Netherlands Is The 1st Country To Open A Solar Road For Public Use

Source  – collective-evolution.com – The world’s first solar bike lane is soon to be available for use in the Netherlands! The bike path that connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer is a 70-meter stretch of solar-powered roadway set to open for the public on November 12th, 2014. The new solar road, which costs…

Compostable tower made of fungi & agricultural waste to rise in NYC

Source – foodfreedomgroup.com – We’ve seen the amazing versatility of biologically-based bricks, or “bio-bricks” — be they made from bacteria, sand, mushrooms or even urine and wool. Now New York City-based design studio The Living will be building a tower made out of cornstalks and mushrooms for the annual summer festivities hosted by the Museum…

Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future

Source – resilience.org – Pioneers of the Deep Future, Authored by Various Authors Edited by Samuel Alexander , Amanda McLeod –  This book is framed by the realisation that consumerism – that is, the high consumption way of life which defines the most ‘developed’ industrial societies – has no future. Consumer lifestyles have no future…

The Talmud of Jmmanuel: the original teachings of Esu (Jesus) Immanuel

Source – fourwinds10.net – “The Talmud of Jmmanuel are the original teachings of Esu (Jesus) Immanuel of 2000 years ago, as recorded by Esu Immanuel’s disciple, scribe and closest friend, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples. These writings were preserved by Esu’s son Joseph, who carried them back from India at Esu’s death, and…

Sweden Is Now Recycling 99 Percent Of Its Trash – Here’s How They Do It

Source – truththeory.com/ – Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. It’s what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial, is that Sweden burns about as much household…

Societal Shift: Schools Begin Teaching Kids How to Grow Organic, Sustainable Food

Source – naturalsociety.com – Some schools leave an open door for the likes of Monsanto to creep in, infesting young minds with propaganda lies like ‘GM is needed to feed the world.’ Other schools take their classrooms outdoors, learning about vermiculture, organic growing techniques, the importance of soil health, and the damage that pesticides and…

Teenager Invents Water Purifier That Creates Electricity With No External Power Source

Source – trueactivist.com – ast week, True Activist published a story about a 15 year old who invented a shoe insole that creates electricity while you walk. His device was a submission for this year’s “Google Science Fair” which features a number of brilliant inventions, many of which were created by teenagers and young children.…

10 Young People Who Are Changing the Food System for the Better

Source – themindunleashed.org – Food Tank | Innovations in agriculture don’t just come from veteran environmentalists or food industry heavyweights. In fact, many incredibly inspiring projects are the creations of youth and young people around the world. Food Tank is excited to highlight ten young foodies who make us more hopeful about the future. 1-2.…

Open Source ‘Solar Pocket Factory’ Can 3D Print a Solar Panel Every 15 Seconds

Source – goldenageofgaia.com – Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein, two young inventors based in the Philippines, are taking their passion for clean free energy and developing a way to make it accessible and cheap for everyone. These guys are working restlessly to provide a product that could be used by practically anyone to make homemade…

Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Trash Per Day

Source – goldenageofgaia.com – A large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor the past month, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction. It’s called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, and though it moves slow, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds of trash.…

Baking Soda – True Enemy Of The Pharmaceutical Industry

Source – whydontyoutrythis.com – No-one will believe the idea that something so cheap and simple such as Baking Soda can exceed the effectiveness of even the most expensive pharmaceutical drugs… If you don’t believe me… take a look at this. At one stage it was common knowledge that baking soda could easily cure a common…

Sydney Installs Machines That Offer Bus tickets In Exchange For Recycling

Source -.trueactivist.com/  – New machines have been installed in Sydney, Australia that rewards people for depositing their empty plastic bottles or cans. Each machine can hold up to 2,000 containers before they automatically email the council informing them when it is full. Currently 15,000 bottles and cans are littered or thrown into landfill every minute across Australia.…

Colourful ‘solar glass’ means entire buildings can generate clean power

Source – theguardian.com – British firm develops colourful, transparent solar cells that will add just 10% to glass buildings’ cost A solar power company capable of “printing” colourful glass that can generate electricity from the sun’s energy announced a £2m funding boost on Tuesday. Oxford Photovoltaics, a spin-off from the University of Oxford, said the…

Elon Musk To Build World’s Largest Solar Panel Plant

Source – ecowatch.com – Elon Musk’s alternate-energy aspirations don’t end with Tesla’s electric vehicles. Musk is also chairman of SolarCity, a firm responsible for three times the solar panel installations as its closest competitor. Along with executives Peter Rive and Lyndon Rive, Musk announced this week that the company will create a solar plant that…

Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Trash Per Day

Source – earthtechling.com – large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor the past month, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction. It’s called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, and though it moves slow, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds of trash. The…

Designed to power small homes and apartments, can the “Archimedes” solve the world’s energy problems?

Source – vr-zone.com  – Renewable energy is not necessarily free, as it does come with some costs, in terms of money spent for equipment, and other environmental costs. For example, windmills do not operate at 100 percent efficiency, because the windmill structure itself blocks the movement of the wind, and the moving parts are subject to…

Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system, study finds

Source: telegraph.co.uk – Fasting for as little as three days can regenerate the entire immune system, even in the elderly, scientists have found in a breakthrough described as “remarkable”. Although fasting diets have been criticised by nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing new white blood cells,…

Can Permaculture save the World? – “…On two acres I produced enough food to feed more than 300 people – 49 weeks a year”

Source: ingienous.com – Below is replicated in it’s entirety a letter from Permaculturist David Blume that shows the potential of Permaculture to compete with agriculture. David has decades of highly successful realworld permaculture experience. He wrote this insightful letter in response to a woman at ATTRA who said something like “Of course you couldn’t feed…

Nation’s roadways can be turned into functioning solar panels, say inventors

Source: solarroadways.com – How much electricity can we really produce? – We’re in the process of updating this page daily with more current information. Please come back often. We took down our numbers page recently as we hadn’t updated it since our Phase I contract with the Federal Highway Administration. Many things have changed since…