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According to the United Nations Environment Program, around one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year is either lost or wasted. In an effort to deal with all this waste in a green way, New York-based BioHitech has developed a device that breaks food waste down into grey water and connects to a cloud system to allow the company to tap the power of big data to monitor and improve the performance of the units.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/ecosafe-digester-big-data-food-waste-grey-water/34737/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="34810"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-replicate-photosynthesis/34810/">Researchers replicate crucial step in photosynthesis</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/helen-clark/">Helen Clark</a></div> <div class="date">December 2, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-replicate-photosynthesis/34810/pictures">2 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-replicate-photosynthesis/34810/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/artificialphotosynthesisanu-1.jpg" title="Researchers at ANU have replicated the primary capture of energy from sunlight (Photo: Shu..." alt="Researchers at ANU have replicated the primary capture of energy from sunlight (Photo: Shu..."/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> Researchers at the Australian National University are one step closer to creating an artificial photosynthesis system after replicating one of its crucial steps. The development may lead to an abundant source of hydrogen, a cheap and clean fuel that could replace all petroleum products.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-replicate-photosynthesis/34810/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="35025"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/clickstick-deodorant/35025/">A smarter greener deodorant stick? Hmmm...</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/james-holloway/">James Holloway</a></div> <div class="date">December 2, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/clickstick-deodorant/35025/pictures">20 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/clickstick-deodorant/35025/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/clickstick-deoderant.jpg" title="Just what the world needs: self-illuminating deodorant" alt="Just what the world needs: self-illuminating deodorant"/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> A new Kickstarter campaign aims to make the deodorant stick more environmentally friendly by cutting back on plastic packaging. By replacing the disposable stick with a reusable dispenser, ClickStick's designers claim plastic waste is cut by as much as 90 percent. That's a sound idea, but one that risks undoing its good work by overcomplicating a simple product.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/clickstick-deodorant/35025/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="34978"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/geneco-bio-bus/34978/">Poo-powered bus splashes down in the UK</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/stu-robarts/">Stu Robarts</a></div> <div class="date">November 28, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/geneco-bio-bus/34978/#comments">3 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/geneco-bio-bus/34978/pictures">5 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/geneco-bio-bus/34978/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/geneco-bio-bus.jpg" title="The Geneco Bio-Bus is powered by gas produced from human and food waste" alt="The Geneco Bio-Bus is powered by gas produced from human and food waste"/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> One man's waste is another's man's bus fuel, so the saying might now go. Indeed, next time people in the UK go for a number two, they could be powering the number two bus. Geneco's new Bio-Bus is powered by gas generated via the treatment of sewage and food waste.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/geneco-bio-bus/34978/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="34958"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/building-heat-mirror-photonic-radiative-cooling/34958/">Mirror coating to cool buildings by pumping interior heat into space</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">November 26, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/building-heat-mirror-photonic-radiative-cooling/34958/#comments">9 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/building-heat-mirror-photonic-radiative-cooling/34958/pictures">2 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/building-heat-mirror-photonic-radiative-cooling/34958/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/heat-mirror.jpg" title="The Stanford material cools buildings by both reflecting sunlight and radiating interior h..." alt="The Stanford material cools buildings by both reflecting sunlight and radiating interior h..."/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> Keeping buildings cool isn't easy. In fact, conventional air conditioning methods are very energy intensive and account for up to 15 percent of the energy used in buildings in the United States alone. However, engineers at Stanford University have come up with a new ultrathin, multilayered, nanophotonic material that not only reflects heat away from buildings, but also directs heat from inside out into space, cooling both the building and the planet as well.