Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, Author at CleanTechnica

Air Quality

Chinese Performance Artist Shows Creative Potential Of Air Pollutants

December 14th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Chinese performance artist Brother Nut has all of Beijing talking about his repurposing of air pollutants into bricks for building

Consumer Technology

The iMac G3 Aquarium: An Upcycling Project For Gearheads (Video)

December 14th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Got an old iMac G3 laying around the house? You could recycle it, or get creative and turn it into a working aquarium

Clean Power

Sewers Hold Waste Heat Ready For Recovery

November 28th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

A British Columbia-based company has developed and commercialized technology that allows for harvesting waste heat from sewer water

Air Quality

One Million Clean Cookstoves Cut CO2 Emissions, Fuel Costs

November 25th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Social enterprise Envirofit tallies up the benefits created by its sale of one million clean cookstoves in the developing world

Agriculture

Electronic Artists Find Beauty In Phosphorus Recovery Efforts

November 8th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

A new art exhibit based in Chicago brings the science of phosphorus recovery, as well as its importance to plant life, to smart phones and tablets

Carbon Pricing

Pricing Carbon Pollution: Carbon Tax 101

October 7th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Originally published on Red, Green, and Blue. Most economists agree that putting a price on carbon will allow the market [&hellip

Biomass

Portable Anaerobic Digestion Unit Ready For Demonstration

October 6th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

The HORSE, a portable anaerobic digestion machine that creates energy & fertilizer, is ready for the demonstration phase, and is raising funds for that

Biomass

Recycling Coffee Grounds Into Home Heating Pellets

September 27th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

London startup Bio-bean's first offering will involve recycling coffee grounds from local coffee shops into biomass pellets for home heating

Batteries

The Electric Vehicle Battery “Can And Should Be Recycled”

July 23rd, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Despite what critics might say, the electric vehicle battery isn't an environmental hazard: they can and should be recycled

Biofuels

Waste-Based Biofuels Going Into United Passenger Planes This Summer

July 15th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

United Airlines will be testing a fuel blend containing waste-based biofuels in passenger flights this Summer

Agriculture

Rice Husks: Goodyear’s New Source Of Silica

June 17th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Goodyear's developed a process for extracting silica from the ashes of rice husks, creating a use for this material that normally goes to landfills

Biomass

Want To Power A Zoo With Biogas? Use Animal Poo

June 10th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Zoos in Toronto and Detroit are planning to use animal poop - of which they've got plenty - to create biogas for powering part of their operations

Cleantech News

Recycling Plastic Waste & 3D Print Fails Into Filament: The Cruncher

February 12th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

3D printing will involve failed projects. The Cruncher is designed to pelletize those failures, and other forms of plastic waste, in usable filament

Clean Power

An “Internet Of Things” Approach to Cleaner, Greener Public Space

February 4th, 2015 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

An "internet of things" approach to trash collection from public spaces makes the process much more efficient.

Consumer Technology

New Green App eEcoSphere Understands What Makes Millennials Tick

August 12th, 2014 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Millennials have proven themselves a tough group for marketers. Green app developer eEcoSphere believes it can motivate these young people to action

Buildings

Dell’s Mobile Solar-Powered Classroom Brings Computers To Areas Without Electricity

July 23rd, 2014 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Dell's Learning Lab is a solar powered classroom set up for training students in computer technology, even though they're nowhere near a power grid

Clean Power

Solar Schools Create Educational Opportunities In UK & Cut Costs

May 6th, 2014 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Originally published on Sustainablog. One of the beauties of solar power: it really doesn’t require a lot of sun to [&hellip

Climate Change

Global Warming Consensus (VIDEO)

March 30th, 2014 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Originally published on Sustainablog. I have no doubt that climatology is a challenging field in and of itself, but climate [&hellip

Agriculture

AquaSprouts — Home Aquaponics System For Beginners

March 7th, 2014 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Originally published on sustainablog. AquaSprouts co-founders Shannon Crowe and Jack Ikard Got a 10-gallon aquarium laying around in the basement [&hellip

Clean Power

KidWind Provides A Hands-On Renewable Energy Course

February 9th, 2014 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Originally published on Sustainablog. I’ve been passionate about educational programs for sustainability from sustainablog’s earliest days, so I wasn’t surprised [&hellip

Uncategorized

14 Religious Communities Are Using Solar Energy

January 20th, 2014 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Originally published on Sustainablog If I asked you to provide a one or two word answer to the question “What [&hellip

Clean Power

Solar Lights & Water Pumps Can Help To Alleviate Poverty

May 15th, 2013 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

This article originally appeared on CleanTechnica sister site sustainablog. Can solar power help eradicate extreme poverty in the developing world? [&hellip

Oil

ZapRoot: Plastic Trees and Sarah Palin

September 25th, 2008 | by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/0va_ugmSf2w&hl=en&fs=1] From our friends at ZapRoot this week: Arizona tests artificial CO2 filtering trees. Sarah Palin loves oil. We help [&hellip