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Rubbish Houses as Commercial Opportunities 2007-12-11 00:30:22 Concrete is the most widely-used construction material with over ten billion tons produced annually. About 7% of global CO2 emissions come from concrete production. The primary source of these emissions generated by concrete manufacturing is Portland cement, responsible for about 77% of total CO2 emissions. Now a sustainable substitute for concrete is being developed by civil engineer Dr. John Forth from the School of Engineering, University of Leeds, in the UK. Read more:Opportunities
, Commercial
Clothes Swapping as a Green Venture 2007-12-10 00:23:00 According to the EPA, approximately 4.5%, or 4 million tons of all waste sent to municipal landfills is comprised of textiles. The majority originated from household sources and known as post-consumer waste. Ninety-nine percent of used textiles are recyclable. Textile and clothing recycling can give used clothes and linens a second life and reduces the amount of waste going into landfills. Almost half of all post-consumer textile waste that is recovered is recycled to be used again. Read more:Venture
, Green
, Clothes
Windbelt. An innovative energy generator 2007-12-07 00:15:35 Wind power has traditionally centered around rotation. Dutch wind mills for pounding grain, rotating sail designs for pumping water, and most recently rotating turbine-based generators for creating electricity. These approaches work fine for the big picture applications for which they were designed. However, on the small scale, rotating systems have big problems. Efficiency losses in gear boxes, decreased efficiency of miniaturized airfoils and the need for specialized bearings to reduce wear.
Recycle Airports for a Living 2007-12-21 01:29:35 In August, 2005, Recycle
d Materials Company, Inc. ( RMCI ) of Arvada, Colorado completed the demolition and removal of 6.5 million tons of concrete and asphalt hardscape at the former Stapleton International Airport in Denver , Colorado. That is enough aggregate to build the Hoover Dam! It took the company six full years to complete the task, dubbed 'World's Largest Recycling Project'. Read more:Living
, Airports
Eat your food with ... a Potatoe? 2007-12-20 01:40:48 Currently, huge volumes of paper, plastic and Styrofoam cutlery, tableware and food packaging are used and disposed of each year. To give an idea of the scale, an estimated 39 billion items of disposable cutlery are used in the US alone each year.
However, technological developments in the area of bioplastics and fiber processing mean that a new range of alternatives based on safe, biodegradable, and annually renewable raw materials are available.
Profit from the Greenhouse Effect 2007-12-19 01:39:09 Large areas of the world already suffer from drought while deserts and populations increase in size. Demand for fresh water has doubled in the last 20 years and as demand outstrips renewable supply, the depletion of ground water is accelerated.
Agriculture accounts for 70% of fresh water used globally. This percentage is often higher in regions that suffer from chronic water shortages. In the Middle East and North Africa, for example, up to 90% of available water is used in agriculture.
Save money with the Ecostrip 2007-12-18 01:24:41 If your desk is like everybody else, you have all sorts of power sucking gadgets sitting around that draw power whether your computer is on or off. A new surge protector called the USB Ecostrip can help you stop the energy drain. It helps the forgetful mind to power down other devices that shares the same power strip each time the PC is shut down. This is a great invention for those who want to go green at home and at the office.
Cow Power 2008-03-11 02:40:19 Biogas typically refers to a gas produced by the biological breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. It is comprised primarily of methane and carbon dioxide. It can be combusted with oxygen and the energy release allows biogas to be used as a fuel. Considered a renewable fuel and electricity produced from it can be used to attract renewable energy subsidies in some parts of the world.
The Green Dating Game 2008-03-10 02:51:18 One in five American singles looks for love on the web, spending hundreds of millions on online dating and personal ads. With the right moves, your Ideal hemp-wearing hiker-boy or vegan vixen is just a few clicks away.
