It’s Easy to Become an Energy Champion

Source: nbcsandiego.com Published: July 25, 2016 Elementary school students join the California Bear in educational assemblies to learn how they can conserve energy, plus enter to win great prizes The following content is created in consultation with Energy...

Dutch Company To Test Floating Turbine In Bay Of Fundy In Late 2017

Source: thestar.com Published: July 12, 2016   By Keith Doucette HALIFAX—By late 2017, the quest to generate commercial quantities of electricity from the powerful tidal currents in the Bay of Fundy could include testing of a Dutch-engineered floating turbine system...

Dutch Researchers Grow Carbon-Hungry Plants to Suck Up Pollution

Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 29, 2016 The Green Junkie could be able to suck up more pollution due to its many ‘hairs.’ Lacy Cooke Air pollution is a problem most cities face, and plants can be incredibly helpful. But what if there was a super...

This Is the Enormous Gigafactory, Where Tesla Will Build Its Future

Source: wired.com Published: July 27, 2016 Tesla Jack Stewart Twenty miles east of Sparks, Nevada, a factory is rising from the red dirt of the high desert. It doesn’t look like much—a few completed structures amid exposed steel girders—but this building, dubbed...

The Roadmap to Reduce US Food Waste

Source: cropmobster.com Published: July 26, 2016 “If all this wasted food were grown in one place, this mega-farm would cover over 3/4 of California! — The Roadmap to Reduce US Food Waste by 20% CropMobster SF Bay Community! Here is one of the most insightful and...

‘Grand Beedapest Hotel’ Creates an Urban Home for Bees

Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 23, 2016   by Lacy Cooke Tea company Taylors of Harrogate teamed up with Kew Gardens to design the Grand Beedapest Hotel, a luxury bee hotel à la Wes Anderson. Through their enchanting design, Taylors aims to raise awareness...

Got Tons of CO2? Get More Giant Trees

Source: grist.org Published: July 21, 2016 Shutterstock By Samantha Lee If you think about it, giant sequoias are the Dwayne Johnsons of the tree world. They’re California natives. They’re pretty buff, growing up to 300 feet tall and 30 feet wide. And they’re...

How to Tell If You Can Recycle Something, In One Chart

Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: July 21, 2016 Franck DUNOUAU via Getty Images By Carla Herreria Russo Between the multicolored bins, complex facilities and sticky bottles, recycling can seem very intimidating. But it only takes the tiniest bit of extra effort...

See The Clothing That Shows How Bad Smog Is in Your Neighborhood

Source: takepart.com Published: July 19, 2016 Human Sensor artist Kasia Molga. (Photo: Nick Harrison) Garments made for the Human Sensor project have tiny sensors that measure particulate matter. Liz Dwyer The sneaky thing about dirty air is that we inhale it all the...

21-Year-Old Launches Ocean Cleanup Prototype

Source: huffpost.com Published: July 20, 2016   (Click link to watch video) Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup have already deployed their first working prototype in the North Sea and plan to deploy the main device by 2020....