You wake up one morning, head to the kitchen and place a tea bag in your cup. Are you drinking green, black, oolong? Or is that tea bag filled with activated carbon, leaving you not with tea but with clean drinking water? The newly designed "Tea Bag Water Filter" does just that. The filter uses a basic tea bag design to contain activated carbon, which can remove chemical … [Read more...] about Tea Bag Water Filter
Archives for January 2011
Banana Sushi – An Edible Solution to Dirty Water
We've written quite a few posts on natural water filters. Here are two more of nature's best water filtration methods, more recently implemented by researchers: Seaweed Water Purification Stamford professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, Charles Yarish, believes that seaweed could be the next revolutionary trend in water purification technology. His method, termed … [Read more...] about Banana Sushi – An Edible Solution to Dirty Water
Fight Obesity with Cleaner Air
A recent study by Ohio State researchers has concluded that air pollution may be one of the causes of obesity. A few months ago, we wrote about the link between soot and diabetes; Since obesity often leads to diabetes, this finding comes as no surprise. The study found that young mice exposed to air pollution had higher blood sugar levels, larger fat cells, and more fat … [Read more...] about Fight Obesity with Cleaner Air