Drilling Begins on Louisiana Sinkhole
Texas Brine Company began drilling near the Louisiana sinkhole on Saturday to determine the cause of the sinkhole. Crosstex Energy, a nearby operator of another storage cavern, submitted a “worst case...
View Article3-D Mapping Hurricane Isaac Flooding
The USGS is using a new technology to 3-D map urban flooding from Hurricane Isaac. The technology is terrestrial lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) and it will be used in a few urban areas in...
View ArticleAquaponics at the University of Hawaii
Aquaponics is such a great idea. The fish and vegetables lived in a closed system, which means the water is basically reused over and over. Fish supply nutrients to plants and plants do the same. The...
View ArticleRogue Geoengineering Experiment Off the Coast of British Columbia
The rogue geoengineering experiment off the coast of British Columbia has raised a lot of questions. The experimenters claim they did it to help the salmon fisheries. Critics say the lack of scientific...
View ArticleReducing Waste with Solar Panels that Dissolve in Water
Solar panels that can be dissolved in water could reduce a future waste problem The post Reducing Waste with Solar Panels that Dissolve in Water appeared first on Blue Living Ideas.
View ArticleUsing Wind to Solve the World’s Water Crisis
The world is on a precipice of a global water crisis. Today, 1.1 billion people struggle to access safe water on a daily basis, and experts say by 2025, this number will increase to three billion. A...
View ArticleWater Savings Kit: All-in-one from Niagara Conservation
If you’re a regular reader of Blue Living Ideas, you’re savvy about your water. But even if you are, and have done a full water audit of your home’s water consumption, you’re likely still missing a lot...
View ArticleWhat Does 2014 Hold for the Mining Industry?
The mining industry is one of the most established and multi-national sectors in the world and its importance to the global economy cannot be over estimated The post What Does 2014 Hold for the Mining...
View ArticleWater, From Thin Air: Atmospheric Water Generator
A few weeks ago, we covered a company called Molecule New Water Technologies and their EcoloBlue atmospheric water generator– a product that they claimed could pull pure, crystal clear water from the...
View ArticleToshiba to Get Energy From the Ocean
The well known Japanese company Toshiba and its perhaps not as well known co-patriate IHI have been tapped to pilot a new ocean energy project that will deploy a phalanx of underwater turbines that...
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Montana Craft Brewers Get Entrepreneurial, Communal With Glass Recycling
We Americans are doing much better in terms of recycling materials, according to a new article from Yes!: the EPA notes that we recycled 65 million tons of solid waste in 2013. We’re trying to do the...
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Allowing Waste Pickers Access To A Competitive Recycling Market [Video]
We’ve dug into the volatile recycling market quite a bit lately, but mainly focused on it impact on large companies in the United States.
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Waste From Sugar Beet Processing Perfect For Strengthening Materials? [Video]
I’m not a materials scientist, but from the little I’ve learned about the topic over the years, I feel pretty confident claiming that a combination of strength and low weight seems to be the holy...
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London Startup Plans To Heat Homes With Used Coffee Grounds
Do you throw used coffee grounds in the trash? That’s a genuine waste, as they’re good for all sorts of things: from fertilizing your plants to
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Waste Water Treatment With Corn Cobs: A Google Science Fair Winner
While some of us deal with our home’s waste water through grey water systems or other technologies, most of us “flush it and forget it.
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The Waste Biz: Using Pig Poop To Recycle Roofing Shingles
North Carolina's Bio-Adhesive Alliance may have found a good use for the billions of pounds of pig poop we produce each year. More
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The Portable Food Waste To Energy Plant: The HORSE [Video]
Just over a month ago, I took a look at the argument that a landfill augmented with technology for capturing biogas may be a better alternative for organic wastes than separate pick up and composting/
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On-Site Plastic To Fuel Recycling: A Better Alternative?
At the end of August, I took a look at plastic to fuel processes as
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New Jersey Digs Into Its Biomass Waste; What It Finds Isn’t Pretty
Back in 2014, I took a look at Sweden’s remarkable rate of recovery for its trash:
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Reclaiming Plastic And Fiber From Dirty Diapers: Knowaste
By David Guion If you have read sustainablog at all carefully, you know that any waste can become raw materials for making useful products. Consider
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