In the coming years we’ll be eating more algae if we’re lucky. Amazing algae already accounts for biofuel production and can be used to make bioplastics too, so why not keep looking for other ways to use it? At Cornell, that’s exactly what some researchers did. They discovered that coastal
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Things Are Good: Algae Architecture Alleviates Air Pollution
The future will use algae everywhere so architects are examining ways to incorporate these versatile eukaryotic organisms into the built environment. Architects are already engaged in designing buildings to support algae growth and incorporating third party algae systems on to a building. Now we’re seeing architects think of ways to
Continue readingScripturient: Lichens of South Georgian Bay
In recent months, I have developed an interest in lichens: wondering what species live in our area, how and where they grow, which plants are their competitors or companions, why they grow where they do, what they live on for nutrition, how they reproduce and spread, what lives on them,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Collision: Replacing Plastics with Seaweed
At the last Collision Conference Loliware pitched their eco-conscious business and won. Today Sea Briganti provided an update on the company and the success they’ve had replacing plastic usage with seaweed. They have created an entire line of products which are carbon negative! The company continues to grow and we
Continue readingThings Are Good: Algae Used for Carbon Capture at Cement Plant
Every year cement production contributes about 5% of the global emissions generated by humans. Any improvement around cement production will have a good impact on lowering carbon entering our atmosphere. In Sweden there’s one company using algae to lower its emissions. The country has carbon emission rates that are likely
Continue readingThings Are Good: Eat Shrimp Made of Red Algae
Industrial fishing is killing life in the oceans at an alarming rate, so much so that the loss of life undersea is contributing to climate change. In fact, one tiny thing many people can do to fight climate change is to simply cut fish out of their diet. One company, New Wave Foods, in California […]
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Small Algae Canopy Produces as Much Oxygen as a Forest
Algae is amazing and as we find more ways to use the powerful, small, creatures we’ll improve our carbon footprints. Already algae is used to clean sewage, clean landfills, and so much more. This week at the Milan Expo EcoLogics Studio revealed their algae canopy for urban centres. The canopy
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: There’s This Story Making the Rounds…
It’s an item from Reuters that has been picked up by a number of newspapers, including The Globe & Mail. It concerns a study that found one species of algae has managed to adapt fairly quickly to warming and more acidic oceans. What’s interesting is that the authors of the study
Continue readingThings Are Good: Formula E Will Get Power from Algae
I’m looking forward to the start of Formula E next month, and it’s exciting to hear that the racing league has signed on with Aquafuel to power their cars with algae. Formula E is the all-electric alternative to the popular Formula 1 racing league. Algae will be used to power
Continue readingThings Are Good: Plastic From Bacteria and Algae
This short news report covers some cool new plastic production from bacteria and algae done by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Via Reddit.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Algae-Powered Building Opens This Week
Algae can be used for all sorts of wonderful things from cleaning up oil to producing energy. Architects in Hamburg have built a building that uses algae to power the complex and it opens this week. The building is meant to be a demonstration of cutting-edge sustainable architecture. “Using bio-chemical
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Steven Chu’s “Time to Fix the Wiring” at four years
Former US Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s recent resignation — his farewell letter is here — is no doubt celebrated in the fuel cell quarters as passionately (or more so) than it is mourned in the rest of cleantech. Early in his term, Chu infamously argued (infamously, at least, to fuel
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Lake Winnipeg is “Threatened Lake of the Year 2013″
Canada’s third largest freshwater lake in serious trouble by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: A report by a Germany-based international environmental foundation is reminding Canadians of the consequences of neglecting the responsibility to protect the environment. On World Wetland Day, Feb. 2, the Global Nature Fund (GNF) declared Lake
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