The other day I noticed something that even adults don’t usually realise. When you buy a product that uses no elecricity or batteries, yet it does something, you need to consider where the energy comes from. To do this, you need a basic understanding of energy. (skip the next bit if you think you already [...]

I found this article on Inhabitat. A 15-year-old kid made a system that covers all the basic needs of a community in the third world in a entirely sustainalble, algae-powered system called VERSATILE. Not only is this system very interesting in itself, it shows what amazing things kids just like you can accomplish when you [...]

Searther (formerly blackle.org) is a way of getting news about the environment that is reliable, diverse, but not overwhelming or depressing. There is a points system and it is almost like a game, and there are also secrets in the site that you can find using clues. It is well done and continues to improve. [...]

As I said in a previous post, I made a solar oven out of a cardboard box (well, actually two cardboard boxes, a sheet of plexiglass, newspaper, black paint, and tape) and wanted to try it out.
To test the oven  I got one of those super unhealthy cookie dough rolls from the store (So I [...]

Says Michael Pollan, journalist and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, as well as his newest book, In Defense of food. These seven words are his guidelines for a healthy diet, but, as he said, his publisher was looking for 60,000 words not a post card.
Fortunately, it is a lot more complicated than that. At the [...]

We need better schools, schools that prepare kids for their lives in the unknown.
A school should…

Be a place where kids can come to learn because they want to.
Be a place where kids can come to interact with other kids and learn from eachother.
Allow kids to develop their skills and passions.
Have teachers who are able to [...]

Ozone Protector

Ozone molecules are made up of three oxygen atoms. Rebuild the ozone layer by sucking the oxygen atoms together to form ozone molecules! The ozone layer is really becoming better but will only stay like this if we keep up with low-pollution industries and don’t put too many pollutants into the atmosphere.
Of course, [...]

A cardboard box won £50,000 (almost $90,000 Canadian) in the Financial Time Climate Change Challenge. It beat many inventions, including ‘a food additive that stops cows from passing wind.’ Of course, it was more than a cardboard box— it was a solar oven. Able, according to Kyoto Energy (the company that made it), to boil [...]