Source: resilience.org Published: January 6, 2016 Picture: fruit walls in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. By Kris De Decker, originally published by Low-Tech Magazine We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 5, 2015 Unlimited renewable power lies below geothermal regions like this one in Iceland. Photo credit: Milan Nykodym / Flickr An ambitious project is being launched to drill deep into the Earth’s crust to harness super-heated...
Source: grist.org Published: June 30, 2015 By John Light Three of the world’s biggest polluters — China, Brazil, and the U.S. — all announced new strategies to tackle climate change today. China unveiled its long-awaited pledge for the U.N. climate talks to be held in...
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 16, 2015 Megan Treacy Fresh off Greenpeace’s report card last month that showed Amazon lagging far behind other tech companies when it comes to renewable energy generation and transparency about how it plans to meet energy...
Source: designboom.com Published: February 11, 2015 This device enables you to use renewable energy anywhere. All images courtesy of WAACS Rotterdam-based consultancy studio WAACS has created the ‘rollable solar charger’ to enable green energy usage on-the-go. The...
Source: nytimes.com Published: January 17, 2015 By Diane Cardwell Before dawn one morning in October, a handful of Americans gathered at a lonely pier on Samso, a small Danish island about four hours from Copenhagen. Bundled in layers of fleece and wool, the...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 20, 2014 Ann Makosinski, a 15-year-old Canadian girl who developed a flashlight that is powered by the heat from a human hand. by Mark Boyer From a sleeping bag that charges your gadgets to entire buildings warmed by body heat,...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: April 21, 2014 Scientists in South Korea have come up with a way to use the mechanical energy of flowing water as a sustainable energy source. The research shows how the energy potential of flushing toilets can be utilized to help...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: April 2, 2014 Brandon Baker Honda and the University of California, Davis aren’t particularly known for constructing homes, but an ambitious project places the two entities at the forefront of designing homes capable of producing...
Source: nbcnews.com Published: December 17, 2013 This concentrated goo of algae can be converted into a bio-crude in less than an hour, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The day when planes, trucks and cars are commonly...
