Bringing you; the weekly, positive, and Green related articles. Happy Spring. Hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and well. Award-winning school and community complex achieves Net Zero Emissions (inhabitat.com) Turning food waste into aviation fuel could greatly reduce emissions (inhabitat.com) From Reddit investors to wildlife conservationists (inhabitat.com) Colorful rammed earth domes decorate an island in Iran (inhabitat.com) Tips for Post-Pandemic Socialization With Young Children (ecofriend.com) 9 Affordable Birthday Gifts for Eco-Conscious Dads (ecofriend.com) Three Major Advantages of Used Oil Recycling – Ecofriend.com SOVs for world's largest offshore wind farm look amazing in CGI - Electrek 10 Baby Items You Don't Need to Buy (treehugger.com) Agroforestry Approaches For Gardens and Small Farms (treehugger.com) Are Vertical Farms Still a Thing? (treehugger.com) 'Brave Blue World' Documentary Explores Solutions to Global Water Crisis (treehugger.com)
Part 2 Burning Man and LAGI unveil best eco-friendly proposals for Fly Ranch (inhabitat.com) Recycled plastic wireless chargers work twice as fast as regular cables (inhabitat.com) SMART, NASA reveal METL airless tires (inhabitat.com) This nature-inspired substation shows the beauty of industrial design (inhabitat.com) Amazon tests its Rivian electric vans in hilly San Francisco - Electrek Offshore wind could meet 90% of US electricity demand - Electrek Duke Energy Florida announces two more new solar farms - Electrek Tesla scores over 100 MW order for batteries in Israel - Electrek Lovely Moments and Pandemic Images Win Sony Photo Awards (treehugger.com) Feeding Seaweed to Cows Cuts Methane Emissions by 80% (treehugger.com) My Top 10 Choices For Seeds to Sow With Kids (treehugger.com) Sunamp Heat Batteries Can Help Electrify Everything (treehugger.com)
Part 3 NetZero mycelium orbs help increase carbon capture and more (inhabitat.com) Virginia bans cosmetic testing on animals (inhabitat.com) Philadelphia skyline to go dim in favor of migrating birds (inhabitat.com) Sunne: solar-powered, LED lamp collects sunlight for use at night (inhabitat.com) Duke Energy's largest wind farm comes online, in Oklahoma - Electrek Electric Last Mile Solutions announces 45k pre-orders for Urban Delivery EV in US - Electrek US solar sets records in 2020, predicted to quadruple by 2030 - Electrek Toyota teases its first electric SUV - Electrek 7 Lessons I've Learned From The Pandemic (treehugger.com) Birds Learn to Skip Fast Butterflies and Their Look-Alikes (treehugger.com) It's Not So Hard to Build Quality Housing, Just Follow the Recipe (treehugger.com) Miami Beach to Swap Out Palm Trees (treehugger.com)
Part 4 LEED Gold-certified WE3 shows off its skin at Silicon Beach (inhabitat.com) Thinking Huts and Studio Mortazavi plan a 3D-printed school in Madagascar (inhabitat.com) Carbfix turns emissions into stone (inhabitat.com) Make friends while saving money and the planet in Buy Nothing groups (inhabitat.com) Electric vehicle spotlight (EVS): Volta Trucks - Electrek The easiest way to solar charge an electric bicycle (even at night!) - Electrek These researchers in Switzerland can get electricity from wood - Electrek Toledo, Ohio, connects solar with neighborhood reinvestment - Electrek Send Your Kids Out to Play in the Dark (treehugger.com) UK Plans Green Modernization of Buses (treehugger.com) You Could Soon Be Wearing the Stuff of Plastic Grocery Bags (treehugger.com) How Clean Are a Service Dog’s Feet? (treehugger.com)
Part 5 This marine studies building doubles as an emergency shelter (inhabitat.com) Tribal Textiles employs local artisans to uplift rural Zambian community (inhabitat.com) The Australian government unveils plan to end plastic pollution (inhabitat.com) Oregon State University building on a reclaimed mine targets net-zero energy (inhabitat.com) Launch company Astra hires former Tesla automation lead to boost rocket production - Space Explored Sleepgram Bamboo Sheet Set and Silk Pillowcase review – The Gadgeteer (the-gadgeteer.com) Philips GoZero Hydration Bottle review – The Gadgeteer (the-gadgeteer.com) Should You Put Coffee Grounds on Your Plants? (lifehacker.com) Dirty Dozen List Reveals Produce with Most Pesticide Residue (treehugger.com) Litelok, the Wearable Bike Lock, Gets Lighter and Stronger (treehugger.com) These Travel Companies Offer Tours for a Post-Pandemic World (treehugger.com) Photojournalist Treks Where Few People Ever Will Go (treehugger.com)