If you're trying to find an environmentally conscious babe or reach for the eco-hottie, now you can choose from therapists to backwoods grizzly mountain guys and gals by joining the new niche Dating
Sites. Read more:Green
Recycle your Airplane and Get Rich 2008-03-07 00:38:03 The innovative people over at MotoArt recycle old airplanes into functional art. This small international company is located in Southern California, at Torrance Airport. They salvage airplane parts - propellers, engines, wheels, doors - into furniture. Last year the company sold $1.5 million worth and business is soaring. Read more:Recycle
, Airplane
EcoMom Alliance: Leveraging the Power of Mothers 2008-03-06 00:24:14 US mothers alone, more than 82 million strong, control 85 percent of household spending, according to the Marketing to Moms Coalition, amounting to about USD 2.1 trillion annually. It’s hard to imagine a much better place to start enabling real global change. The EcoMom Alliance
aims to tap the power of that demographic for no lesser a goal than to help fight global warming. Read more:Mothers
Flush your Toilet for Electricity 2008-03-13 02:48:40 At San Francisco's Cleantech Forum, a conference of investors and innovators focused on the green technology business, a boatload of early stage startups seek to carve off a slice of the billions of dollars venture capitalists are investing in green tech.
One participant, Leviathan Energy, based in Los Angeles and Israel, has created a turbine that would create power from the downward flow in municipal water and sewer systems. In other words, whenever you flush, you'd be helping generate electricity. Read more:Toilet
Little Known Green Secret: Retailers Recycle Used Clothes 2008-03-12 02:19:00 Whether it's printer cartridges, beverage containers, cell phones, eyeglasses, plastic bags or clothing, recycling products benefits not just the environment but also pretty much everyone involved. Thanks to increased consumerism, discarded clothing for instance, finds its way into landfills at an alarming rate, including one million tons of the stuff each year in the UK alone. Read more:Green
, Recycle
, Clothes
Can You Make Money with Envelopes? 2008-03-14 02:36:49 More than 80 billion return envelopes are sent through the US mail each year in direct mailings such as credit-card statements, utility bills and other at an estimated cost of 1 billion pounds in greenhouse gas emissions and more than 71 trillion BTUs of energy. A company has come up with cost-effective, simple-to-use solution that eliminates the need for a separate reply mail envelope and helps to conserve precious resources. Read more:Money
Money Blowing in the Wind 2008-03-18 02:33:05 There are so many countries in the world that, despite being surrounded by ocean, suffer a serious lack of drinking water. A windmill designed at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands is capable of turning salt water into pure, clean drinking water. Read more:Money
The Best Way to Find Green Stuff 2008-03-17 02:20:04 For architects and industrial designers, finding sustainable materials to use in building projects has long been a challenge, with providers and information scattered all across the web. They spend great deal of time and money trying to answer three important questions: where to find sustainable materials, what makes them sustainable, and who else is using them and how. Read more:Green
How to Improve your Birthday Parties and Help the Planet 2008-03-20 02:53:02 Children birthday parties can be extremely wasteful affairs, leaving in their wake piles of disposable dishes and cutlery, bags of plastic packaging and torn wrapping paper, and a bunch of mediocre and useless gifts the child could probably do without. Is there a way to turn your child's next birthday gathering into a celebration of the planet? Read more:Improve
, Birthday
Profits that Lie Hidden in the Bathroom 2008-03-19 02:56:41 The average plastic container purchased today will live more than 10,000 times longer than its original owner, but consumers who today purchase the latest biodegradable plastic bath accessories can take comfort that these plastic goods, with proper disposal, will safely decompose within a matter of months. Read more:Hidden
Find the Green by Recycling Carpets 2008-03-21 02:43:17 USA residents dispose of approximately 1.4 million metric tons (over 3 billion pounds) of used carpet every year. One third of this amount is in the form of nylon face fiber, which represents one of the largest end uses for nylon. This is a large opportunity for the recovery of nylon after carpets have served their useful life. Read more:Green
, Recycling
, Carpets
Plant your Own Fortune 2008-03-24 03:31:16 Current human building techniques implement dead or artificial material, which has little or no interaction with its surroundings. Modern ecological points of view however, focus on the interaction between organisms and their environment, human beings not being excepted from this rule. Read more:Plant
, Fortune
Sustainable Marketing: Plant this Letter 2008-03-27 02:33:29 Honda, in an attempt to show that it can go green, sent customers of its lawn and garden equipment, a letter that literally grows. Printed on a special paper that contains seeds, the text invites the readers to plant the letter, to help neutralize the carbon in the atmosphere. The seeds contained within the letter grow into flowers and both the envelop and the paper were 100% recycled, acid-free and environmentally-friendly. Read more:Sustainable
, Marketing
, Plant
, Letter
Make a Fortune with Self-Cleaning Fabrics 2008-03-26 03:20:39 If you hate washing socks, are worried about hygiene or resent spending money on dry cleaning: self cleaning forms of wool and silk have been developed with the help of nanotechnology. Wool socks, skirts and silk ties may soon clean themselves of smells and stains in the sunshine, researchers in Australia suggest. Read more:Fortune
, Cleaning
Make Millions with Rechargeable Batteries 2008-03-25 02:30:03 More than 15 billion batteries are thrown away each year, and with the increasing demand for portable power by electronic devices, the battery has not caught up with the needs of modern life.
