The Human-Powered DIY Washing Machine: 5 Plans
Need a DIY clothes dryer? That’s easy: string up a line between two trees, fence posts, or whatever you’ve got. A DIY washing machine, however, is just a bit more involved… but as I’ve discovered...
View ArticleiFixit and the Right to Repair
You deserve the right to repair your own car. You deserve the right to jailbreak your own phone. You deserve the right to fix your own stuff. This is the manifesto of the iFixit revolution, which...
View ArticleReusing Cigarette Butts, Filters, and Ashes
If you ask the average person what cigarette waste like old filters and ashes are good for, most folks would say, “Nothing.” But if you believe in sustainability, all wastes have a higher purpose. It...
View ArticleWaste 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.” Once that toilet flushes, or water otherwise runs down the...
View ArticleCan the World's Largest Water Pump Stop New Orleans From Getting Pummeled by...
Anyone who witnessed the horror of Hurricane Katrina knows that New Orleans could use some serious protection from the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain. The levees currently installed in the city...
View ArticleCan Desert Shrimp Farming Rise Up Against Climate Change?
When I hear shrimp farm in the Arizona desert my first thoughts are not about biofuels and sustainability. But to hear Gary Wood, owner of Desert Sweet Shrimp near the state’s Gila Bend, tell it, the...
View ArticleMassive Australian Oil Rig Spill to Continue for Two Months
A massive oil spill occurring off the northwest coast of Australia is predicted to continue for two months before the leak is plugged. An oil rig in the Timor Sea, owned by Thai company PTTEP,Â...
View ArticleNew Self-Contained Portable Wastewater System to Treat Military Waste
A professor of engineering has created a new portable water reclamation system which could radically change the way the military deals with its wastewater at forward operating bases and has potential...
View ArticleThe Water Grid and Water Markets: Innovative Ideas From Going Green West
The Going Green West Conference from Always On last week in Sausalito, California had hundreds of venture capitalists and CEOs from around the country talking cleantech. One panel discussion, The Water...
View ArticleMitigating Chesapeake Bay Pollution by Making Algae Biodiesel
The Chesapeake Bay has long been plagued by pollution, and in fact a large portion has been declared a “marine dead zone“. This largest estuary in the United States is fed by 11 large rivers that...
View Article$4.4 Million for Diver Who Invented WaveRoller Inspired by Underwater Door...
It was a Eureka moment for Rauno Koivusaari, and he started to work on harnessing the powerful motion for generating underwater wave power. Now, fifteen years later, the EU is funding the WaveRoller...
View ArticleTracking Water Changes From Space
If you see a three pointed star moving along the sky next time you look up, it may be measuring the moisture content of the soil you’re standing on. In early November the European Space Agency (ESA)...
View Article26 Gallons of Water Discovered on the Moon
A “significant amount” of water has been discovered on the Moon by NASA scientists. The news follows last month’s lunar crash involving the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (Lcross),...
View ArticleAward-Winning HydroVolt Makes a Splash in Micro Hydro
In talking about renewable and sustainable energy sources, most people think about brand new technologies. In truth, many renewable technologies are improvements and updates of energy options that have...
View ArticleNew Zealand Turns Waste Into Energy
It may not smell like roses, but it could become a great sustainability love story. Solray Energy of New Zealand has found a way to turn sewage into biofuel. At what they call the world’s largest algae...
View Article2009 Environment Award for Ozzi Kleen Greywater Recycling Systems
Wastewater recycling for both domestic and commercial use is becoming more and more of an issue around the world, and one Australian company is making great strides in the recycling and reuse field...
View ArticleRenewable Energy through Wastewater Treatment
In the continuing evolution of renewable energy innovation, Dayyhulme WwTW of Manchester, England one of the largest wastewater treatment works in the UK, is upgrading to generate electricity from...
View ArticleFirst Images From European Space Agency's SMOS
Last November the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) with the mission of improving our understanding of the Earth’s water cycle. The goal of SMOS mapping...
View ArticleImagine H2O Water Innovation Prize Winners
Imagine H20 is a national non-profit whose mission is to inspire and empower people to solve water problems. I wrote about their water innovation competition for startups last October, and this week...
View ArticleNY Proposes Recycling Cooling Water at Nuclear Power Plants
When one thinks of nuclear power, images of cooling towers rising into the sky come to mind. Water is needed in nuclear power production in order to cool the “waste heat” generated and in case an...
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