What is a pizza farm, you ask? It’s a small chunk of land (about half an acre) that is divided in 8 in a circle, similar to a pizza. It grows ALL the ingredients needed to make… you guessed it, a pizza.
The eight sections include:
• Goats: ”You are petting living cheese,” Gregory said.
• Pigs: Can [...]

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What are earthships? Earthships are dwellings, mostly made out of old tires or other recycled waste, built on the earth for the purpose of living “off the grid.” It uses passive solar and geothermal energy which allows the home to be heated without gas. Its design allows for a comfortable year-round temperature. Many people who [...]

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TerraCycle is a company started by two Princton University students. What’s so unusual about their products is that every single part is made from garbage and waste. Yes, including the bottles and the packaging. The bottle you see on the right is an old, cleaned Pepsi bottle. To save resources, they recycle old soda bottles, [...]

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Some of you may have already heard about landfills across the country utilizing their garbage to generate electricity. It sounds like a great idea. They dump the garbage into the landfill and collect the gases that are created while it’s decomposing. Typically, methane is the gas they look for to generate the power, which varies [...]

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All right, so I’m a bit stuck on this skyscraper farm idea. But it’s a REALLY GOOD idea. I was thinking about it some more today, and had yet another idea. What if big chain restaurants built and utilized these farms? Their pockets are certainly deep enough. They could get all the veggies they need [...]

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Wired.com’s article says each American’s carbon footprint is at least twice as large as those in other countries, and that’s including the homeless and the Amish. Taking our roads, public and government buildings into account and dividing these up per person, we are simply used to using more and more resources than necessary.
So what, you [...]

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