Teaching young children for 22 years, Cathy Bache is convinced that outdoor education is the way forward. So, she plans to open Britain’s first totally open-air nursery in Scotland! Yes Scotland, one of the coldest areas of the country.
Bache’s…
A handful of tiny and cheap sensors — motes — can be scattered around for measuring all types of things present in the environment — from chemicals in the soil to scents suspended in the air.
Till date, the motes of the dust particles’ size…
Smart Dust: Hair-breadth-sized tiny, cheap sensors for detecting environment! Read More »
Ideally for use on farms and in other large domestic buildings in an environment-friendly way, researchers will be creating the first small-scale biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) system.
Till date, though there are a number of…
First domestic-sized biomass-powered combined heat and power system! Read More »
Clubs no longer remain an entertainment hub! Global warming along with its foreseen devastating consequences has led the farmers in north-west Victoria to form a biodiesel club — Sunraysia Biodiesel Club! The goal of it is to produce cheaper…
Bio-diesel club to produce cheaper fuel from recycled fish and chip shop oil Read More »
Here is a well merging of Amazon Indians’ traditional knowledge of the rainforest with Western technology. The goal behind it is not only to conserve forests, but also help the most remote jungles’ Amazon Indians to maintain ties to their history…
An increasing use of RFID tags in the medical sector and logistics is increasing the need for electricity. This proliferation is raising the demand for alternative environment-friendly power source – to contribute towards curbing global warming….
Enzyme-based printable biofuel cells to convert renewable fuels into electricity! Read More »
Dump those painkillers like morphine aside! You yourself can generate a natural painkiller and that too, up to six times more powerful than the former – it’s your saliva!
The substance yielded by human saliva — dubbed opiorphin — may spawn a new…
Human saliva: A Natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine! Read More »
When the world is moving towards conscious ‘greening’ of the earth, combating global warming, industries from automotives to electronics have banged on the ‘environment friendly’ buzzword for minting money. Never mind, until it servers towards…
Fuel Cells to power Casio’s Notebook PCs! Read More »
EPA Assistant Regional Administrator Steve Tuber said,Denver International Airport is not only one of the busiest aviation facilities in the world; it is one of the greenest. With a state-of-the-art Environmental Management System that covers…
Though the growing demand for wood in the paper industry, has compelled the sector to turn from dwindling forests to other sources of raw materials — like cereal straw, reeds, bamboo or sugar-cane bagasse – the environment did not get its due…
Non-polluting paper-producing process: Making paper from plants, sparing the trees! Read More »
