Less than 20 percent of the energy that goes into a solar panel is turned into electricity. Global researchers are therefore focused on boosting the efficiency of these panels. Recently, Saudi Arabia researchers used one-of-a-kind hydrogel to make a solar-driven system and successfully grew spinach by using the water from […]
Walmart recently announced that they’ve started investing in vertical farming. The international retailer and the single biggest company globally (by revenue and number of employees) invested in Plenty, an indoor vertical farm startup based in San Francisco. Walmart will stock up the leafy greens of the startup at all of […]
On a yearly basis, the Environmental Working Group publishes a list with the 12 produce items with the highest level of pesticide residue of veggies and fruits tested by the USDA. Believe it or not, in 2017, 178 distinct types of pesticides were discovered in the tested products. And, 70 […]
In hot climates, food cannot maintain its freshness for long. In fact, tomatoes will go off in two days and carrots and okra in four will be rotten. Hence, when we do not protect crops in the right way, we are losing produce. But, this does not have to happen […]
Fruits come in different types of natural and sweet flavors and unlike artificial candy and other types of sweets, fruits supply us with a lot of important nutrients and vitamins. But, not all fruit we eat is healthy and a lot of the fruits we eat on the daily are […]
As seen on Expand Your Consciousness, magnesium is a mineral which is present in all bodily cells and it participates in more than 300 enzymatic processes, including the production of energy. Magnesium is vital for bone density, cardiac rhythm, pulmonary function, and blood glucose regulation. Unfortunately, nowadays, more and more […]