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Half a dozen solar roads change the vision to infrastructure. The race for functional and sustainable projects continues its course, now there are ways that not only can be used to circulate with our vehicles, they can also have other functionalities, such as generating clean energy to seek balance with the environment. New solar road projects

Indoor succulents. Image: Igisheva Maria Shutterstock Below you will receive some recommendations to take care of succulent plants, ideal plants for both decoration and air purification in our homes. The succulent is a type of plant that is characterized by storing water in leaves ,  roots and stems to cope with drought. They are normally

Oil for frying. Image: Seksan kingwatcharapong Shutterstock Natural bioplastic produced with used frying oil would have the same thermomechanical properties as traditional plastics. A new natural bioplastic “made in Italy” that solves the problem of eliminating this type of oil. Use the used frying oil to produce natural bioplastics, 100% biodegradable and with the same

Today we are going to learn, thanks to the friends of AguaBosque, to store 23,000 liters of water, investing less than 300 euros in budget. Materials. We will need: 20 strong pallets – equal (80 × 120). High tension wires. Greenhouse plastic. Wall stapler. Screws and strips. Paperboard. Sand. Instructions. Preparing the terrain. Create the

Transportation companies Emons and Vos Logistics will test SolarOnTop solar panels for four months starting in April. Your goal is to save 5.5% fuel. IM Efficiency introduced SolarOnTop, announcing that its solar photovoltaic panels integrated into truck covers could save 5.5% on fuel, about 2300 liters of diesel per truck per year. To have some

At the beginning of 2015, 886 Dutch people sued their government in the Hague court to reduce their CO2 emissions. They won and the court in The Hague ordered the Dutch government to undertake a 25% reduction in the next 5 years. One of the measures that the Dutch government will take to undertake this

This idea is very easy to do in case of emergency or need, because there is nothing on hand to heat a soup at the campsite, for example, or because we need to light up any room. This tutorial is going to teach you how to make a small alcohol stove out of an aluminum

Shutterstock Image New Zealand’s upcoming Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ambitious environmental policies to help fight global warming. She wants her country to be neutral in emissions by 2050, with a major role in renewable energy from the first day of her mandate. “I envision that we will be a government, as I said during

Being able to store rainwater is an important strategy to reduce water consumption and save money. The easiest way to reuse this water is by using a cistern, which captures and stores water for later use. This vertical tank created by Tecnotri is a practical way to store rainwater in a simple and easy way.

The bacteria can transform phthalates, which are a dangerous toxin used in plastics, into end products like carbon dioxide or water. A novel technology to break down the plastic material and thus make it biodegradable. A great advance to fight against a material, plastic, that (almost) never dies. Related: A plastic-eating worm may be the