer: Yes we can....
Source: the-fringe.com Published: April 3, 2017 Carbon dating has found living baobab trees that are over 6,000 years old, which is older than the Great Pyramid and Sphinx. Want some more perspective? When some of the baobabs in Senegal were just reaching...
