Tessa Love

The Volkswagon Mini Bus was the most popular vehicle for hippies, and soon it will be back with an all-electric drivetrain.

It can take up to 650 gallons of water to create just one cotton T-shirt, and manufacturing synthetic fibers causes pollution.

The French parliamnet has completely banned the extraction of oil and gas within the country's territories — meaning fracking, oil drilling and other extraction methods are prohibited.

A Japanese scientist is studying how moss can help reduce air pollution such as nitrogen pollution and other air quality concerns.

In Copenhagen, uture-living lab SPACE10 created the Algae Dome, a 13-foot-tall urban-dwelling structure that pumps out oxygen and produces food in a closed-loop system.

Each year, Americans throw away 13 million tons of textiles — about 85 percent of their clothes.

Sonic Drive-In is releasing its part-mushroom, part-beef burger in all of its 3,500-plus locations.

Plastic Whale Circular Furniture is made from plastic found in Amsterdam canals.

Some studies have shown that giving up meat would cause a bigger effect on climate change than giving up your car.

Fashion student takes it one step further and decided to grow his own clothes

Allbirds shoes do not use synthetic fibers in its shoes, but instead, natural trees and wool.

Swedish Stockings is "a sustainable hosiery brand for the modern, conscious woman."

Researchers at Michigan State University have had a breakthrough in solar technology that has led to a completely transparent solar material, which could turn your windows into solar panels.

Built in Jinan, the capital of China's Shandong Province, the solar panel highway stretches one kilometer and contains over 10,000 photovoltaic panels.

The Department of Energy is investing $40 million to build a facility off the Oregon coast.

In the U.S., it's estimated that we throw away 133 billion pounds of food every year. In the world, nearly one third of the total food produced ends up in the trash.

Rich Kelleman created Bond Pet Foods, which uses the most sustainable meat possible: the kind grown in a petri dish from animal cells.

Dutch designers Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros have created a 3D-printed bioplastic made from algae, which could replace products made from fossil fuels.

Abandoned coal mines around the world are getting a second life as sites for large-scale solar fames, like the 150-megawatt floating solar farm in Huanian.

The Caribbean will soon be home to the Itz'ana Resort & Residences, a luxury eco-resort in Belize that promises to be completely carbon neutral

San Diego husband and wife duo Farzan and Jen Dehmoubed invented the Lotus Trolley Bag — a reusable shopping bag hangs accordion style inside a shopping cart.

The Yala National Park in Sri Lanka now has a five-star luxury eco-resort called the Wild Coast Tented Lodge set between the beaches and the park's wilderness.

Tokyo Metro, Tokyo's most-used rapid transit system, is dabbling in hydroponic farming with Tokyo Salad, growing food where millions of people pass through every day.

Mutti, an Italian company that processes 300,000 tons of tomatoes annually, has unveiled plans to build a new factory out of thousands of glass tomato jars.

The prevalent shrub, known as the croton tree, that grows across Kenya could be the key to a sustainable source of biofuel, set to replace diesel.

The German city of Freiburg has created the Freiburg Cup, a reusable, plastic to-go cup with a disposable lid that customers can buy with a 1 euro deposit and return for re-use.

Nest Bedding is launching Bedgami, America's first cardboard platform bed, which can be assembled and dissembled without the use of tools.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, France is No. 1 when it comes to food waste policies.

In the quest to build sustainable batteries, Peter Carlsson may be the right guy for the job.

Paris-based architect Vincent Callebaut has unveiled a proposal for a new eco-resort preserving ecology in the Philippines while respecting the area's unique ecosystems.

A company in The Netherlands has successfully created the worlds first carbon neutral egg

Perth, Leith, and Edinburgh are three more cities in Scotland who have gained "Zero Waste Town" status — joining Dunbar and the Isle of Bute.

Until this point, most scientists put their focus on curbing carbon emissions as the number one solution.

Processed food travels an average of 1,300 miles before hitting your plate, expelling huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

NovoNutrients collects untreated carbon dioxide and other emissions from various industrial sources and pipes it into their plant.

Biolite has several products aimed at greening up your camp experience.

Farmwall utilizes a closed-loop, aquaponic system using water, fish, and sun to grow produce. It eliminates packaging waste and high food miles while introducing quality, freshness, and variety into Melbourne’s restaurants.

PG Tips is ditching its plastic-based teabags in favor of biodegradable ones made from 100 percent renewable, plant-based materials.

Repeat Roses is working to "green" the Oscars by making sure the parties' flowers don't make their way to the landfill.

More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year, polluting the water, killing ocean life, and eventually ending up in on our table in the form of shellfish and even salt.

Sam Chereskin and Whit Rigali founded Misadventure Vodka, which makes all its liquor from discarded starches.

Last October, scientists at Harper Adams University in Edgmond, England, decided to experiment with the prospect of creating a fully automated, robot-grown farm.

A genetic engineering startup has developed a technology with the power to transform agriculture: a self-fertilizing plant.

A team from the University of Central Florida has developed a nanomaterial that can release hydrogen from seawater much more cheaply and efficiently than existing methods, potentially giving us another way of unlocking this sustainable energy source.

Microsoft has struck a deal with General Electric to buy all of the energy.

Called the Eden-ISS, the farm is already under construction and will grow food for all who are stationed at the Neumayer III polar station on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf.

In the six years since Fukushima, dozens of Japanese towns have decentralized their power generation and storage systems, choosing instead to build independent micro-grids,

Food production is one of the biggest issues we must face globally. A new UK startup hopes to ease this worry by transforming fly larvae into a sustainable protein source for animals and, perhaps one day, humans.

Last year, India added more rooftop solar capacity than in the previous four years combined — adding 715 megawatts of solar power to the system.