Traditional rechargeable batteries have never been truly portable as they are dependent on chargers or adaptors, and so most consumers prefer single use alkaline cells. Read more:Rechargeable
More Bang for Your Walk 2008-03-28 02:41:29 Ever wished you could charge your cell phones and laptop on the go - in your car, on a train, or just walking around? There are many new gadgets for mobile renewable energy and one of the the most future-forward new mobile renewable energy device is the kinetic energy charger from M2E Power, Inc.
Make Millions, Recycle your Pee 2008-03-31 02:40:24 We think of human pee as gross and something that ought to be vigorously “cleaned up” or sanitized. However, human urine is actually sterile (unlike faeces, urine is bacteria-free). This liquid by product of our daily lives can be a rich food source if it gets into the RIGHT part of the right ecosystem. Now, most human urine travels untreated into the waterways and the excess Nitrogen and Phosphorus in our urine overfeeds algae (like Red Tide) and effectively suffocates fish. Read more:Recycle
A Business Sensation: Rescue by Design 2008-04-02 03:06:11 More than 700,000 carpet samples ship every year, helping architects and interior designers move closer to choosing the perfect carpet for installation into their projects. Too often, after they've served their purpose, they are destined for the landfill. Ample Sample 2008 challenges designers to 'Rethink. Reuse. Upcycle', and repurpose these samples. Read more:Business
, Sensation
, Rescue
Recycle your Shellfish for Money 2008-04-07 01:20:55 Discarded lobster, mussel and clam shells usually end up in landfills. But now a creative artisan from Maine turn them into unusually beautiful serving pieces and tabletops. She makes them by crushing shells into a composite-like material and layering them to create beautiful and unique items. Read more:Recycle
, Money
Entrepreneur Strikes Gold with Everest's Trash 2008-04-09 01:29:39 Hundreds of climbers have been drawn to Mount Everest
by the challenge of climbing to the top of the world. All these hikers rely on oxygen because the air at the summit has only one-third of the oxygen found at sea level. Over the years, hundreds of bottles piled up along with discarded climbing gear and other trash. It was common practice for climbers to dump gear to save weight on the way down. Read more:Entrepreneur
, Strikes
, Trash
The New Green Great Pyramid 2008-04-11 01:28:17 The Egyptian pyramids were built for eternity but only for one single person: the great Pharaoh. A green project called The GreatPyramid
is open to every individual and can potentially be any human being’s grave or memorial site. As monumental as it is affordable, it serves all nationalities and religions. Individuals who are either unwilling or unable to have their ashes buried there can also opt to have a memorial stone placed instead. These can be custom designed with any number of colors, images, or relief decorations. It will continue to grow with every stone placed, eventually forming the largest structure in the history of mankind. Read more:Green
Grow Your Own Diesel 2008-04-14 01:41:13 The tropical rainforest tree Copaifera langsdorffii is known as the 'diesel tree' or 'kerosene tree'. It produces a large amount of terpene hydrocarbons in its wood and leaves. One tree can produce 30 to 40 liters of hydrocarbons per year. The oil is collected by tree tapping much like rubber trees, but instead of rubbery latex, it gives up a natural biodiesel.
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