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They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. This adage especially held true for wine growers. The necessity was the growing concern and the battle against chronic water shortages. Water, and in sufficiently large quantities, is the life blood for vineyards. Though the entire world is engrossed in different stages of water crisis, [...]
You might have heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That almost continental sized accumulation of plastic debris situated in remote waters between California and Hawaii. Now, you can hop over and see its cousin – on the Atlantic Ocean. The growing garbage patch on the Atlantic has been ignored till now.
Though, the Atlantic patch [...]
I bet you wouldn’t normally eat food that has been grown in body waste (read – excreta). But that’s just the solution, a Swedish entrepreneur has developed. It’s a biodegradable plastic bag that’s a single use pouch for your nature’s calls. Thanks to some simple chemistry gets its second life as fertilizer for crops.
It seems [...]
Google is well known for its search engine technologies. But one part of its business also has to do with energy, especially energy of the renewable kind. It has been conducting research in different kinds of sustainable energy. In a latest development, Google has unveiled a new mirror technology that it hopes could better the [...]
The Bloom Box could be the first innovation to capture mass imagination, if its focus in popular media is to be believed. Will it become truly iconic, something like an iPhone for the environmental evangelists? Or will it flatter to deceive, like the Segway?
At a press conference yesterday, Bloom Energy unveiled their plans for manufacture [...]
We have taken a look at e-waste and the perils it represents. From what exactly is e-waste and how we should start handling it to save its insidious effects on the environment. With the explosion of technology and its tangible forms in terms of electronic devices, the graph of e-waste is not going to plateau [...]
Armies around the world are known for their green fatigues. And the modern army is seeking out new ways to reduce its environmental ‘bootprints’. Take Jordan for example. An army that has been in the middle of the Arab-Israeli conflict is taking some serious steps towards going green.
It is an exemplar effort on their part [...]
Dams have an effect on the eco-system. This fact is well documented and also behind the opposition that triggers every anti-dam protest. Now a new study says that dams create more than normal rain around the vicinity of their catchment area. This weather changing force can also propel more drastic effects like storms.
Dams serve to [...]
The two schools of thought are having a raging debate. Should we allow human efforts to scale down temperatures take effect or should we ramp up artificial means to do the same? The latter is termed as Geoengineering and it is almost futuristic in vision and grand in scope.
What is Geoengineering?
Geoengineering is the deliberate [...]
The Vancouver Winter Olympics has got its first gold medal winner. The ice skating ring has been considered the best when it comes to environmental friendliness. That’s also an opinion shared by the athletes who will be competing on it.
The Richmond Olympic Oval is going to be the centerpiece of the Vancouver Olympics. The [...]