San Diego’s making the ultimate power move. Home to 1.4 million residents, the southern California city is forming its own community choice program with a goal of 100 clean energy by 2035. By creating an alternative to the area’s investor-owned utility, San Diego Gas and Electric Company, San Diego will become the largest city in the state to adopt […]

Perhaps going to work in the morning wouldn’t be such a drag if the workplace was designed by People’s Architecture Office (PAO). The firm is responsible for off-the-wall ideas like a pedal-powered RV and ventilation shaft dwelling, and has now revealed an unusual office complete with running track, garden and a seating area meant to resemble a mountainside. The office […]

Even though widely-consumed fish such as Nile tilapia may frequently be raised on farms, the food that they eat still contains ecologically-important fish that are caught in the ocean, depleting wild stocks. That’s why Dartmouth College scientists are now looking at replacing the fishmeal in that food with existing algae meal. Nannochloropsis oculata is a marine microalga that’s already being […]

The Ocean Cleanup is finally ready to set sail on its maiden voyage. After several weeks of testing, the 2,000-foot-long system is heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where it will begin hacking away at the massive floating trash heap. The Ocean Cleanup officially launched System 001 on Saturday, September 8 in a much-hyped ceremony at the San Francisco […]

In Bangladesh, switching to clean energy is unattainable for the large portion of the 65 million people who don’t have access to the grid and must rely on costly alternatives like diesel generators and kerosene lamps. Of the 17 million homes in Bangladesh that are cut off from the electric power system, 3 million rely on energy from domestic solar […]

Taipei-based design practice BIAS Architects recently completed “Greenhouse as a Home,” an experimental installation that reinterprets the living areas of a traditional house as five climatic zones. Created for the 2018 Taoyuan Green Expo, the project invited the public to experience the buildings with all five senses, from feeling the climatic differences to eating fresh vegetables hydroponically grown in the […]

A new study from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London says that fungi are capable of expediting the breakdown of plastic waste. The aspergillus tubingensis fungus was featured in the State of the World’s Fungi 2018 report, which also documented that fungi are optimal in producing sustainable building materials and capable of removing pollutants from soil and wastewater. Whereas plastic […]

More than 30 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, the Chernobyl area is once again producing power. From the (somewhat literal) ashes of the Nuclear Power Plant springs the Chernobyl Solar Power Plant, which was officially launched with an opening ceremony on Friday. The Solar Chernobyl project is headed up by the Ukranian energy company Rodina and Enerparc […]