A New Leaf: Making Paper From Weeds
The giant reed (Arundo donax) is mostly green. It's a weed that looks a lot like bamboo. Native from the Mediterranean to India, the enormous grass colonizes stream beds of the coastal United States....
View ArticleConcrete Solutions for Climate Change
Is it possible green shoots are starting to appear in the concrete jungle? That's the prospect being dangled by California's Calera Corporation, which claims a concrete-making process that is not only...
View ArticleA Rock That Helps Out In a Hard Place
Folded into the mountains of northern Oman is a rare burst of peridotite rock. Viewed from above, its black-and-white striations make it look like a great scoop of marble fudge ice cream has been...
View ArticleCooling the Asphalt Jungle
The asphalt jungle is due for a makeover as tar beach becomes a sanctuary for native plants, wildflowers and winged pollinators. Like mushrooms after a spring rain, "green roofs" are proliferating on...
View ArticleTempest in a Cement Mixer
Calera Corporation sparked a lot of media attention (including at Miller-McCune.com) with its claims for carbon neutral, or even carbon-negative, cement produced primarily by bubbling industrial carbon...
View ArticleThe Making of the Ocean Health Index
If all goes well, when a scientific paper is published and the media pick up on the story, a lot of effort gets boiled down into a soundbite. New cure for cancer discovered. Water found on Mars. Fish...
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