Rain gardens are increasingly popular with homeowners and municipalities and are mandatory for many communities nationally. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Wow check out this awesome home built our of natural earth and recycled materials. One can only hope that this type of architecture catches on and we all shift our idea of what housing should look like.

Faced with rising political attacks, hundreds of climate scientists are joining a broad campaign to push back against congressional conservatives who have threatened prominent researchers with investigations and vowed to kill regulations to rein in man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. Co-founder Scott Brusaw has made some major steps forward since a first visit back in 2007, so he was visited again earlier this year for an exclusive update on the project, including the first ever video recorded of the Solar Roadways prototype!

These are led by Dr Adam Harvey, from the School of Chemical Engineering & Advanced Materials, and Dr Gary Caldwell, based in the School of Marine Science & Technology. One will look at algal growth and the other at oil extraction.

Mobile Telecommunications firm MTC is providing technical support and equipment to the Namibia’s National Wind Resource Assessment Project. The collaboration follows a commitment by both parties to use renewable energy to curb the African nation’s growing energy deficiencies.

Home appliance maker Electrolux, better known for their vacuum cleaners, has launched a new campaign aimed at promoting its new environmentally-inspired endeavor called “Vac From The Sea“. Essentially their plan is to send collection teams out to these large plastic garbage patches located in the middle of the world’s oceans and collect plastic that will then be used to form the bodies of vacuum cleaners.

Ever wonder if there is a better place to buy your food than the local mega supermarket? Have you ever shopped at a local coop? Well if you haven’t Raw Sangha would like to suggest that you look into it. Supporting local coops is one of the most kick-ass things you can do to support your local community, neighbors and farmers.

The study, recently published in the journal Nature, focused on potato farming. Conventional methods of farming and pest control rely on a range of chemicals that may be effective at killing pests, but which also can leave lingering and unwelcome consequences in the food and environment alike.