Source: greentechmedia.com Published: March 11, 2015 Photo Credit: SPG Solar Julia Pyper California wine country is going solar. Specifically, floating solar. Sonoma Clean Power recently announced it has contracted to build the largest floating solar project in the...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: March 10, 2015 The Vertical Harvest farm is a three-story hydroponic greenhouse on a 30 foot by 150 foot plot of land in Jackson, Wyoming. The company is capable of producing more than 37,000 pounds of greens, 4,400 pounds of herbs and...
Source: naturalsociety.com Published: February 25, 2015 And it could save the bees By Jefferey Jaxen Humanity is facing a toxicity problem as our immediate environment becomes increasingly riddled with pesticides. They are making us unhealthy faster than we can study...
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: March 6, 2015 Seawater is piped to a concentrated solar power plant that powers an evaporative desalination system. The distilled water is used to irrigate plants. (Sahara Forest Project) Solar power plants in Qatar and Jordan,...
Source: kickstarter.com Published: March 4, 2015 “A coffee cup that has native seeds embedded within the material to be used for reforestation in your local communities”. Reduce. Reuse. Grow. was founded during a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, landscape architecture senior...
Source: treehugger.com Published: February 24, 2015 Katherine Martinko High-quality bulk ingredients, as long as you bring your own container — sounds like my kind of dream store! Alice Bigorgne worked in marketing until she read a book that changed her life....
Source: gizmag.com Published: January 5, 2015 Discarded plastic items await recycling (Photo: Shutterstock) By Dario Borghino Mexican startup Ak Inovex has developed a new method of recycling plastic that does away with water and only consumes half the energy of...
Source: citylab.com Published: February 24, 2015 Stephen Mallon/Front Room Gallery John Metcalfe A photographer spent years watching heavy machinery hurl MTA cars into the Atlantic. Few people can say they’ve journeyed far offshore to watch an excavator sling...