Source: grist.org Published: October 26, 2017 Grist / Image Source / Getty Images By Eve Andrews The questions that land in the Ask Umbra inbox are, by turns, incredibly vague, hyper-specific, heartily baffling, and genuinely touching. (Send more of them!) But there...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 26, 2017 Food Tank By Eva Perroni A new documentary from chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, WASTED! The Story of Food Waste explores both the problem of food waste in the U.S. and possible solutions from around...
Source: uproxx.com Published: October 26, 2017 Steve Bramucci Click here to watch “Is This The Solution To Plastic Waste Pollution?”: https://youtu.be/o_STBEU7ykI We can’t lie to ourselves anymore. Plastic is oil. It doesn’t biodegrade (instead it photodegrades,...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: October 26, 2017 Vintage King Audio in Echo Park increased its recycling rate to 90% and its trash bill was cut in half. Roxana Tynan 2017 has reminded us in stark terms, whether through devastating hurricanes, fires, floods, or...
Source: news.mit.edu Published: October 25, 2017 “Our technology takes plastic out of the landfill, locks it up in concrete, and also uses less cement to make the concrete, which makes fewer carbon dioxide emissions,” says assistant professor Michael Short. Image: MIT...
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: October 19, 2017 Aimee Stapleton and other researchers at the University of Limerick have found that lysozyme—in tears, saliva, mucus, milk and chicken eggs—accumulates an electric charge when squeezed. (Sean Curtin, True...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 19, 2017 Written by Lidija Grozdanic The LEED Platinum-certified Noe Hill Smart Ecohome marries state-of-the-art green technology and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle that urban dwellers dream about. The house, designed...
Source: theverge.com Published: October 19, 2017 By Angela Chen The wings of a butterfly have inspired a new type of solar cell that can harvest light twice as efficiently as before and could one day improve our solar panels. Scientists from KIT and Caltech...
Source: organicconsumers.org Published: October 18, 2017 by Brandon Keim To the many moral and practical reasons for protecting the creatures with whom we share this blue marble, add one more. They might help Earth safely store more carbon. Writing in the...
