Source: sacbee.com Published: January 3, 2015 Scott Thompson, program director for ReSoil Sacramento, transports scraps collected from Selland’s Market Cafe. Co-founder David Baker says ReSoil recently passed the 60,850-pound mark for its “pre-consumer waste” pickup....
Source: goodnewsnetwork.org Published: January 12, 2015 In November, more than 300 LED lights were illuminated by a Dutch company that makes electricity from harnessing the power of living plants. This was the first commercial installation for Plant-e, a company that...
Source: treehugger.com Published: January 12, 2015 © Seedles Margaret Badore Seed bombs began as a fun and friendly tactic for greening abandoned lots in urban spaces. “Guerrilla gardeners” throw balls of seeds and fertilizer into fenced-off spaces that are otherwise...
Source: cbsnews.com Published: May 8, 2014 Over 300 million tons of plastic is produced annually, and only about 3 percent of it gets recycled. The rest is simply trashed, taking centuries to degrade, or left adrift in the ocean. An estimated 24,000 tons of...
Source: treehugger.com Published: December 31, 2014 Screen capture Wakati Megan Treacy The Wakati isn’t a refrigerator, but it does keep fresh fruit and vegetables from spoiling quickly without refrigeration. In developing countries where electricity is scarce,...
Source: greenworldrising.org Published: December 19, 2014 Green World Rising is a series of short films on the state of climate and solutions to the climate crisis. All the films of Green World Rising are for global distribution, free to the public and hold a Creative...
Source: theguardian.com Published: December 19, 2014 The coast of Caithness, Scotland, near where the tidal project will be based. Photograph: Albaimages/Alamy MeyGen project could power nearly 175,000 homes through network of turbines on seabed at Ness of Quoys off...
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com Published: December 16, 2014 A fascinating article has just appeared on National Geographic’s website which tells how one entrepreneur has found a way of providing fuel and saving local trees from being felled. Sanga Moses grew up...
Source: grist.com Published: January 16, 2014 Shutterstock Nathanael Johnson When UC-Berkeley ecologist Whendee Silver first heard about the idea behind the Marin Carbon Project, she was pretty skeptical. The group wanted her to study the land they were ranching to...
Source: takepart.com Published: December 12, 2014 The portable bathrooms are painted to match graphics commonly seen in Indian culture and incorporate tiles and murals from Indian painters to help reduce the societal stigma of using restrooms. (Photo: Facebook) An...
