Author: Trends Journal (Julian Dzienio)

The Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration, a Costa Rica venture, has figured out a way to grind up junk plastic and mix it with concrete to make bricks, cinder blocks, and similar building materials. The waste plastic doesn’t have to be sorted by type. The conglomeration is mixed with minerals to create a plastic-limestone...

In October, New Hampshire became the latest state to pass a law allowing counties and towns to generate and distribute electricity, following in the steps of Washington, Vermont, and California, among others. This growing “community power” movement pools several motivations. For some, grid power from a centralized utility is too expensive, with rates that increase...

From vitamin B12 in your cereal to iodine in table salt, adding nutrients to food is an old idea. But it doesn’t always work. Long storage, changes in humidity and temperature, and other variables can slash the additives’ potency. That’s a special problem when transporting food to places where famine has taken hold, often in...