Source: theguardian.com Published: June 22, 2016 The barrier will be towed 12 miles out to sea for a year of sensor-monitored tests. Photograph: The Ocean Cleanup If tests of the 100 metre-long barrier that collects rubbish on the sea’s surface are successful, it...
Source: youtube.com Published: September 15, 2015 Mark Bittman: California Matters Tag along with Mark Bittman as he explores the lush 30-acre farm at UC Santa Cruz. Since 1967, the institution has offered a hands-on apprenticeship program to people from all walks of...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: June 22, 2016 Mike Blake / Reuters Farm workers harvest squash from the Chino Farm in Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. on October 3, 2007 By Joseph Erbentraut When it comes to organic farming, many in the agricultural industry...
Source: sierraclub.org Published: May 26, 2016 Photo by iStockPhoto/fergregory By Meiling Bedard Scientists estimate that more than 5 million pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans. From flip-flops to microbeads, this pollution poses a serious risk for...
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 17, 2016 The Hive at Kew Gardens, at night. Photograph: Jeff Eden/RBG Kew Its 170,000 pieces of aluminium are a hive-like structure of latticework, controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in a hive at Kew that is connected to...
Source: huffpost.com Published: June 13, 2016 HomeBiogas By Elyse Wanshel Talk about cooking with gas. HomeBiogas, based in Beit Yanai, Israel, is a biogas system that turns food and organic waste into clean cooking gas, and its byproduct can be used as liquid plant...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 9, 2016 by Cat DiStasio In its latest effort to showcase clean energy projects, the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) has announced a new exhibition at the Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland. On display at LAGI Glasgow will be a...
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 9, 2016 Site close to the Hellisheidi geothermal powerplant, where CO2 was injected into volcanic rock. In two years it was almost completely mineralised. Photograph: Juerg Matter/Science Radical new technique promises a cheaper...
Source: wired.com Published: September 12, 2016 Proterra Aarian Marshall In the world of electric vehicles, Tesla gets most of the love. Over 100,000 of Elon Musk’s big, bad autos are zooming around the world, gasoline-free. But how many of those can claim to take an...
