Recycling Just Got Smarter: Meet the Tech That’s Turning Trash into Rewards In a world where recycling often feels more like a chore than a meaningful step toward our well-being, some ideas are flipping the script—making it fun, useful, and fully connected with today’s tech. That’s exactly where The Cube comes in: a smart machine …
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Urban Eco-Friendly Gardens: The Future of City Farming For most city dwellers, visiting a farm requires a trip out to the countryside. However, in more and more of the world’s capital cities, farms are just an elevator ride away, located just a few floors up. In cities like Singapore, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Montreal, and …
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Urban Spaces and the Rise of Home Gardening: How to Grow Potatoes in Vertical Towers As more people move into urban areas, space becomes a precious commodity—one that’s becoming increasingly hard to come by. With shrinking backyards and limited land, there’s a growing trend to return to the simple and healthy habit of growing food …
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Food Shortages, Poverty, and a Climate Crisis: One Green Roof at a Time Hunger, food scarcity, and poverty are growing at an alarming rate in nearly every country around the world—and much of it is being fueled by climate change and global warming. But what’s really going on? Well, for starters, once-fertile lands are becoming …
How to Build an Edible Roof: A Sustainable Guide to Green Roofing and Urban Farming Read More »
Just like how we treat our planet, we all know that water will be a precious resource in the future. However, we don’t need to wait that long to realize that approximately 780 million people around the world still don’t have access to clean drinking water. To tackle this global issue, researchers at the Swiss …
Innovative Water Purification Filter: A Game-Changer for Clean Water Read More »
The consumer society we’ve created, especially the “use and throw away” mentality, is leading us toward a significant environmental problem. One of the biggest challenges we face is the amount of waste we generate, specifically plastic. In fact, in the last ten years, we have produced more plastic than in the entire 20th century. And, …
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To reduce the environmental pollution our planet is facing, ideas and initiatives like the one demonstrated by a group of young Peruvians are essential. These young innovators have created a model for manufacturing and reusing organic products that allows them to make plates from banana leaves. Materials like Styrofoam and other petroleum-based products are not …
Banana Leaves for Making Plates: A Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Alternative Read More »
Eco-Design: A Sustainable Approach for Your Business Eco-design is considered a comprehensive process, part of a sustainable design system that focuses on the product’s functionality, reducing environmental impact, and providing social benefits. When planning to design something tangible or intangible, it’s essential to consider every aspect of its lifecycle, even from the very beginning—from extracting …
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Since February 13, 2022, Chile has been enforcing Law 21.368, which regulates the use of single-use plastics and plastic bottles. So, what’s this all about? In simple terms, it bans the use of plastic straws, stirrers, cutlery, and skewers, as well as any foam containers in food establishments like restaurants, cafes, or soda fountains. This …
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