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Sachets that Create Clean Water
We’re lucky to turn on the tap and have clean, drinkable water flow right out whenever we need it, but not everyone is so lucky. In much of the developing world, water is a scarce, precious resource. Women tend to carry the burden of water collection, traveling miles each day to carry water home for her family. And even then, that water is not always clean.
Would you live in a hemp house?
Confession: I have a crush on Asheville, North Carolina. My sister-in-law lives there with her family, and it’s one of my favorite places in the whole country! I could eat at Rosetta’s Kitchen every day of my life. One of the things that I love most about Asheville is that it’s a southern town on the cutting edge of sustainability. It’s incredibly vegan friendly, most of the restaurants compost their food scraps, and it has a strong local art scene. Asheville is also home to the first hemp house in the U.S.
Entering the Age of Alternative Renewable Energy Systems
Renewable energy systems, or energy development, is the process of creating sufficient primary sources of energy, and also secondary forms of energy, from which societies can supplement their use of fossil fuels. The delivery of energy services and the production of many manufactured goods have caused technologically advanced societies to become increasingly dependent on external energy sources.
Pee Power! Urine-Powered Generator Could Change Lives
We’ve talked about park lamps fueled by dog poop, and now a group of teens in Africa have developed a generator that runs on urine.
Spotted: Plastic Roof Made from Reclaimed Soda Bottles
Here in the developed world, we’re lucky to have lots of eco-friendly and efficient roofing options, but in the third world most of those choices are out of reach. Researchers at the New York Institute of Technology are looking to change that and address some of the single use plastic problem at the same time with their plastic roof concept.
