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How Buildings of the Future Will Conserve Water
As things evolve, so will the future of water conservation.
Eco-designer turns landfill waste into ‘plasma rock’ — a sustainable, all-purpose material
Landfill waste is given a second life by blasting it with plasma hotter than the sun. Now that's a project we love!
You shouldn’t forget about recycling bathroom items
When home recycling is concerned, the kitchen reigns supreme. Here is where most of the waste gets disposed and where all the recycling bins can be found, but there's another...
Give ugly veggies and fruits a second chance – they’re just as tasty
According to the United Nations, 20 to 40 percent of fresh food is thrown away by farmers because they don't look as appetizing as they should to sell. Besides looking...
The App that could fight food waste
According to the EPA, Americans waste some 30-40 percent of all the food they use. Even not considering the poorest areas such as Africa or SE Asia where food is...
Giant 500 km wide ocean whirlpools affect climate
Image: Sergey Kryazhimskiy Giant whirlpools or mesoscale eddies, as described in scientific literature, can grow between 100 km and 500 km in diameter, forming around islands where...
Silly Putty ingredient helps improve batteries
Photo: momfabfun.com When you think about Silly Putty toys, the last thing that comes to mind is high-tech. A group of researchers, however, used a novel...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse is irreversible; to cause 10 feet sea level rise
Various measurements have captured the West Antarctic ice sheet changing very rapidly in the region where it flows into the Amundsen Sea. Credit Landsat The West...
3D printer used to build 10 homes in one day in China
Photo: Winsun New Materials Say what you will, but the Chinese are clearly the fastest builders in the world, though sometimes quick haste makes to waste....
Condensing towers could make water from thin air in the driest places on Earth
Artist impression of how two such tower might look like in a desert community. Photo: Architecture and Vision The Namib desert is one of the vastest...
Toyota confirms confirms fuel cell launch for 2015; zero local emissions and 500-mile range
Toyota has officially announced that it will launch a hydrogen fuel cell-powered car in 2015, but said sales volumes would be limited. The company announced they will use a high-density fuel stack...
This sealed bottle garden hasn’t been opened since 1972 – still doing just fine
It's 1960, a nice Sunday, Easter day. David Latimer decides to do something special to mark this day, and he starts a bottle garden in his ten gallon carboy. He...
Middle school student shows the US government could save $400 million by switching fonts
How important are details, when it comes to saving money? Any accountant will tell you: really important. A middle school student in Pittsburg thought the same thing - he discovered...
Solar powered toilet locks greenhouse gases and increases crop yields
One of the 16 teams involved in a collaborative project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that aims to help some of the 2.5 billion people around the...
Why Energy Conservation is Important
Although Americans hear on a regular basis about how their energy use affects the environment and how the country is facing an energy crisis as energy resources fail to meet...
Growing the World’s Tallest Vertical Garden in Sydney
Patrick Blanc is a French botanist, typically wrongly credited as the inventor of the vertical garden (aka. Green Wall, Botanical Brick), a title which belongs to Professor Stanley Hart White...
Seattle plans for a city park with edible plants – free for anyone and everyone
Forget meadows. Forget grass. Forget sterile, monotone parks with no plant diversity. Seattle's vision of an urban oasis is becoming more and more a reality: a seven-acre plot of land...
First fully 3-D printed house looks incredible
Possibly the most exciting technological innovation of the decade, in terms of the impact it's projected to have, 3-D printing never seems ceasing to amaze us with its unrivaled potential....
A word on plastic and reusable bags
A while ago, I was telling you about the big garbage island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and why you should use and reuse canvas bags instead of...
Biochar stoves could save millions of lives, improve soil and air quality
Open-fire stoves represent the biggest domestic environmental threat today, killing 3.5 million people a year—more deaths than caused by malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. But now, cookstoves that produce biochar could...
