6 Shares SunPower is Giving Away a $16,000 Home Solar System Founded nearly 30 years ago in California’s Silicon Valley, SunPower has manufactured more than one billion solar cells and installed more than 4.5 gigawatts’ worth of solar energy around the world. That’s enough electrical energy to power Paris, France- the city of lights!- for an entire year. This winter, SunPower wants to make it easy […] More
6 Shares SunPower Could Get You Off the Grid, For Free There are plenty of reasons to take your tech off the grid, and SunPower could help you go solar with a $16,000 home solar pv giveaway! More
5 Shares Avoid Disaster Blues with Wet-location Emergency Lights Winter is already upon us in many parts of the US. Just because the threat of hurricanes and typhoons has lessened and thoughts have turned to holidays and new year’s resolutions, however, doesn’t mean that disasters can’t happen. Superstorm Sandy was a winter storm, as was Chicago’s famous snowpocalypse of 2011 (shown, above). In both […] More
4 Shares Water Theft Climbs in Drought-Stricken California The exceptional drought in California is driving up water prices and water theft, turning the West Coast into the Old West! More
5 Shares Water, 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 ambient air around it. As I type this, the company has plans to install 52 EcoloBlue atmospheric water generators in a first-of-its-kind, solar […] More
6 Shares These Restaurants Serve Food They Found in Dumpsters Sustainable restaurants in Australia and the UK are fighting food waste by sourcing the food they serve to customers from dumpsters. Really. More
8 Shares Growing a Garden in Oak Park Could Send You to Jail Meet Julie. Julie put raised garden beds in her yard after it was torn up for sewer repair. For thinking outside the box, Julie might be going to jail. More
5 Shares New Tool Quantifies Your Business’ Water Risk In a time when we’re experiencing an increasingly drier climate, with a booming population and growing demand on water supplies, water scarcity is a very real risk, not only to individuals and communities, but also to businesses that require water in their operations. Water is all too often undervalued and its market price is very […] More
6 Shares In Japan, They’re Farming With 99% Less Water This hydroponic farm in Japan cuts water usage by 99%! The farm occupies an abandoned Sony chip manufacturing facility in Miyagi prefecture, near where the earthquake and tsunami struck the country in 2011. It is the brainchild of Shigeharu Shimamura, a plant physiologist who was inspired by a vegetable factory he saw at the Expo […] More
7 Shares This Tiny, Off Grid Cabin Was Built for Just $300 Many Americans dream of owning a tiny, off the grid cabin in the woods- but it seems too expensive, right? This one was built for just $300! More
8 Shares When it Comes to Water, Don’t Waste What You Don’t Have I’m still thinking about my 4 Liters Challenge from a few weeks ago – it’s amazing how much we take a resource like water for granted! While a number of things I learned stand out, I constantly come back to turning on the water without even thinking about it – I had to catch myself […] More
5 Shares Your Pre-fab, Zombie Proof Cabin is Ready It’s Halloween, the zombies are coming, and it’s too late to start building up your defenses now. Luckily, you can buy a zombie fortress like, right now! More
5 Shares Clean water from oysters? You betcha. Oyster populations are waning, and the impacts could be more profound than the end of raw bars as we know it. How are oysters and clean water linked? More
6 Shares Did You Know: More Oysters Means Better Water? Oysters are filter-feeders. That means they suck in the water around them, filtering out the plankton and bits of dead animals and waste that they eat, then spit the water back out, free of that waste. The process feeds the oysters, produces food for humans, and cleans the water around them. Exactly how much these […] More
4 Shares Clean Drinking Water, From the Air Originally published by Insteading. With much of California experiencing record levels of “exceptional” drought, and with what little water there is available being tainted by the fracking industry, water security has recently gone from a “prepper” topic to a mainstream concern for many people inside and outside the troubled state. For the guys behind Molecular […] More
7 Shares EPA: Watersense Shower Heads Save 2900 Gallons Per Year Back in 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created “WaterSense” as a label for high-efficiency plumbing products that not only use less water, but work as well as “conventional” fixtures like faucets, toilets, and shower heads. That means that shower heads labeled with “WaterSense” have been tested for both spray force and water coverage and […] More
4 Shares What’s in My BugOut Bag? Books! Part 1 of the first “What’s in My BugOut Bag” series of articles focuses on the books that will help us get through the tough times. More
6 Shares Planetsave Considers the Benefits of Living Off the Grid We tend to think that living off the grid is always a good thing, but our sister site Planetsave wants us to think it through better. What do you think? More
5 Shares Live Ebola Map Helps Chart Your Course This live ebola map – with hourly updates – will help you keep track of the spread of this deadly disease in Africa, Europe, and in North America. More
7 Shares The Liquid of Life: How Your Body Uses Water Water is essential to life, as we know it, and while we all know we’re supposed to drink 6-8 glasses of clean water each day to stay “healthy”, we aren’t always taught about what those 6-8 glasses are really doing for us, or how our body uses water. Most of us, also, are totally unaware […] More
6 Shares Sustainablog Takes the 4 Liter Challenge (w/ Video) Hi, gang! It’s been a while since our last post, and since then this “4 liter challenge” thing has surged in popularity and then kinda died down. A few weeks ago, however, our good friend Jeff McIntire-Strasburg took on the challenge and documented his day in words and YouTube videos which he was kind enough […] More
6 Shares Ebola 2014: Solon, Ohio Closes Schools Amid Ebola Fears Schools close in Texas and Ohio due to fears that 2 students and an Ohio district staffer were on the same Frontier airlines plane as Ebola-infected nurse. More
6 Shares Hiker Finds Creepy Abandoned Town in TN Mountains Hiking in Tennessee‘s Great Smoky Mountains Park last year, Jordan Liles stumbled on a creepy, forest abandoned town that is sure to give you nightmares. More
5 Shares Anti-terrorist Parking Structure is Not Messing Around This simple parking lot structure is helping keep US buildings safe from terrorist attacks, by utterly f***ing up anyone who tries to drive through it. More
4 Shares Report Highlights Vulnerability of NY Subway A new report suggests that hurricane Sandy did a number on NYC’s subway system, and is continuing to do damage to tracks and walls. More
9 Shares Living in a Dumpster, For a Full Year – Meet the New 1% Environmental science professor Jeff Wilson believes that American homes have gotten too big. To prove it, he’ll be living in a dumpster. For a year. More
13 Shares California Passes Neighborhood Food Act California gov. Jerry Brown signed the Neighborhood Food Act into law last week, asserting the rights of individuals to grown produce on their land. More
6 Shares Living Through a Zombie Apocalypse Could Be Awesome This short for Boost Mobile shows off some of the silver linings that might come along with life after (what scientists might call) the zombie apocalypse. More
6 Shares Engineer Turns Trailer Into Luxurious, DIY Camper Bill Southworth took a 16′ trailer and turned it into the DIY camper of his dreams, complete w/ solar panels, extra large water storage, and satellite TV. More
5 Shares Composting Goes Hard Core – in Prison A new, rehabilitative work program in Washington State prisons is teaching inmates the messy art of composting, and greening up most of their food waste. More
