Youth Activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Wants People to Pay $10 a Month to Fight Climate Change
Photo by Lukas Budimaier on Unsplash By Joe McCarthy “This is about today. It’s not about future generations. Our existence is being threatened.” Xiuhtezcatl Martinez has been fighting to stop climate change since he was six years old. He’s engaged in nonviolent civil...
ECOVATIVE – Mushroom Packaging – 100% Home Compostable
While researching on new alternative packaging possibilities, I came across a material, built from a growing mushroom - MycoComposite™ - developped by ecovative, an American producer of alternative materials. They grow materials made from agricultural...
Paris Introduces 32 More Sites for Urban Farming
By Emilie Baliozian Paris is famous across the world for its food, art and romance. But let it be known that Paris is also a leader when it comes to dedicating public and private land to urban farming. The city launched its Parisculteurs initiative in 2016 with the...
Business Leaders for Climate Action
About BLCA Business Leaders for Climate Action is a network of forward thinking businesses, associations, and industry leaders calling for Massachusetts to put a price on carbon. Carbon pricing is quickly becoming “the new normal” across the country and the globe. In...
Jane Goodall gets awarded the Environmental Peace Prize 2019
Outstanding Environmental Peace Award 2019 The Luxembourg Peace Prize for Outstanding Environmental Peace seeks to recognize sustainable development, environmental governance, natural resource management, and environmental conflict management from an ecological...
charity:water – providing access to clean water for everybody
Our Mission charity: water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries 663 million people live without clean water. That’s nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide, or, twice the population of the United States without...
Urban Terrazzo – new materials gained out of demolition waste
Whenever an old building has to be demolished or its core removed, an enormous amount of demolition waste is produced. What seems like a pile of rubble, which usually ends up on our local dump sites, can actually be the beginning of a great new material story ... ...
Transparent Solar Panels Developed at Michigan State University
photo source: Richard Lunt/Michigan State University - no copyright infringement intended Imagine a city that’s actually a vast solar energy harvesting system. A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a technology that can turn transparent...
Art Project “In Your Face” against microplastic in cosmetics and cleaning products
Photo Source: Ranga Yogeshwar: Physiker, #Scientists4Future - Luisa Neubauer: Akivistin #FridaysForFuture - Dieter Hallervorden: Schauspieler © Saskia Uppenkamp Project “IN YOUR FACE” 50 Beaches – 50 Faces Art meets science, meets politics! We...
Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests to bounce back
An intersting article by MONGABAY A new study has found that lowland tapirs spend more time in degraded forests than in pristine Amazon rainforest. They also defecate and deposit three times more seeds in these degraded areas. The results indicate that tapirs may help...
A library full of abandoned books
The library, located in the Çankaya district of Ankara, was founded after sanitation workers started collecting discarded books. For months, the garbage men gathered forsaken books. As word of the collection spread, residents also began donating books directly. ...
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2019
WHEN Monday, May 13, 2019 - 2pm WHERE Auditorium, CITÉ DE L'ARCHITECTURE ET DU PATRIMOINE, 7 AVENUE ALBERT DE MUN - 75016 PARIS Symposium Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™ 2019 with the conferences of the 5 laureates The Global Award,...