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5 Trillion Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean

Yes, you read that correctly. 5 trillionpieces of plastic. After 24 expeditions occurring from 2007 to 2013, 5 Gyres Institute has recently concluded and published a report that states that there are a total of 5 trillion pieces of plastic currently circulating in our oceans. These pieces, which equal 296,000 tons, can be found throughout the entire…

A Big Leap For Wind Power

A look at the BAT as it is being raised into the sky.

  Altaeros Energy’s Buoyant Airborne Turbine, or BAT, is the beginnings of a new step for Wind Energy. This turbine is not on a tower, but a helium blimp housing a turbine which is tethered to the ground from about 300 meters in the air (making it the worlds highest wind turbine!). The air is not only more powerful as you climb higher into the…

Are Green Roof's the way of the future? Read our post for more information, or watch this video: http://bit.ly/1n2YndY #urbanagriculture #EB4K #SH

    A “Green Roof” is a roof which doubles as green space. With the use specially designed irrigation technology, and added supports to the roofing, plants of all sizes can be grown on the roofs of buildings – flat and slanted! See the image above for details on the layers of materials which go into creating a green roof, and click on it for more details!

  Green Space on top of Chicago City…

Stone’s Throw is a partnership of six farmers who have chosen to uproot from the country in order to farm sixteen vacant lots in the Minneapolis area. Their crops are sold through the Community Supported Agriculture program, and local restaurants.  Eric Larson, a Stone’s Throw farmer, says “by growing where we live, we are greatly reducing our impact on the Earth, while empowering city-dwellers…

Check out Beans and Bunny Go Outside, a fun environmental mommy blog to follow! bit.ly/1kGLvN9 @beansandbunny #EB4K #mommyblogger #LS

Kate from Beans and Bunny Go Outside is an Ontario-based biologist who is the mother of two daughters nicknamed Beans (6) and Bunny (8). Her blog is devoted to sharing her family’s adventures in nature and answering all of the many questions that her daughters come up with as they explore the natural world around them. As her homepage states, “Sometimes it takes a kid to make us stop, smell the…

No matter how hard we may try to only put good into our bodies, there is always some level of bad that sneaks it’s way in. A  huge trend in the health and fitness world are detoxes-rituals used to eliminate waste and toxins from our bodies. You could spend hundreds of dollars purchasing kits online or even attending a week-long detox course or you could do something as simple as making your own,…