Source: ecowatch.com Published: May 26, 2015 Lorraine Chow The world is less than 40 years away from a serious problem: producing enough food for 9 billion mouths. But with climate change cutting more than a quarter of crop yields by 2050, innovators must devise...
Source: upcyclethat.com Published: May 22, 2015 Inspiration strikes in the most unusual ways. Édouard T. Arsenault began to build these incredible bottle houses in 1980. He was 66 at the time and had received a postcard from his daughter of a glass bottle castle in...
Source: gizmag.com Published: March 1, 2013 Gizmag reviews the Window and Port Solar Chargers from XD Design By Paul Ridden This time last year, we covered an interesting new solar charger that sought to avoid troublesome shadows from window frames, potted plants and...
Source: theguardian.com Published: May 13, 2015 The 100 square metre mirror dishes being tested by Ripasso in the Kalahari desert. Photograph: Jeffrey Barbee Using military technology and a zero-emission engine invented by a 19th-century Scot, Swedish firm seeks to...
Source: aljazeera.com Published: May 10, 2015 by Tarek Bazley Engineers in the Netherlands say a novel solar road surface that generates electricity and can be driven over has proved more successful than expected. Last year they built a 70-metre test track along a...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 12, 2015 by Lori Zimmer A4A Rivolta Savioni studio’s urban garden solution popped up at Expo Gate Milano last month. Easily movable on reused bicycle wheels, the public garden—called ‘Why not in the garden?’—was rolled...
Source: totalwomanscycling.com Published: June 18, 2014 Bike Washing Machine combines a stationary bike and washing machine so you can exercise at the same time as you wash your clothes. But hang on a second, can’t we do that already? I often flick on the washing...
Source: bbc.com Published: March 5, 2015 Prototype urinals have been set up “conveniently” close to the student union bar UWE A “wee-lectricity” experiment which could pave the way for urine to provide power in remote areas has been launched. The project...
Source: treehugger.com Published: August 29, 2012 © Laura Rudich Megan Treacy Oil spill cleanup can be a messy endeavor. With the Deepwater Horizon Spill, chemical surfactants and dispersants were added to the water to aid in collecting the oil, but they only helped...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: May 1, 2015 Photo credit: Shutterstock Lorraine Chow A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jain Irrigation Systems have come up with a method of turning brackish water into drinking water using renewable energy. With...
