The BioBot 20 is a small, portable waste oil processor designed to be used on a table top or work bench. It’s capable of converting used kitchen oils into environmentally-friendly fuel that can then be used to power your biodiesel-ready car rather than clog your...
A 16-year-old from Mississippi fought one of the largest beverage companies — and won. The young vegan researched an ingredient in Gatorade to see if it was healthy. Brominated vegetable oil, she learned, had already been banned in Europe and elsewhere after...
Wrap Star Program The Wrap Star Program promotes reduction and use of compostable materials. Most manufacturers use too much packaging for their products. Let’s band together to encourage companies to rethink their choices. If the public chooses to buy products that...
Created for last fall’s Muttersholtz Archi<20 Festival, the Hotel for Bees is a 20 square-meter wooden outdoor pavilion that features a honeycomb-shaped configuration. The openings can be filled with twigs, straw, reeds, bark and various foraged materials in...
Serving nearly nine years in the Navy taught Fresno native Elizabeth Perez much about the critical link between clean energy and national security. It’s a message she’s been bringing to the San Diego area since 2009 when she launched her own business connecting...
For the past three years, TreeHugger has partnered with UNEP to host an essay contest and send the winning writers to join TreeHugger and UNEP in covering the World Environment Day festivities around the world. In the past, they have traveled to Kenya, India and...
With an abundance of sunshine, it’s no wonder that some of the most innovative and successful solar power installations are found in California. Recently, the City of Perris, located in green energy-friendly Riverside County, announced that it would use solar power to...
Matter of Trust has partnered with Dr. Rosa Ten to assist this small learning factory in the mountains of Peru. Come into our eco-center to learn more about this exciting program and to see how you can get involved. Peruse the beautiful goods produced by the talented...
Sick of your batteries dying at the very moment you need to make a call, flick on a flashlight, or find your position on a GPS when you are lost in the outdoors? Introducing the Voltmaker– an innovative and rapid kinetic electricity generator inspired by a fan or...
Matter of Trust is a strong advocate for apprenticeship programs and recognizes the importance of exposing youth to new and innovative career paths. We want to ensure a future where large inner-city populations make leaping advances in green building, eco-packaging,...
