Every week, the garbage truck will show up at your home or apartment complex and empty the cans or dumpsters, repeating its process on the same schedule week after week. This is an efficient process in terms of collection, since it allows entire blocks to be emptied of their trash in one swoop, but it […]
Going green spans a wide range of endeavors from unusual and offbeat to unique and conservative, and not to be left out of the mix, Ford has been working on its own various environmentally-friendly projects. In its latest move, the auto maker has teamed up with Coca-Cola in a partnership to use the latter company’s […]
Facebook’s soon-to-be-opened data center in Altoona, Iowa will be 100% wind-powered, the company has announced. Electricity will be supplied by MidAmerican Energy in nearby Wellsburg, IA. It will be Facebook’s fourth proprietary data center. The wind plant is being built concurrently with the data center. Originally, MidAmerican was going to build a nuclear facility, but […]
There are lots of reasons not to love smog. It stinks. It makes it hard to breathe. It gives children cancer. And, for certain countries, that decreased visibility makes it really hard to spy on your citizens. We’re looking at you, China.
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Green transportation in China just got creepier thanks to an abandoned, ivy-covered van that’s become a national social media sensation.
The team behind the world’s first 3D printed automobile are getting
ready to roll out their latest prototype, the URBEE 2, and they need
your help to create the car’s signature insignia.
There are two major drawbacks to computer printers. One is that they use
toner and the other is that you run through an awful lot of paper. Even with recycling that is a huge impact on the environment. Wouldn’t it be great to have a printer that didn’t use either product? While the invention of the PrePeat Inkless Printer is fairly new over the past few years, the attempts to create it started back in the 1970s.
The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture last week announced that it will be offering $4.5 million in grants towards research of robotics in American agriculture What this basically means is simple: in the near future, we’re going to start seeing robots on the range.
For most people recycling food waste has always meant tossing it into the compost heap and waiting for it to break down. That is all about to change after Ivan Cornejo, a materials engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, found a way to take the minerals from garbage like banana peels, egg shells, and rice husks and transform them into clear glass.
Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has designed everything from smart highways for the United Kingdom
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