Part 6 ZHA designs sustainable expansion to China's largest international exhibition center (inhabitat.com) Why Your Kid Needs a Plant (lifehacker.com) Why You Should Support Your Local Bookstore (lifehacker.com) Best of Green Awards 2021: Sustainable Travel (treehugger.com) You've Been Using Hydrogen Peroxide Wrong (lifehacker.com) Researchers at NIST Put Cloth Face Masks Under a Microscope (gizmodo.com) 7 'Extinct’ Species That Eventually Reappeared (gizmodo.com) Physicists Discover the Elusive Odderon After 50 Years (gizmodo.com) Incredible drone footage gets scarily close to Iceland volcano eruption - CNET Biden nominates Bill Nelson, former astronaut and US senator, to direct NASA - CNET Meet the 'bizarre' winged shark from the age of the dinosaurs - CNET Tornado-like 'beast' winds with speeds of 900 mph spotted on Jupiter - CNET
Part 7 Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Could Be the Shattered Remnant of a Pluto-like Object (gizmodo.com) EPA Relaunches Climate Change Sub-Site That Trump Axed (gizmodo.com) The US Leads The Way in Citywide Fossil Fuel Bans (gizmodo.com) Here's 16 Minutes of Perseverance Rover Going Kssst, Tiktik, and Pffft (gizmodo.com) Watch NASA's SLS Core Stage fire for eight minutes | Engadget Specialized partners with a Tesla co-founder to recycle e-bike batteries | Engadget For Virgin Hyperloop, trust is its most valuable commodity | Engadget Perseverance recording reveals what driving on Mars sounds like | Engadget See the world's smallest origami bird fold itself into nanoscale art - CNET Toyota Aygo X Prologue is a seriously wild-looking crossover - Roadshow Listen to the NASA Perseverance rover scramble through the rocky terrain of Mars - CNET SpaceX drops a new close-up look at the full flight of Starship SN10 - CNET
Part 8 Weirdo Manta Shark Found Fossilized in Mexican Limestone (gizmodo.com) Armored Dinos May Have Dug Trenches to Protect Themselves, Fossil Study Suggests (gizmodo.com) Putting Solar Panels on California Canals Could Solve Two Crises (gizmodo.com) Astronomers Spot ‘Unique Meteorological Beast’ on Jupiter (gizmodo.com) President Biden picks former senator and one-time astronaut Bill Nelson to lead NASA | Engadget Russia sank a neutrino observatory into the world's deepest lake | Engadget Interstellar Visitor May Be a Fragment of a Pluto-Like Planet - ExtremeTech Perseverance Rover Records the Sounds of Driving on Mars - ExtremeTech See a swirling dust devil on Mars, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover - CNET Toyota Aygo X Prologue EV revealed as a funky little crossover - Roadshow 5 things to consider before you buy solar panels - CNET Unexplained interstellar visitor Oumuamua could be lost piece of an exoplanet - CNET
Part 9 The Myth of ‘Clean Coal’ Might Finally Die (gizmodo.com) Unprecedented Footage Reveals the Bizarre Inner Workings of a Beehive (gizmodo.com) Mars Is Hiding Its 'Lost' Water Beneath the Surface, New Research Suggests (gizmodo.com) Russian Scientists Drop a Telescope Into the Deepest Lake on Earth (gizmodo.com) What If Mars Never Lost Its Water? - ExtremeTech Perseverance Rover Spots a Dust Devil on Mars - ExtremeTech Astronomers Find Supermassive Black Hole Wandering Around Distant Galaxy - ExtremeTech NASA and Blue Origin Will Simulate Lunar Gravity With Spinning Rockets - ExtremeTech New Dead Sea Scrolls fragments unveiled for the first time in 60 years - CNET Mars hides an ancient ocean beneath its surface - CNET Worlds with hidden oceans give hope for life beyond Earth, scientist says - CNET The largest asteroid flyby of the year is Monday: How to watch - CNET
Part 10 Scientists stunned by fossils found deep beneath Greenland's ice sheet - CNET Astronomers puzzled by a supermassive black hole moving strangely in deep space - CNET Russian Film Plans Mean NASA Astronaut Could Spend an Entire Year in Space (gizmodo.com) Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space (gizmodo.com) Why Rainbows Look Different in Hawaii (gizmodo.com)