a primer on Electrochaea's storage process my NTD.TV Think about the sources of carbon-based energy--coal, petroleum, propane, natural gas. One thing they have in common is that they are tangible, transportable products that are not consumed in...

Tracy's Dogs, a different, non-profit, organization with the same mission Depending upon where you live, the puppies you see at your local adoption center may not be local strays...but rather may be imports from elsewhere in the country. There are...

Hawaii Dairy Farm proposal near Poipu, Kauai Those of us who buy milk in the continental U.S. have the experience of checking dates on milk cartons, and knowing that fresh dairy products are stocked multiple times a day in many supermarkets. But dairy...

cartoon about the full energy cost of electric cars YouTube Full disclosure: I am an electric-vehicle owner with solar roof panels living in sunnier-than-normal Southern California. So I am pretty much in the booster section for alternative energy...

image from Rockford Register Star blogs What global warming contributor is going to get worse and why? Air conditioning becomes increasingly important as the world gets warmer (whether or not you believe the warming is cyclical in nature or caused...

John Oliver 6/18/17; (trigger warning: swear words) Coal miners have been promised by the current administration that they will be fully employed, as climate considerations will no longer influence federal energy decisions. But the full employment does...

image from the Daily Mail Asphalt in roads is made of oil...a diminishing natural resource. But a waste product that is growing in volume is plastic--clogging landfills and oceans...and taking its time to decompose. A start-up company in Britain, MacRebur...

image from bee line hemp wick Wes Card is a beekeeper. He cares for his bees and harvests their honey for several months of the year. But, come spring, he ships his bees to Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California--to put the bees to work...

photo credit: Florian Plaucheur/AFP/Getty Images In the image above, a worker at a Shell plant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, is taking a picture of the Afam VI power plant . Both Royal Dutch Shell and Eni S.p.A. (an Italian oil company) have...

image by Andy Teebay : English installation by Dong Energy of Denmark Even though solar energy gets a lot of press, over four times as much wind energy is produced in the United States. Wind is everywhere--and only limited areas have a significant amount...

image from Second Chance Recycling Most folks take their mattresses for granted...until they need a new one. Not only does a new mattress represent a major investment, the recycling of old mattresses presents both a problem and an opportunity. The...

YouTube video via SmartTech: Tesla Glass Roof Tile Solar intro Elon Musk always seems to have new ideas--especially in the realm of two of his interests: space travel and solar energy. This week he launched his new solar tiles. Instead of being perched...

image from www.sustainablebrands.com JetBlue recently announced a 330 million-gallon deal over 10 years, with SG Preston , to purchase 4% of its total fuel supply in biofuels . According to Sophia Mendelsohn, the sustainability point-person for JetBlue...

image from science news. org Nuclear FISSION is the atomic process underlying the atomic bomb and nuclear energy production facilities. The downside of this process is the radioactive waste given off. Also, the tremendous heat produced has to be mitigated...

a PowerPoint lecture explaining the Permanent Income Hypothesis --posted before the theory was discredited In 1957, Milton Friedman published a paper on the Permanent Income Hypothesis ( PIH ). In it, he posited that consumers spend based NOT on the...

Video thumbnail of Swedish study It seems to be an employee's dream to work fewer hours in a day--and get paid the same thing. But how does that work from the employer side of the equation? A Swedish study in Gothenburg, now in its second year...

video of Olleco , a company that won an entrepreneurship prize in Dec, 2014 for monetizing food waste Companies have been recycling cooking oil from restaurants for several years, primarily for use in diesel engines. But recently, entrepreneurs have...

video from 2014, before the Poseidon plant was open The desalinization plant in San Diego is now open, and it supplies 10% of the city's water needs. Since the water source is the Pacific Ocean, it is a much more reliable source of water than the...

NBC Nightly News , May 2, 2016, via You Tube The sustainability movement axiom is " Repair, Reuse and Recycle ." But a new word has been coined that combines all three: " Upcycle ." In this process, new products that have value-added...

image from www.pcmag.com There is an alternative for technology-users who are: --- trying to save money --- dealing with the problem of a dead phone...and an insurance replacement cost of $150 --- wanting to try out an Android phone, but don't...

portion of a TED talk by Jae Rhim Lee on her Mushroom Burial Suit The entrepreneurial business advice to " build a better mousetrap " is venturing into the burial business. With sustainability as the driving force, new products and businesses...

Old school wisdom, based on historical facts from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, held that, from the Industrial Revolution onward, economic growth was correlated with increased pollution--first from coal-fueled engines to gasoline, diesel and jet...

Do you live in a house? Do you use a desk or dresser that cost less than $300? Then you are probably using plywood or particleboard, much of which is manufactured overseas. I was curious about the manufacture of these products when I ran across the video...

Protesters in support of solar energy, outside of the Nevada Public Utilities Commission; image from online version of the Marketplace podcast. Solar City , with the support of citizens interested in both the environment and in saving money, recently...

The Honest Company was co-founded in 2011 by actress/model Jessica Alba and the business team of CEO Brian Lee, COO Sean Kane and Chief Product Officer Christopher Gavigan. As she stated in a 2014 interview in Inc. Magazine , Alba had a strong motivation...