10th January 2011 By Naimul Haq – aljazeera.com Much of Bangladesh’s rural population lived without electricity until low power solar systems transformed their lives. The sun...
Category - Energy & Resources
Can the Desert Sun Power the World?
December 14th 2011 By Leo Hickman – guardian.co.uk During the summer of 1913, in a field just south of Cairo on the eastern bank of the Nile, an American engineer called Frank Shuman...
A Deliciously Resourceful Town Aims For Total Food Self-Sufficiency Within 7 Years
By Vincent Graff dailymail.co.uk Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too. Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of...
Living in an Underground Home
12th December 2011 By Merle J. Alix MotherEarthNews.com Here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we start getting snow in mid-November, though it doesn’t usually amount to much more than an...
Single Lady Transforms Her Urban Garden into a Productive, Organic, Tropical Paradise
By Nicola Chatham – permaculture.org.au You don’t have to know her street number to find Rosina Buckman’s place. All you need is the street name. Winner of the Edible...
10 Great Reasons to Eat Local Food and Pick Your Own Where Possible
Eating local means more for the local economy. According to a study by the New Economics Foundation in London, a dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy. When...
13 Year Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough
By treehugger.com One would be excused for suspecting that Aidan Dwyer, said to be 13, is in fact a small, very young-looking, 37-year-old college-educated con-man of the highest order. Such is...
PART 2 – How 1 MILLION Pounds Of Organic Food Can Be Produced On 3 Acres
By Andy Whiteley Co-Founder of Wake Up World I recently posted an article, How 1 MILLION Pounds Of Organic Food Can Be Produced On 3 Acres, which featured the work of farmer Will...
Electric Air – Device Captures Ambient Electromagnetic Energy
(By ScienceDaily) — Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite...