Adaptation
The planet is changing. The cockroaches will be fine, but what about us? See what these PF Members are doing to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Planet Forward
Erin Parsons and Lexi Combs, Planet Forward members and students at Ole Miss, share an innovation that is making bussing around Mississippi the hot new trend
I envision solar panels that would overlap and interlock to be used as roofing tiles. They would interconnect using integrated connectors instead of wires or cables. These tiles would be made in standard sizes and shapes for easy removal and... Read More
Planet Forward
Jack Gerard answers Planet Forward's energy innovation question and shares the secret behind being the leader of these new forms of energy.
In this video, Oxford Pathways Commission Secretary Kate Kellum discusses turning derelict railways into state-of-the-art cycling paths for the residents around the University of Mississippi. The paths are expected to reduce automobile traffic by... Read More
The geothermal industry gets its first big lobbyist. Will this help expand on a lagging form of clean energy production?
EcoTech Fuels, LLC
Pine Ridge Racing Fuels will convert 100 tons per day of regional trash, plastics and tires into approximately 320 barrels per day of advanced synfuels. Watch and rate this idea>>
The University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team, a campus club made up of students from all academic disciplines, designs high performance racing cars powered by the sun.
Since the 1980s, the club has been custom building, testing and racing carbon-... Read More
Hemp Technologies, Green Building Council, Hemp Industries Association, VoteHemp, International hemp Builders Association
Our company has built the first 3 permitted Hempcrete homes in USA and an office extension in Canada in 2010 with many more iHemp/Lime building projects coming in 2011/12
2.5 acres of IHemp will provide the insulation for an average size home and... Read More
In the world-wide race to develop energy sources that are seen as "green" because they are renewable and less GHG intensive, sometimes the most basic questions remain unanswered.
Michal Moore, Senior Fellow, School of Public Policy at the University... Read More
Planet Forward
By Mike Sweigart (presenter), Kim Ouillette, David McCutcheon, Jennifer Clay, and Jonas Garcia.
For a graduate level course on urban sustainability at The George Washington University, our group studied how cities in the southwest United States are... Read More