6 Groundbreaking Examples of Tech Innovations Inspired by Biomimicry

Source: inhabitat.com  Published: March 29, 2017 by Marni Fogelson Da Vinci was definitely on to something when he observed birds and copied their forms to create his own wings for flight. Although biomimicry wasn’t ultimately successful in helping Da Vinci achieve...

Reducing Methane Emissions From Rice Farming

Source: climatecolab.org Published: June 15, 2016 by ClimateRe Pitch Reducing Methane Emission While Enhancing Rice Farmers’ Resilience to Climate Change Click here to watch “Reducing methane emissions from rice farming”: https://youtu.be/gkQj4V8VsAY The rice farmers...

How We Zero Waste

Source: youtube.com Published: February 16, 2017 Learn how ingredients does zero waste See YouTube video below. 20170328-How-We-Zero-Waste...

Forest Restoration & Reforestation

Source: globalforestatlas.yale.edu Published: March 28, 2017 In places where forests have been lost or degraded, restoration or reforestation projects may be undertaken in order to guarantee or accelerate the recovery of forests. Objectives of forest restoration can...

A Future Farming Industry Grows in Brooklyn

Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: March 25, 2017 By Alexander C. Kaufman and Joseph Erbentraut The startup Square Roots is training the next generation of urban farmers in a Bed-Stuy parking lot. BROOKLYN, New York ― Tobias Peggs is already cultivating leafy...

‘Moore’s Law’ For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming

Source: theguardian.com Published: March 23, 2017 ‘In the last decade, the share of renewables in the energy sector has doubled every 5.5 years. If doubling continues at this pace fossil fuels will exit the energy sector well before 2050.’ Photograph: Alexander...

Trash Collectors

Source: sierraclub.org Published: March 15, 2017 Seth Orme, founder of the Pack It Out Crew, on North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail | Photo by Mike Belleme By Aaron Carnes A few years ago, Seth Orme was working his dream job as an outdoor guide in Minnesota. The...

SRI International Network and Resources Center

Source: sri.ciifad.cornell.edu Published: March 22, 2017 SRI-Rice ONLINE and its associated social networking sites are maintained by the SRI International Network and Resources Center (SRI-Rice) at Cornell University. SRI-Rice ONLINE contains the most comprehensive...

Seeding the Way with Systems of Rice Intensification in Cambodia

Source: fao.org Published: March 22, 2017 (Text comes from a pdf article) Mrs Tea Sarim is one of the participating farmers in a European Union funded multi-country (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam and Thailand) project called “Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for...