Biodegradable Plastics Are A Sham When It Comes to Ocean Waste

When it comes to the continuing ocean waste problem, the biodegradable plastics solution is a sham. This was made clear by Jacqueline McGlade, chief scientist at the UN Environment Program during the UN environment assembly in Nairobi. Most plastic is extremely durable, leading to large plastic debris and “microplastics” to spread via currents to oceans

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Intelligent Waste Bins To Spruce Up Your Home Recycling

Kitchenware brand, Joseph Joseph has just added intelligent waste bins to its collection. This is all thanks to a London design studio, PearsonLloyd. They arrive in the market at a time when home recycling programs are gaining momentum and food waste management becomes a major concern. These Intelligent Waste units stack vertically but still provide

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Get Your Very Own Green Hobbit House

You can now live in an eco-friendly hobbit hole right here in the United States thanks to Green Magic Homes! The company operates worldwide and is bringing Tolkien’s hobbit houses to life with the greenest perks you can ever imagine. Apart being just about anything between durable, flexible and waterproof, they are obviously green-roofed, non-corrosive,

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PFOA Contamination In Amherst Well Water

Seems like the water contamination woes are sadly only beginning. This time it’s Amherst on the hot seat as the latest community found with contaminated water. And it’s pretty much a dejavu because it involves a former Textiles Coated International (TCI) plant. State officials have detected disturbing levels of PFOA in four private wells within

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Quick & Simple Ways Of Going Green In Your Home

Going green in your home doesn’t have to be as difficult as it sounds. Neither should it be as expensive as most people think. When it comes to the general Go-Green mentality, the reduce-reuse-recycle mantra is often skewed towards the latter – forgetting the important equally important action: ‘reduce’. Each home can actively work on easing their carbon footprints

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Living Off-The-Grid With A Tesla X Model

Living off-the-grid is a dream for every self-respecting home-owner let alone prepper. I mean, what’s better than ditching the bills and the craziness of relying on state services when you could find ways to rely on your own efforts? As we’ve already seen, a couple of unique solar powered innovations can allow you to be off-grid

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Make and Recycle Paper At Home

There are many ways to ‘go green’ but some are usually overlooked at the expense of – well- your wallet! And paper is one of them. Paper recycling that is. And to be more specific, paper recycling at your home. A lot of us know that paper is recycled. Great. But what is not common

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Mussels Keep Water in Minneapolis Safe From Contaminants

It looks like Minneapolis and Moline are safe from potential lead poisoning of the Flint kind due to the kind of measures deployed at the Minneapolis Water Plant. A water quality official says the two cities are the only ones in the US using a unique method to keep the water safe. And it’s not really

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Wind Energy Conversion Without Blades Or Rotation

A bladeless wind energy converter. Yes, it sounds a little bit crazy because conventional wisdom dictates that wind energy is best, if not only, generated by blades rotating in the wind. But it was also conventional wisdom that told us that the earth was flat. So away with it for now. It’s the same thing two designers

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A Water Purifier That Generates Electricity and Creates WIFI Connections

Imagine a large machine that can purify gallons of water and at the same time generate electricity – as well as create WIFI connections. Now stop imagining because it does exist. And it’s called Watly. All thanks to one Marco Attisani. You see, Marco envisioned a machine that could solve three large challenges that all cities

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Make Your Home Energy Efficient With These Tips

A lot of things run our lives. A lot of other things run our checkbooks. Energy use in your home shouldn’t be one of them. Unless you are a secret scientist or chemist and running a secret laboratory, of course. But if you are reading this, I bet that’s not the case. State-provided, solar, wind,

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Solar Panels Could Soon Generate Power From Raindrops

Solar energy is indeed the cleanest and most abundant renewable energy source available. But it is not very versatile in places and in seasons that don’t get much sun. Hence, Chinese researchers have come up with innovative technology that can turn raindrops into energy. The new solar cell has been developed by researchers in Qingdao,

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State Curing A PFOA Problem That Should Have been Prevented

Seems we just can’t get enough bad news about the country’s lingering water crisis. The PFOA water contamination in Vermont that’s making headlines is certainly not new to America. It’s just a slight opening atop a huge can of worms. Just like the other crises, it indicates a lot of expediency in the local, state

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Next Steps In Electrifying WasteWater and In Particular, Urine

Everyone in this day and age needs energy. But in most parts of the developing world, it is scarce. In the developed world, the challenge is particularly that it needs to be cleaner and more renewable. But what’s the one thing that the entire world has in abundance? Wastewater. And think about human waste i.e.

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New Eco-friendly Technology for Water Purification Developed in India

Imagine a water purification process that’s eco-friendly and can be duplicated in civic water treatment plants. Well, it could be a reality pretty soon. Indian scientists have developed an eco-friendly nanotechnology for water-softening applications. This is obviously great news. It may mean prevention of various water crises around the US and would definitely be a better way for the

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Is New Jet Lag Cure Viable for Survival Purposes?

When dealing with a potential disaster situation, there’s a good chance that you will also find yourself painfully tired from exhaustion and lack of sleep. Some researchers may have found a way to fight jet lag, which seems like it should work well in any situation where you didn’t get proper sleep the night before.

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NSA to Combine Cybersecurity Divisions

Although the plan to bring together the offensive and defensive NSA programs is in direct opposition to security suggestions from a President’s Review Group given right after Edward Snowden leaked information, the NSA is going to go through with the plan to do just that. What this means to you is that the nation’s cybersecurity

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Developing Countries Invested More in Renewables Than Developed Countries in 2015

The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016 report was released last week (March 24). It’s the 10th edition of the United Nations Environment Programme’s annual report, launched by the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). The reports notes that the annual global investment in new renewables capacity,

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New Solar Material Could Bring Solar Energy Through Glass Windows

A new material named perovskite, which is a crystalline mineral made of calcium and titanium, might be the revolution that the solar energy needs to move to the next level. It can recycle light, it’s cheap, lightweight and easy to produce. Something that may make it the worthwhile stand-in for silicon-based solar panels. It took a long 30-year

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Some More Drama Surrounding The Flint, MI Water Crisis

As if the Flint MI water crisis itself wasn’t bad enough. Now we have more drama surrounding the case. Just days before the federal government opened an investigation into the crisis, someone sneaked into the vacant City Hall office full of documents tied to the embattled Michigan city’s water system and surprise surprise, some key documents went missing. Okay,

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