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Eco Living
Bokashi composting
Oct 17th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Get started with Bokashi composting using this great infographic!
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Transportation
Wastewater to biofuel?
Oct 15th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Biofuel from wastewater? The latest innovation in the field of advanced biofuels may hold some promise for the future.
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Food System
How To Make The Food System More Energy Efficient
Oct 12th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
This article was originally published in Scientific American, and is republished on the Sustainable America blog with the permission of the author, Dr. Michael E. Webber.
"Examining our food supply through the lens of energy use reveals opportunities for smart policies, innovative technologies and new dietary choices that can potentially solve food and energy problems together. The same steps would also make our bodies, and our ecosystems, healthier."
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Eco Living
TakeOutWithOut
Oct 10th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
TakeOutWithOut asks you to BYOR (Bring Your Own Reusables) the next time you get take out!
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Food System
Dirt!
Oct 8th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Dirt the movie shows us how beautiful dirt is and how important healthy soil really is to our existence.
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Food System
PodPonics
Oct 5th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
PodPonics says that growing food in shipping containers is a 'local everywhere' approach.
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Transportation
The U.S. Navy is Seeking Independence From Foreign Oil
Oct 3rd, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is on a mission to decrease the U.S. Navy's dependence on foreign oil. In his words, “We simply buy too much petroleum either from potentially or actually volatile places on earth.” In 2009, he announced a plan to fuel half the Navy’s energy consumption through alternative fuels by 2020. “We’re doing this for one reason,” Mabus stated, “We’re doing it to be better warfighters.” The Navy has started to demonstrate some of the progress they have made with "drop-in replacement" advanced biofuels this year.
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Transportation
Five Amazing Things You Won't Believe Run on Biofuels
Oct 2nd, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
Some people associate biofuels with long hair and environmentalism, and that's fine! In fact, you'll see Mr. Willie Nelson is featured prominently on our list. But with innovations in renewable fuels made everyday, biofuel is popping up in some unexpected, exciting, and high-performance places! Here is our list of a few of the most remarkable.
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Food System
A New NRDC Report Shows That America Wastes 40% of Its Food
Oct 1st, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
40% of food available to Americans is discarded, and most of that uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills. A new [report](http://www.nrdc.org/food/wasted-food.asp) by the NRDC has compiled many existing statistics to demonstrate the magnitude of [food waste](http://www.sustainableamerica.org/blog/what-is-food-waste-and-why-does-it-matterwhat-is-food-waste-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/) in the U.S.
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Eco Living
The benefits of eating real food...
Sep 28th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
"The China Study" purports simple, straightforward advice for healthy eating - eat more plants and less animal protein. Turns out these words of wisdom are also beneficial for the environment and for reducing our energy and water use within the national food systems.
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