Fall is finally here, and the school year is in full swing! Teachers — we know you’re well aware that with a new school year comes new opportunities and inevitable challenges. Whether it’s finding a new, refreshing way to engage the class, or making a daunting subject matter approachable, you may be looking for a… Read More Lesson Plans For Bringing Tower Garden to the Classroom
A full 90 percent of the U.S. labor force worked on a farm in 1790.1 By 1860, that figure shrank to 58 percent. In 1940, it dropped to 18 percent. And in 1990, less than three percent of workers helped produce our nation’s food. As our number of farmers decreased, we witnessed an increase in the consumption… Read More How Urban Farms Support the Healthy Living Movement – Tower Garden, a Molecule Store partner
One of man’s most important inventions is a flimsy sheet of wood pulp that became the heart of human’s first long-distance communication, among its many other uses. Of course, there have been various writing surfaces used beforehand—tortoise shells, wood, parchments, anything where the ink drips and stays like a warning sign for others to read.… Read More The tragedy and remedy of paper
Single-use plastic cutlery has changed the way consumers eat outside their homes. Convenient, yes. But for the better of the environment? No. Plastic Pollution Coalition reports that America alone uses 100 million pieces of these plastic utensils per year—a large percentage that contributes to about 270,000 tons of plastic waste produced globally. Six million tons… Read More Fit to eat: the case of edible foodware
Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin has already said it: humans should be on Mars. It could be a stone shot in empty space—a far-flung daydream. Or it could be a vision of the future, one that will give earth-dwellers an alternative before the planet succumbs to a crippling disease brought about by climate change. What was… Read More Eyes on Mars: Humanity’s Venture in Conquering Space
Re-posted from Dwell, by Lucy Wang, May 9, 2019 The World’s first 3D-Printed village coming to Latin America in the summer of 2019 is a project by Yves Béhar. The walls of each home can be printed in just 24 hours with nearly zero waste. Acclaimed designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject, Austin–based construction technologies company ICON, and… Read More The World’s First 3D-Printed Village by Yves Béhar
Here’s why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future. The new food. By ROBBY BERMAN 19 July, 2019. Re-posted from Big Think The company’s protein powder, “Solein,” is similar in form and taste to wheat flour. Based on a concept developed by NASA, the product has wide potential as a carbon-neutral source of protein.… Read More NASA’s idea for making food from thin air just became a reality — it could feed billions