Every year, humans throw away millions of plastic bottles that unfortunately will not be recycled as a result of sporting events, festivals and concerts. While many innovations such as the sale of reusable water bottles and having water refill stations throughout an event, Skipping Rock Lab’s Ooho seeks to target and reduce this source of one-time-use waste with an innovative sustainable edible water container meant for one-time-uses.

The little Ooho pocket of water is created by dipping frozen balls of liquid into an alga...

Assuming you don't use harsh laundry detergent or chlorine bleach in your washing machine, a laundry-to-landscape system can be an effective method of reusing greywater to water trees and plants. At its simplest, removing the discharge hose from the washing machine from the house drain, and connecting it to a longer run of hose that can reach your yard, will enable you to reuse greywater every time you do the laundry. This method has to be manually managed (or you run the risk of creating a bog in your yard from always di...