Chevron’s third pipeline spill in Utah in as many years on Monday released hundreds of barrels of diesel, polluting a river, coating beavers with the slick, and leading to the closure of a state park and the evacuation of campers. Dozens of cleanup workers are mopping...
The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from...
Vapur introduced several new products at the 2013 International Home + Housewares Show that expand their line of BPA-free “Anti-Bottles” – including a new filtering technology that safely removes 99.99% of bacteria and organic matter (it can make even river water...
March 1, 2013 KIDS’ ART TO DECORATE SAN FRANCISCO CIVIC CENTER PLAZA FOR EARTH DAY SAN FRANCISCO… Earth Day 2013 will be celebrated Saturday April 20th in Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco. Matter of Trust is participating by collecting environmental theme...
December 12, 2012 YOU SHAMPOO BECAUSE YOUR HAIR COLLECTS OIL… AND CLASSROOMS CALL THAT THE Hair Matters PROJECT! SAN FRANCISCO… Matter of Trust, an ecological public charity, is helping to revolutionize and green oil spill cleanup through innovative thinking that...
Having good indoor air quality is very important, especially since many of us spend so much time inside. NASA did a study to find out which plants were best to filter the air of the space station, and the agency’s findings are available to all. Read more...
Ecover, the green cleaning brand, said on Thursday it will use plastic waste retrieved from the sea to create an entirely new type of sustainable and recyclable plastic bottle. The Belgian company is working with plastic manufacturer Logoplaste to combine plastic...
New York-based designer Aaron Mickelson has developed a packaging design concept he calls “The Disappearing Package,” complete with a series of working prototypes that illustrate how packaging waste might be eliminated by letting the product itself be the...
Rotating, sun-tracking, solar-power-gathering islands in on Lake Neuchâtel in western Switzerland. This concept was the brainchild of Swiss research Thomas Hinderling at the Centre Suisse dElectronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) back around 2008. The focus then was...
Bees…by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought…know that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle, and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material. — Pappus of Alexandria Bees have not studied tessellations theory....
