Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 19, 2016 Image via Wikipedia Written by Greg Beach One of America’s dirtiest cities has completely altered its legacy as one of the country’s greenest. Over the last few decades, Chattanooga, Tennessee has been transformed from...
Source: kqed.org Published: August 15, 2016 The tiny water purifier doesn’t require batteries and uses the visible spectrum of light to help kill bacteria. (Chong Liu and Jin Xie/Stanford University) Lindsey Hoshaw A tiny black tablet could prove to be a...
Solar + Storage for Resilience – 2014 – 2016 There are over 6,000 photovoltaic systems installed on homes and businesses throughout San Francisco that will, for safety reasons, stop generating power when the grid is lost during an earthquake or storm...
RESEARCH – How Compost Breaks Down Pharmaceuticals in Human and Animal Waste – 2016 The benefits of composting are well known, but what happens when pharmaceuticals enter the picture? Can material containing traces of pharmaceuticals – antibiotics in...
Source: triplepundit.com Published: August 16, 2016 Image credit: Serres Toundra Words by Leon Kaye Last week, a Canadian carbon capture technology firm announced a new project that will trap carbon dioxide emissions from a pulp and paper plant and transfer them to a...
Source: ibtimes.com Published: August 17, 2016 By Susmita Baral Scientists in Germany are exploring how aquatic plants can help clean up oil spills and there appears to be some potential in water plants. The team of researchers, who published their findings in the...
San Francisco – Urban Carbon Farming Project Matter of Trust was serving as the fiscal sponsor for this San Francisco Urban Carbon Farming Project for 3 years which aims to take state-of-the-art science and protocol for measuring the carbon sequestration effects...
Source: theguardian.com Published: August 11, 2015 Illustration showing how Kepler Energy’s turbine rotor blades will look installed in a tidal fence configuration. Photograph: Kepler Energy Alex Kirby for Climate News Network, part of the Guardian Environment Network...
Source: laweekly.com Published: August 1, 2016 Credit: alohavictoria/Flickr Dennis Romero Freeways inspire road rage, serve as giant trash receptacles and take us home, often very slowly. And now, a new statewide initiative means they could soon be generating some...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 10, 2016 The material’s incredible moisture-retaining abilities come from its high polysaccharide and pectin content. by Orion Rodriguez In the midst of South Africa’s worst drought in recorded history, one Johannesburg...
