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LEDs are an important component of the indoor growing industry. But still a large segment of the hydroponic growing community does not know exactly how to make LEDs work effectively for their garden.

Now that you know how all about how to grow fruit, it's time to look at the astounding varieties of fruit trees you can grow.

How making things easier or more efficient makes people more careless or use it in new ways that use more of it.

This is very interesting! It shows how much water we use for everyday things!

Greenland ice melt reaches alarming rate because of global warming and sudden climate change. Check out how largest US cities will effect with the height of sea level rise if greenland ice melts.

Hydroponic gardening also offers several benefits to our environment. Hydroponic gardening uses considerably less water than soil gardening

Cloning is the most commonly used technique to get plants with the same genetic package growing together in a hydroponic system.

How bacteria have eaten most of the oil from the oil spill already.

This might be useful for a simple, basic windmill. Maybe it could help our prototype and we can enhance it.

and here is another one that is more specific and highlights the core materials. http://windturbinesforthehome.org/Wind_Turbine_Generators.html

and here is an even BETTER one. http://www.mywindpowersystem.com/2009/03/how-to-build-a-windmill/

Michael Wesch explaining how he uses Web 2.0

This article is about some research being done at MIT to see how it might be possible to use microbes lining cow intestines to break down cellulose and lignin into sugar and make fuel from that. Such compounds are found in grass and wood chips, consequently MIT also looked into termites but they proved to be too small to generate any significant data.

This research sounds amazing but I couldn't help but looking at the poor cow. Part of what sustainability is about is helping the environment and that includes animals. Even though this would be awesome for the atmosphere, they require a lot of enzymes for this fuel to work. This means more cows I believe, correct me if I'm wrong.

Well yea, poor cows, but we would have to think that there are tons of cow guts that I'm sure that is just thrown away. It sounds gross but might as well use what is being thrown away. One thing that came to my mind was that in the long run if Chinquapin decides to also have hows that we would eat, what better than use the guts from them. It won't be much but I'm sure that we could also contact the slaughter house (and I'm pretty sure they kill a good number of cows per day).

How a set of schools, the army and other groups are "going off grid" by reducing water usage.

How to raise veggies in a small space

Finding good employees is always a challenge in a tight labor market.

This guy build a wind turbine on only 145 bucks.

This is more research. At UC Berkley, they found a way to engineer bacteria that make fuel such as diesel by themselves. Though the research is still going on to make it more productive.

This sounds very interesting but how large scale do you think it could become?

Houston gives an options of how to save electricity.

How to set up programs to reduce your carbon footprint

Changing behavior one small step at a time

This is a fun activity that tests if you know how much water we use for different things.