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/building-heat-mirror-photonic-radiative-cooling/34958/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="34942"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/albatern-wavenet-squid-floating-wave-energy/34942/">WaveNET – the floating, flexible wave energy generator</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/loz-blain/">Loz Blain</a></div> <div class="date">November 26, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/albatern-wavenet-squid-floating-wave-energy/34942/#comments">16 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/albatern-wavenet-squid-floating-wave-energy/34942/pictures">24 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/albatern-wavenet-squid-floating-wave-energy/34942/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/albatern-wavenet-squid-floating-wave-energy.jpg" title="WaveNET - a floating, flexible, modular and massively scalable wave power generation idea ..." alt="WaveNET - a floating, flexible, modular and massively scalable wave power generation idea ..."/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> Scotland's Albatern is putting a new, modular spin on renewable energy generation. WaveNET is a scalable array of floating "Squid" generator units that harvest wave energy as their buoyant arms rise and fall with the motion of the waves. Each Squid can link up to as many as three others, effectively creating a large, floating grid that's flexible in every direction. The bigger this grid gets, the more efficient it becomes at harvesting energy, and the more different wave movements it can extract energy from. Albatern's 10-year target is to have 1.25 kilometer-long floating energy farms pumping out as much as 100 megawatts by 2024.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/albatern-wavenet-squid-floating-wave-energy/34942/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="34794"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/google-overfishing-global-fishing-watch/34794/">Google joins the effort to combat overfishing, with Global Fishing Watch</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/chris-wood/">Chris Wood</a></div> <div class="date">November 17, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/google-overfishing-global-fishing-watch/34794/#comments">8 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/google-overfishing-global-fishing-watch/34794/pictures">3 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/google-overfishing-global-fishing-watch/34794/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/google-overfishing-global-fishing-watch.png" title="Google helped develop the new tool, which aims to help tackle the problem of overfishing" alt="Google helped develop the new tool, which aims to help tackle the problem of overfishing"/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> Google has partnered with SkyTruth and Oceana to produce a new tool to track global fishing activity. Known as Global Fishing Watch, the interactive web tool uses satellite data to provide detailed vessel tracking, and aims to harness the power of citizen engagement to tackle the issue of overfishing.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/google-overfishing-global-fishing-watch/34794/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="34698"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/biofuel-whiskey-dregs/34698/">Celtic Renewables raises a toast to science with whiskey-waste biofuel</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/john-anderson/">John Anderson</a></div> <div class="date">November 11, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/biofuel-whiskey-dregs/34698/#comments">6 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/biofuel-whiskey-dregs/34698/pictures">7 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/biofuel-whiskey-dregs/34698/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/celtic-renewables-8.jpg" title="Professor Martin Tangney, director of the Biofuel Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier Univ..." alt="Professor Martin Tangney, director of the Biofuel Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier Univ..."/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> If worries over the environment are keeping you from the local pub, then it’s time to raise a glass. Scottish start-up Celtic Renewables, based in Edinburgh, has achieved proof of concept in producing biofuel and other useful products from the waste by-products of the country’s £4.3 billion (US$6.8 billion) whisky industry.  <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/biofuel-whiskey-dregs/34698/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="34634"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2> <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/sensor-fish-hydro-dams-pnnl/34634/">Sensor Fish show how hydroelectric dams will affect salmon</a> </h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/author/john-anderson/">John Anderson</a></div> <div class="date">November 8, 2014</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/sensor-fish-hydro-dams-pnnl/34634/#comments">3 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/sensor-fish-hydro-dams-pnnl/34634/pictures">6 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20141203022901/http://www.gizmag.com/sensor-fish-hydro-dams-pnnl/34634/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20141203022901im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/sensorfish-6.jpg" title="The Ice Harbor Dam in Washington state where Sensor Fish testing is done" alt="The Ice Harbor Dam in Washington state where Sensor Fish testing is done"/> </a> <div class="summary"> <p> It’s a tough row to hoe for young salmon in the Pacific Northwest as they make their perilous journey from upriver to the ocean. Besides hungry birds and sea lions, the regions many hydroelectric dams and their swirling turbines produce manmade currents and other obstacles that make it challenging for the fish to navigate. 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