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Growing plants indoors can sometimes be a challenge for amateur gardeners, but with the Biopod, the world’s first smart microhabitat, you can grow your own herbs, vegetables—and even a rainforest—in your own home. Biopod’s app-controlled terrarium allows you to monitor everything from lighting to watering with your smartphone. Photo credit: Biopod What makes this tank […]

WalletHub has put together its annual list of cities “that most encourage an environmentally friendly lifestyle.” WalletHub analysts compared 100 cities using 13 key metrics “from greenhouse-gas emissions per capita to the number of smart-energy policies and initiatives.” Source: WalletHub WalletHub finds that going green is a great way to promote job growth. They cite statistics […]

Camping is wonderful for many reasons, but it can be hard to appreciate the outdoors without a good night’s sleep. One of the worst parts of camping (at least for me) is lugging and setting up all that gear—tent, sleeping bag, mat—just to get decent shut-eye on a cold night. Thankfully, a group of Swiss […]

The Koch brothers, Duke Energy and Arizona Public Service are among 12 special interest groups waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns across the country, often coordinated and behind the scenes, a new Environment America Research and Policy Center report said today.  While American solar power has increased four-fold since 2010, state by state, utilities and powerful industry front groups […]

You might know of farm-to-table, but JetBlue could one day take this concept into cruising altitude. Call it farm-to-tray-table, if you will. Farm-to-tray-table concept? @JetBlue opens JFK farm @NY_NJairports #AvGeek http://t.co/RFHqveEKmJ pic.twitter.com/luzEIy28zg — Scott Mayerowitz (@GlobeTrotScott) October 7, 2015 JetBlue’s Terminal 5 (T5) at New York’s John F. Kennedy is now home to a 24,000 square-foot farm that will provide a […]

Wind and solar energy remain the only obvious replacements for fossil fuels, but recent research shows that scientists are clearly thinking outside the box to come up with future alternatives. They have recently been able to report at least theoretical progress with nuclear energy, algae and a novel alloy. In just a few days, they […]

One of the pioneers of the UK’s renewable energy industry says the British government is distorting the market in an attempt to support fossil fuels and nuclear power. Onshore wind farms in the UK have had government support cut. Photo credit: Andy Magee / Flickr His accusation comes as the industry’s trade association, RenewableUK, announces […]

Wind and solar power are “much more competitive” against dirty energy sources than they were even just a few years ago, according to a detailed global analysis published this week. A wind farm in Colorado. Photo credit: UCAR / Flickr In fact, according to the findings from the research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), […]