food source Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:27:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 8 Sustainable Weeds You Can Eat https://www.greenoptimistic.com/weeds-you-can-eat/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/weeds-you-can-eat/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:20:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56045 Don’t let that biomass go to waste! Weeds are not good for the garden, but not all of them need to be thrown away. Some can actually be used as a food source. With all the pesticides and other methods of keeping weeds away, simply eating them seems like a much more sustainable way of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/weeds-you-can-eat/feed/ 0 56045 Geobacter Microbe Produces Electricity From Mud and Wastewater https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4294 Derek Lovley, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently experimented with a microbe named "Geobacter", who loves to live in sediments and mud, and whose hairlike filaments can produce electricity from the muddy environment it loves to live in.

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