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The Dutch are building solar-powered roads in the form of bike paths to generate electricity for local use.
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 02:39
The small country of Lithuania is leading the way in recycling with its wildly successful “deposit refund scheme,” which has resulted in a whopping...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
Food insecurity plagues much of the developing world. Tasmanian agriculture scientist Bruce French is intending to change this tragedy by catalogin...
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:34
As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:38
What if your bicycle could help power your neighborhood? That's the idea behind S-Park, a system that uses kinetic energy harnessed from bicycles t...
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:28
An Austin-based construction technologies company on a mission to make safe, affordable housing using 3D printer technology.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
To counter the environmental impact of plastic food wrappers, an Indian school created a way for food manufacturers to find a solution.
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 02:36
A small craft brewery in Florida is feeding the ocean instead of polluting it with a remarkable solution to single-use plastic packaging.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Beautifying the world and saving the bees at the same time by making "seed bombs" that grow beautiful flowers perfect for pollination.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Why throw away your spoon if you can eat it? A new solution to disposable plastic utensils.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
50 million new-planted trees and a Guinness World Record later, India is on its way to reducing extreme pollution.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Planting and harvesting fresh food in a Los Angeles back yard grows a successful local food exchange.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:32
In the search for more sustainable construction materials, a California artist is making bricks out of fungus, and they are stronger than concrete.
- Added: Apr 04, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s set out to solve the dilemma of conserving the Earth's scarce resource—freshwater—by developing a salt water toilet.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Amazing solar powered, river propelled trash collecting barges.
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 02:38
Patagonia is working to keep their products out of landfills by partnering with their customers to upcycle old clothes into new ones.
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 02:43
A bee-saving plan in America's upper midwest.
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 02:33
A new vegan leather that is made from the strong fibers of cactus.
- Added: Mar 16, 2021
- Length: 02:32
San Antonio, TX builds the largest land bridge to protect wildlife and motorists from accidents.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:33
The nation of Chile is protecting 10 million acres of its most unspoiled and pristine land, by forging a unique partnership.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:43
Moving gently used furnishings and equipment from companies that are downsizing or moving, and repurposing them to those in need.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:30
While most teenagers balk at cleaning their rooms, Fionn Ferreira is cleaning the world's oceans from microplastics. Fionn incorporated the use of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:24
Mexico City uses the concept of vertical gardening to transform their highway pillars into air-cleansing and people-pleasing monoliths.
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:31
Bee habitats atop bus stops in Holland are reviving bee, butterfly and other insect populations.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 1
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:36
