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5 Eco-Friendly Spring Additions To Your Home

5 Eco-Friendly Spring Additions To Your Home

It's that time of year. We can finally open the windows to a nice warm breeze and hear the songbirds chirping - spring is here. With spring comes new beginnings and fresh starts. What better way to invite some of that energy into your home this season than with some eco-friendly additions?
5 Best Plant-Based Food Alternatives

5 Best Plant-Based Food Alternatives

With consumers ranging from the lifelong vegans to the occasional “plant curious” customer, how do you know what’s worth it and what’s not? Well, here’s a list of the top 5 plant-based products that Eco Four Twenty Co-Owner and long-time vegetarian, Andrea, swears by. 

Farm Demonstrating Sustainable Practices

Farm Demonstrating Sustainable Practices

Regenerative farming is a relatively new agricultural method, so there is a large importance on the ability to share this knowledge with others in the industry and educate not only professionals, but eventually the world, on how it is possible to take from the environment, while also giving something beneficial in return. Everyone at Eco Four Twenty is waiting for the day they can eat off a menu designed sustainably at Biohub!
How New York Is Sustainably Using Their Recycled Oyster Shells

How New York Is Sustainably Using Their Recycled Oyster Shells

Living Breakwaters, a new project of the New York government, aims to reverse the damage of centuries of overfishing one oyster larvae at a time. The initiative involves partnerships with New York's many restaurants and seafood bars, where post-consumer oyster shells are collected, sanitized and crushed. The remains are then cultured with larval stage oysters, who readily accept the crushed shell pieces as their forever home.
The Autonomous Ferry Making Waves in Norway

The Autonomous Ferry Making Waves in Norway

Cities and regions all over the world are constantly expanding the architecture of roadways to accommodate this increase in transport. However, the long and short term effects of these constructions are detrimental to the health and well-being of our ecosystem. 

The city of Trondheim, Norway, and Zeabuz have partnered to provide a free, zero-emission, autonomous water ferry to the tourists and citizens of the city to help solve the over-congested transport issue.