Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 4, 2018 Boeing Airplanes / Twitter By Lorraine Chow Virgin Atlantic has successfully flown and landed a commercial flight using aviation fuel partly made of waste carbon gas from a steel mill. The Boeing 747 took off from...
Source: spectrum.ieee.org Published: November 23, 2016 By Andrew Silver Sanivation’s poop-based fuel briquettes finish cooling and drying on racks. Photo: Sanivation In August 2015—after a couple of years of testing—a company in Kenya began commercially...
Source: theguardian.com Published: November 8, 2017 A wind farm off the coast of Sussex. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images Damian Carrington Until recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change – floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations – seemed to be...
Source: treehugger.com Published: November 6, 2017 © UC Santa Cruz By Derek Markham A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis...
Source: treehugger.com Published: November 1, 2017 © University of South Florida By Megan Treacy Researchers at the University of South Florida College of Engineering have developed a new technology that will provide developing areas with a source of clean energy,...
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: October 31, 2017 What’s the big deal with evaporation-driven engines? Water-strapped cities with growing populations and energy needs could benefit the most. Greater Phoenix, for instance, is served by this reservoir and...
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: October 19, 2017 Aimee Stapleton and other researchers at the University of Limerick have found that lysozyme—in tears, saliva, mucus, milk and chicken eggs—accumulates an electric charge when squeezed. (Sean Curtin, True...
Source: treehugger.com Published: August 18, 2017 © Tact Conseil (used with permission) — Francis, Richard, and Daniel Duchemin, storeowners, sit in their new rooftop garden By Katherine Martinko Talk about slashing food miles; ‘fresh from the roof’ is as local as it...
Source: mnn.com Published: August 15, 2017 By Noel Kirkpatrick A new report on the most sustainable metropolitan areas in the U.S. shows that we still have a long way to go. In September 2015, leaders from around the world adopted Agenda 2030. This document...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 1, 2017 By Jasmin Malik Chua Don’t toss your bagel wrapper in the trash just yet; scientists at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland say they have discovered a way to turn used aluminum foil into a catalyst to create...
