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Eco Products has launched a full line of biodegradable food containers made from corn.These containers are made from NatureWorks PLA, a 100% corn-based resin that is full compostable. Throw it in your compost bin when you’re finished and watch it biodegrade in 45-60 days. These containers are for cold and warm foods only and cannot be exposed to heat over 110 degrees.

Mana Bernardes is a young jewelry designer, poet, and visual artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the jewelry designer behind the Mana line included in the TOUCH on-line gallery. She brings new meaning to the term creative re-use, finding the idea of luxury in mundane household objects like toothpicks and hairclips or cutting pieces out of used phone cards and PET bottles to be used as discs for her jewelry.

It is true that you can recycle anything, and make a profit. Consider prisons, which are probably the last places on Earth most of us would want to spend the night. Instead of demolishing these building when they get out of commission, clever entrepreneurs have converted notoriously terrifying prisons into luxurious 5 star hotels where you can cozily enjoy a stay. Without changing the old look, they have kept the wrought iron stairwell and many of the original jail bars and bare walls.

Water resources in the world are scarce and unevenly distributed. In deserts, the only source of water is groundwater, often saline and of poor quality. This limits agricultural activities. In those places where farming does occur, groundwater levels have dropped dangerously due to overexploitation. However, a group of European scientists has come up with a method to green deserts. Gypsum, a rocky mineral abundant in desert regions where fresh water is usually in very short supply, could become a new resource out of which trillions of liters of clean drinking water can be extracted.

"Open source" is a term that's used mostly in Software, no so in the fashion world. A new German label, however, has embraced the principles of open source in its launch of a new line of eco-conscious clothing. Eco clothing lines are increasingly common, but the sharing of designs takes it into new territory in the fashion world.

Vinyl is one of the largest-volume plastics used in the United States. Some 15 billion pounds are produced annually. About 70 percent is made into durable building and construction products such as pipe, windows and siding. Some of the material is also used commonly as car upholstery. Once the auto has reached it's useful life, the material is discarded to the landfill.

Most biodiesel today is made from soybeans or recycled vegetable oil and does not offer the same performance as petroleum-based diesel. A California startup engineers microbes to transform them into molecular oil refineries, digesting sugar to produce low-carbon equivalents of petroleum based fuel.

A teenage prodigy has developed a new way to decompose plastic bags in just three months!

Companies where you can find sustainable and green items for all your recycling needs, organic tastes and eco-desires. Targeting affluent, eco-minded consumers, they aim to provide one-stop shopping for everything a healthy, green and sustainable lifestyle requires.

Many people who lived near rivers and oceans have used fish skin throughout history. It's not an original idea and tanned fish skins have long been used in Russia and Japan, where they were employed to bind sword handles. What's new is the way these discards are put to use in this brave new world. Two of them show a promising future.

A new chair is made from the remnants of old to produce a unique piece, full of character. Drawers are constructed out of discarded pieces, found and rescued from flea markets. Reuse pieces from different origin and assemble them into new functional and distinct items, giving new life to discarded furniture.

Biodegradable plates from VerTerra (true to the Earth) are a great alternative to yucky paper or plastic dishes. These plates are made from organically-grown palm tree leaves from India. The fallen leaves, which would traditionally have been burned on the roadside, are collected, sterilized, steamed and pressed into plates. The process uses no chemicals, glues or bonding agents, and over 80% of the water employed during the steaming and pressing process is recaptured and recycled.

What do you do on those moments when you get the urge for number two on the road, but don’t have access to a proper toilet? Just like you wouldn’t leave your dog’s poop on the side of the road, you shouldn’t leave a heap of your own either. Instead of scooping, try these disposable portable corrugated recycled cardboard toilets.

Our appetite for electronic goods, especially cell phones and computers, is so voracious, we are now threatening to deplete valuable resources and generate huge amounts of toxic materials at the same time. Recycling of electronic goods, when it happens, is difficult, potentially hazardous and immensely labor intensive.

Thanks to Al Gore, we all know by now about the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting impact on global climate. Now, 2 researchers from UCSD have developed a prototype device that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy and “split” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen.