India is Rapidly Developing Solar Energy via Photovoltaic & Thermal Systems

A Vast Vineyard of Solar Electricity
Kramer Junction in the sunny state of California

Editor’s Note: Solar energy in its raw form may be pollution-free, but manufacturing the devices that get the energy out of light and heat requires metal and other material, requiring mines and [...]

EarthWorks Continues Crusade to take their Revolutionary Soil Treatment Worldwide

EarthWorks Founder and CEO
Jonathan Brewer

Wouldn’t it be better to clean and reuse contaminated soil?
What if toxins could be inexpensively removed from soil, on-site, instead of being hauled to a landfill? This is the vision that inspired Jonathan Brewer to found EarthWorks Environmental in 1998, and [...]

Kids Sort Trash
Lessons start early in life
all recycling is good…

Editor’s note: Recycling is not always the environmentally correct choice. Many items we recycle come from abundant raw materials and are inert and harmless when dumped. It costs more to recycle these than to bury the used and manufacture the new from scratch. [...]

State-of-the-Art Agro-Forestry vs. Deserts on the March

Building a Path to Ecological Restoration
An Institute in India Fights the Desert

Editor’s note: Deserts spread but deserts are not inevitable. Restored ecosystems, managed by humans, can reclaim desertified land through harvesting and storing more rainwater, planting hardy trees that none-the-less yield a crop, and sustainable farming and [...]

Bringing Life from Deserts and Seawater

Planting New Mangrove Forests

Editor’s note: The earth is a thirsty planet, since over a third of the world’s population can barely get enough water to fulfill basic needs such as hydration and hygiene. But while fresh water is often in short supply, the earth is over 70% covered with [...]