If you’ve experienced some bad luck courtesy of Mother Nature, there may be some environmentally friendly hope that will help you pick up the pieces. A home insurance company is offering owners of destroyed or damaged homes a chance to rebuild with green materials, without breaking the bank while doing so. Chubb Group of Insurance [...]

According to information in a recent report released by the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, up to 1.5 billion people currently depend in some way on bamboo products. Many organizations are currently looking into how cultivating bamboo in economically deprived areas can bolster the income of the people of those countries, such as small-scale [...]

German researchers have developed a manufacturing technique for making toys and even speaker boxes from a new renewable source, liquid wood. It’s derived from wood pulp-based lignin and can be mixed with hemp, flax or wood fibers and other additives such as wax to create a strong, nontoxic alternative to petroleum-based plastics. The bio-plastic has [...]

A new and innovative possible bio-fuel has been developed using wood chips by researchers from the University of Georgia. Little pieces of wood are heated in an oxygen-free environment to produce charcoal and gas. The gas can then be condensed into a liquid bio-oil which can then be processed into a fuel which could be [...]

Imagine a self-powering cell phone that never needs to be charged because it converts the sound waves produced by the user into the energy it needs to keep running. Using materials known as “piezoelectrics” which generate an electric voltage when subjected to some sort of mechanical stress, researchers are discovering new ways to possibly incorporate [...]

Buckypaper is a material that ten times lighter than steel, but 500 times stronger when sheets are pressed together to form a composite material. Made of carbon nanotubes that have been disbursed in a liquid suspension and filtered through fine mesh to make a thin film, scientists think buckypaper will lead to consumer applications possibly [...]

Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” Award in green tech innovation for their eco-friendly drywall called EcoRock. EcoRock requires 80 percent less energy to produce and cuts CO2 output by 90 percent in comparison to traditional gypsum-based drywall. These reductions in energy and CO2 are won by getting rid of heaters, dryers, calcining and burning [...]