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Burgers Made of Microalgae? Future food for thought
They're responsible for more than 75 percent of the Earth's oxygen supply, but often get no credit for it. Microalgae are single-celled organisms that photosynthetically convert carbon dioxide and sunlight into useful biochemical products, with oxygen as a byproduct....
Nigerian College Student Builds a $6000 Wind and Solar Powered Car
Segun Oyeyiola started with a Volkswagen Beetle and converted it into a fully renewable off-road vehicle. 8,000 miles away from Tesla’s Palo Alto headquarters, Segun Oyeyiola has managed to make a renewable car of his own on a smaller scale. The engineering senior at...
Biodegradable Sugar Cane Bottles To Replace Plastic Invented By South African Company
100% biodegradable sugar cane bottles are being manufactured by the Air Water company. The company introduced machines that make water from the air to South Africa about 12 years ago, and it has embarked on a "Zero Plastic, Zero Harm" campaign. Speaking to Kieno...
Company Turns Avocado Pit Waste Into Biodegradable Straws and Cutlery
Man figures out how to make bioplastic out of food waste, rather than food, making it as cheap as regular plastic. With all the single-use plastic bans coming into effect around the world, there is a demand for biodegradable alternatives. The trouble is...
Plastic Eating Bacteria Set To Revolutionize Waste Disposal
Few of us are likely to spend much time meditating on the problem of plastic, at least until a tranquil afternoon is violently disrupted by the vision of a stray Walmart bag sailing across the azure sky. Plastic-eating bacteria could be a solution to our plastic waste...
Pallets Made From Coconut Could Save 200 Million Trees A Year
Pallets made from coconut In the tropical landscape of peninsular India, coconut trees form a vital resource in everyday life. From extensive culinary use to generating a wide range of household items as by-products, coconut is virtually indispensable in Southern...
Thailand: Grocery Chain Replaces Plastic Produce Packaging with Banana Leaves
Plastic is replaced by banana leaves in a supermarket chain in in Chiangmai, Thailand. Doing its part to stem the tide of single-use plastics flooding into the ocean. While most supermarkets bundle their strawberries in plastic boxes, their corn in plastic shrink wrap...
Recycled Plastic Can Improve Our Roads And Clean Up Our Environment!
Recycled plastic roads are the future! This plastic road was constructed in Enfield, England. The world has a plastics problem Every minute the world buys one million of single use plastic bottles. We are not only using too much of it, but we also recycle far too...
Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions
Scientist: Trees are "our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change." Forest near Baka village of Mayos, Cameroon Fresh Air An ambitious new analysis of the world’s forests found that there’s space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees. A number that would...
How To Build A House That Is Cheap And Natural Disaster Proof
Every person on this planet can build a home without having to spend large amounts of money. Every one can build a house that can withstand natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, heatwaves or even floods. It might sound too good to be...
Man Invents Homemade Beehive To Save The Bees, This Is How You Can Make It Yourself
According to entomologists, beehives are disappearing at an alarmingly rapid pace, and this isn’t just affecting our honey supply. Without bees, a whole lot of the food we eat wouldn’t exist anymore; products such as almonds and cherries, for instance, are dependent...
Scientists Transform Sunlight Into A Liquid Fuel That Can Be Stored For 18 Years
It's hard to believe that we still use climate change-inducing fossil fuels when we have a sun that's bombarding our planet with plentiful, clean renewable energy on a daily basis. But fossil fuels do have one oft-overlooked advantage over solar power that has long...
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a New Forest
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up. The plan, which saw a juice company dump 1,000 truckloads of waste orange peel in a...
Salt Water Potatoes Offer Hope For World’s Hungry
A small field on an island off the Netherlands' northern coast promises one answer to the problem of how to feed the world's ever-growing population: potatoes and other crops that grow in saltwater. Every day, swathes of farmland somewhere in the world become unusable...
Cameroon Student Recycles Plastic Bottles Into Boats
Humanity has a plastic bottle addiction – people around the world purchase one million a minute, and many bottles wind up in the ocean instead of recycling bins. Cameroon-based nonprofit Madiba & Nature is pioneering a creative use...
How Old Cell Phones Can Help Save the Rain Forest
Yopher Whites spends a lot of time walking in—and thinking about—the forest, and how quickly we’re losing it. So much so that he’s gotten a black eye from being smacked by flying tree branches. But that’s just a small example of what the engineer is willing to endure...
Living Inside A Greenhouse in Sweden
You may wonder why a family chooses to build their house inside a greenhouse. If you read what the benefits are, you wouldn't want anything else. Growing fruits in the winter Being able to grow your own vegetables and fruit outside the season is already an art in...
