BY: NADIA ZAIDI With over 1.3 billion inhabitants, China is the most populated country in the world. It also has one of the highest rates of pollution due to its densely industrialized cities. Factories, power plants, and vehicle emissions are…
Urban garden ideas: these urban garden designs will make your city green
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Here are urban garden ideas that will inspire you to create your own in your city. It doesn’t need to be said how important farms and gardens are. As more and more of the world becomes urbanized…
Eco-garden: how to garden organic
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Create an eco-garden instead of just a regular, ole garden. Okay, so you’ve built your dream garden in your backyard. It’s flourishing, it’s beautiful and it’s environmentally-friendly. But, is it? Just like with everything in life, it…
Tiny house rentals: The best of Airbnb
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The tiny house movement is exploding across the world. While some people have opted to buy their own tiny house, and others have opted to build their own tiny house, some people just aren’t ready to take…
Flying cars expected to be commercially available by the end of the decade
BY: DUSTIN BATTY The Jetsons has been giving kids dreams of flying cars since the ’60s, but the reality of aerocar technology has always been considered part of that vague, hopeful era known only as “the future.” Well, the future…
How Lush plans to use regeneration to save the planet
BY: RHIANN MOORE Lush recently launched the Spring Prize 2017 in their endless effort to save the environment from humankind’s relentless and destructive tendencies. Much like the Lush Prize before it, the award seeks to empower individuals, organizations and communities…
The Mad Russian of the Cariboo lived alone on an island for 15 years
BY: DUSTIN BATTY Isolated as he was, no one knows much about the man known by locals as the Mad Russian. His life both before and after his time in the Cariboo region of British Columbia is a mire of…
Taking photos of homeless people without their consent is not art – it’s exploitation
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY Recently a friend of mine asked if I would be willing to help her on a university paper she had to write. In post secondary education there always seems to be strength in numbers; we always like…
These eco-friendly bags are compostable, biodegradable and reusable
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Plastic bags are one the environment’s main enemies. More than one million plastic bags are used around the world every minute and they take years and years to actually break down. In an attempt to lessen the…
Solar power and electric vehicles to overtake fossil fuels by 2050
BY: DUSTIN BATTY The future looks bleak for the fossil fuel industry, according to a report recently released by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, which was working with the Graham Institute at Imperial College London. Despite predictions by BP, ExxonMobil, and…
How to travel Canada for cheap in 2017
BY: BROOKLYN PINHEIRO Canada was voted the best place to travel to in 2017, conveniently the same year that the vast country is celebrating its 150th birthday. There is no better time to check out the North without emptying your…
Graphene is the strongest material on Earth and it’s in your kitchen
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Graphene is one tough cookie. Not only are scientists trying to find a way to turn this much-touted wonder substance into a new way to build orbital structure, but they are searching for more and more…
Students across West Virginia build tiny houses for flood victims
BY: DUSTIN BATTY The tiny house movement has been growing steadily since the economic recession of 2008. According to The Economist, people were drawn to these diminutive abodes because they are much more affordable and environmentally friendly than full-sized houses.…
Study shows that dogs judge the morality of their owners
BY BROOKLYN PINHEIRO After a long day of spreading negativity through the world you walk into your apartment eager for your pooch’s unconditional love that you don’t get from anyone else because you suck. Surprise, your dog isn’t down to…
Oslo is giving their residents $1,200 to buy electric cargo bikes
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Norway has just announced another reason why it’s one of the best places on Earth. Earlier this month in Oslo, Norway, the government began offering its residents money to buy an electric cargo bike. Previously to this…
IKEA garden sphere: free plans for a sustainable garden
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Photos via The Growroom IKEA just released free plans for a sustainable garden and it’s beautiful. It’s probably safe to say that you or someone you know have IKEA furniture in your home. If you have had the…
A group of scientists just invented reusable paper that could help save the environment
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT According to the WWF, the world goes through about a million tonnes of paper per day, and it seems to be getting worse. In the past, all the average person has been able to do about it…
According to these scientists, our oldest ancestor literally ate shit
BY: PHILLIPE DE JOCAS It’s hard to believe that evolution – the great endless cycle of livin’, breedin’, mutatin’, and dyin’ – has gone on unabated for more than four billion years. In that time, fish have crawled out onto…
Car exhaust becomes ink with Graviky Labs’ new Kaalink device
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT Dangerous as it is, car exhaust doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. But one MIT engineer, Anirudh Sharma, is making the best of it with a new invention called the Kaalink, which gets its name from the…
This is the Titanic of turbines and it will blow you away
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Wind power isn’t quite the realm of dinky pinwheels and spindly turbines anymore. At its core, wind turbines run off a deceptively simple plan that produces clean and environmentally friendly energy from the breeze. Wind power…