Resources for Keeping our Planet Blue
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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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