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NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if...
Image credit: Good The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition…....
Image via Engadget Two new foldable solar chargers from AmbienTech have hit the market. But…They look a little odd, right? That’s because they’re the first mobile chargers to use spherical solar cells. Each cell has around 1,900 spheres...
Image: MIT Could Store Power at 100x More Energy/Weight Than Lithium-Ion A team of scientists at MIT has discovered a new way to generate power with carbon nanotubes. In a paper titled ” Chemically driven carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves...
Photo via Sheerman-Chase I can’t wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can’t. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative...
Photo via dieselboii e-Waste is finally starting to go mainstream and the issue is making its way to television viewers. While some examples of e-waste on TV are horrifying, like the A mazing Race episode that made light of dumps and the extremely...
“Orthographic aerial photograph of Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, in Kingston, Tennessee, taken the day after the event.” Photo: Public domain CO2 is Important, But Not the Only Thing David Roberts over at Grist has a...
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Photo: Monica M. Davey/Feature Photo Service for IBM 13 Billion PET Plastic Bottles are Thrown Away Each Year Certain things are harder to recycle than others. While it’s relatively easy to make a new aluminum can out of an old aluminum can,...
