Summer 2013 LEAF Academy at CDS Kudos to the wonderful Drew, Greg, Kelsey, and Jesse leading this LEAF! Children’s Day School Reflections Week 1 FOOD Working Farm Farmers’ Market Food Preparation Organic, Whole and Processed Foods Glide Kitchen Green Waste...
June 10, 2013 San Francisco, CA – Matter of Trust Eco-Center opens its doors at 3338 17th Street (near Valencia) in San Francisco’s vibrant Mission District. A 501(c)3 ecological public charity since 1998, Matter Of Trust is expanding its online / fieldwork...
On August 14, 1941, at the 15th Annual Dearborn Michigan Homecoming Day celebration, Henry Ford unveiled his biological car. Seventy percent of the body of the cream-colored automobile consisted of a mat of long and short fibers from field straw, cotton linters, hemp,...
On Monday Abengoa said it plans to build a $110 million factory in Glendale that will turn city garbage into electricity. Chicago-based power company Vieste Energy will own the planned factory, and Abengoa will build it and run it for 30 years. Construction will take...
Contemporary Energy’s Solar Kettle uses the sun’s rays to boil water on the go. The lightweight thermos-like device is perfect for camping or picnics, allowing users to make hot beverages or sterilize water without electricity. Using fold out reflectors, it ...
The OX would be shipped in pieces, packed six to a standard shipping container (which hold only two standard trucks, Norman says). The vehicle then emerges, Transformer-like, from a box formed by its own trailer area. Assembly is an involved process by Ikea...
Concentrating the sun’s ray onto solar photovoltaic (PV) modules requires walking the fine line between optimizing power output and not literally melting your very expensive super-high-efficiency solar cells. A team led by IBM Research seems to have found a way...
The brainchild of Rob Cotter, a refugee from the automotive industry, Organic Transit’s inaugural offering is the tear-shaped ELF: a tricycle built with a 45 percent recycled aluminum frame and equipped with a weatherproof 80 percent recycled composite shell, an...
A huge thank you to all the schools who sent in art to Earth Day San Francisco 2013 at Civic Center Plaza! Shout out to Saint Thomas the Apostle School in San Francisco for sending in the most art work!
Back in 2011, researchers at MIT developed an artificial leaf technology that could produce energy from water and sunlight. The artificial leaf is essentially a silicon solar cell that has different catalytic materials bonded to each side that allow it to split water...
