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Restaurants Find Companies to Take Their Spent Oyster Shells to Restore Oyster Reefs
For everything that Hong Kong is and has become, a quiet constant among the rattle of construction and the sprawl of concrete, steel, and...
Ecofriendly Tabletop Furniture is Being 3D Printed in Milan from Famous Italian Food and Drinks
Milan may be the new center of eco-chic design on the Italian Peninsula after a company "took a risk" and invested in a way...
Fishing Nets and Carpets Can Be Recycled Molecularly Thanks to Genius Chemist and Brand New Catalyst
A team of chemists has developed a low-cost, non-toxic catalyst that can easily deconstruct the complex plastic polymers of fishing nets, promising that a...
Teen Creates LEGO Charity to Collect and Wash Old Bricks to Give Away New Sets–For 3,000 Kids So Far
Charlie Jeffers has been playing with LEGO since he was 4 or 5 and credits one of the most famous of all toys for...
470,000 Glass Bottles Turned into Coating for Slashing Heat – Just Won a 2023 James Dyson Award
In Hong Kong SAR, air-conditioning to drive away the muggy sub-tropical heat accounts for almost a third (31%) of total electricity consumption.
In this megalopolis...
Bill Gates Backs Novel Merry-Go-Round Wind Turbine: Half the Cost and Better for Landscape Than Giant Towers
Bill Gates has backed a novel wind power system by investing in Airloom Energy, a company that has developed a carousel-style wind turbine.
The Microsoft...
Scientists Engineered a Bacteria to Eat Plastic Bottles and Transforming Them into Useful Liquids
Plastic-chomping bacteria could transform plastic bottles into make-up, drugs, and perfumes, according to a new study.
University of Edinburgh scientists engineered a simple E. coli...
Your Halloween Horoscope (With Costume Suggestions!) From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
California Passes Right-to-Repair Act Guaranteeing Seven Years of Parts for Your Phone
GNN has reported often on improvements in consumer's right to repair products, from phones to cars, where for decades it's become harder and harder...
Concrete Made 30% Stronger by Adding Waste Coffee Grounds–Cutting Emissions and Mining in the Process
Engineers in Australia have found a way of making stronger concrete by utilizing coffee grounds, giving the roast a “double shot” at life and...
Old Wind Turbines are Repurposed into Footbridges Capable of Supporting 30 Tons
Wind turbine blades set to be landfilled or incinerated, are being turned into footbridges that can hold the weight of a 30-tonne digger.
Currently, there...
Company Devises Ingenious Method of Repurposing Old Wind Turbines: ‘The perfect time’
With the first generation of wind turbines well into a period of decommissioning, questions about what to do with the massive fiberglass blades is...
Man Used 80 Discarded Vape Batteries to Power an Electric Scooter Proving the Importance of E-Waste
A clever graduate has used 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter—and to make a point about waste.
The 23-year-old Brit says disposable vape...
Historic Homes Being Turned into Heritage Building Materials by These Awesome Savannah Women
In Savannah, Georgia, a female-led non-profit works in hard hats and pink high-vis vests in a gradually growing business of reuse and recycling—deconstruction.
Deconstruction is...
All Kinds of Trash is Turned into Valuable Graphene That Can Cut Environmental Impact of Concrete by a Third
Imagine if you could turn a material that costs $100 per ton into one that costs thousands of dollars per pound—it's the kind of...
Paris Olympics Gets 11,000 Stadium Seats Made of Recycled City Plastic
Spectators of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be watching the aquatic events from seats made of plastic collected in recycling bins from...
Indian Man Quits Tech Job and Becomes Environmentalist–And Turns Infamous Dump into Green Oasis
After leaving his IT job, a man from Mangaluru started greening city parks, growing food forests, and saving trees destined for the chop.
Describing his...
Scientists Are Recycling Wastewater to Reclaim Valuable Phosphorous to Put Back in Soil
Scientists have taken pollutant phosphorus from wastewater and infused it into a soil superfood called biochar to really "close the loop" on several widespread...
Gigatons of Carbon Could be Captured in Offshore Underwater Volcanoes: A Boon for Climate
A new study concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the...
Shredded Diapers Could Replace 40% of Concrete Sand in Construction–Without Affecting Strength
Seeking to find sustainable solutions to low-cost housing in Indonesia, scientists in the world's third-most-populous nation hypothesized that used diapers could, if one can...