Today we are introducing It’s Good This – a new effort aiming to raise awareness of good things people are doing around the world. The blog’s mission is to highlight progress in critical issues like human rights, education, affordable internet and freedom of expression for all. Would you like to join in on the goodness?… Continue reading It’s Good This: Raising Awareness for Issues Facing Our Community, Environment and World
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Does Talking to Plants Help Them Grow? Tweet at One to Find Out #talktoaplant
If you spoke to a plant, would it hear you? While that may be a difficult question to answer, researchers are testing the effectiveness of an audio stimulus on plants, powered by live tweets! Join Mythbusters at The Explosive Exhibition in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to put the theory to the test.… Continue reading Does Talking to Plants Help Them Grow? Tweet at One to Find Out #talktoaplant
SXSW Eco Live Stream: Featuring Innovative Solutions Taking Us Beyond Sustainability
SXSW Eco is a conference where professionals come together to solve complex challenges facing civil society, the economy and our mother planet. The three-day event runs from October 7 to October 9 in Austin and hosts an international audience of thought leaders and decision makers from the public, private and academic sectors to discuss potential… Continue reading SXSW Eco Live Stream: Featuring Innovative Solutions Taking Us Beyond Sustainability
These Boots are Made for Walking, Forever: Sustainable Shoes That Last You for LYF
Imagine your favorite pair of shoes kept on kicking for life? Forever, ever? Sounds like the good LYF, right? That’s exactly what Aly and Beth Khalifa envision. The pair aims to “establish the new cutting edge of sustainability” by creating sustainable products that can easily be repaired or broken down and recycled by anyone, starting… Continue reading These Boots are Made for Walking, Forever: Sustainable Shoes That Last You for LYF
Dutch Wind Turbine Sale Sets World Crowdfunding Record
Setting a new world record for crowdfunding, Dutch households purchased a wind turbine in just 13 hours through Windcentrale, a company that facilitates cooperative wind turbine purchases.
The Weatherman Wants Your Smartphone Data: Creating Hyperlocal Weather Reports through Crowdsourcing
The weatherman has competition, and it’s from a phone app. WeatherSignal, an Android app developed by Dutch scientists, tells the weather by crowdsourcing temperature readings from the sensors that keep smartphone batteries from overheating. Since smartphones are everywhere, WeatherSignal might one day let meteorologists make hyperlocal weather reports without building weather stations on every roof.… Continue reading The Weatherman Wants Your Smartphone Data: Creating Hyperlocal Weather Reports through Crowdsourcing
Earth Photo Collage: What 1,400 People Waving Looks Like From Saturn
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what about a picture made up of 1,400 smaller ones? And what if these pictures combined to form the shape of our mother Earth? Out of this world right? Well, that’s where the basis of this collage came from. Saturn to be more specific. People from around… Continue reading Earth Photo Collage: What 1,400 People Waving Looks Like From Saturn
The Test-Tube Burger, 3D Printed Meals and 4 Other Foods that May Change the World
It is estimated that 9 billion people will occupy the planet by 2050. Since our current means of food production do not produce nearly enough food for these additional two billion people, it’s essential that we adapt our ways to more sustainable methods of food production. “We must embrace technologies that help farmers to grow… Continue reading The Test-Tube Burger, 3D Printed Meals and 4 Other Foods that May Change the World
