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The Secret Formula of Pee-Powered Batteries 2008-04-16 01:24:43 Forget about rechargeable batteries that are plugged to a nearby electrical outlet - there are now Pee Powered batteries that are being tested in Japan. Dubbed the NoPoPo (Non-Pollution Power) Aqua Batteries, these will come in AA and AAA form factors. They are environmentally friendly and do not contain mercury or other harmful materials. Read more:Formula
Earn Millions Turning Pond Scum into Fuel 2008-04-18 02:16:09 Algae is the cheapest, highest yielding feedstock for biofuels and biomass for energy. It accumulates waste toxins, grows from polluting waste, does not require conversion of food crops to energy, does not lead to deforestation, and voraciously consumes carbon dioxide. Algae can produce lipid oils for biodiesel, carbohydrates necessary for ethanol, generate hydrogen, generate methane for electrical generation, be used as fertilizer, animal feed, and co-firing in coal electrical plants. Best of all, the energy produced by algae products is carbon neutral as the algae biomass is produced from CO2 in the atmosphere present today.
Recycle CO2 into DVDs and Get Rich 2008-04-21 01:27:15 Many of the things that we do increase the emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Whenever we burn a fossil fuel to drive our car, heat our homes, make hot water, or provide the electricity, we inject it into the atmosphere. Other industrial activities, such as manufacturing cement, emit significant amounts as well. What if we could take the CO2 from a power plant, and sequester it into commonly used, and quite resilient, products? Carbon based plastics are already sold each year, so they are not a new product. However, using emissions to create those plastics is a new and exciting idea. Read more:Recycle
Green Coke 2008-04-23 01:39:43 Coca Cola has invested $40 million in research and organized a coalition of companies that sell cold drinks and ice cream, including Unilever, McDonald's and PepsiCo. to attack the problem of conventional vending machines and coolers that keep drinks cold, run around-the-clock, rely on inefficient compressors and, worst of all, use HFCs, a potent greenhouse gas. Read more:Green
What Everybody Ought to Know About Pool Cleaning 2008-04-25 01:32:02 There is no magic way to clean a pool easily. It usually takes a lot of time, effort and money to clear up a typical 'swampy' pool. It is certainly best if you never let your water get this dirty, however most pool owners experience problems from time to time. If you, like most pool owners, hate to clean them, this is the best sustainable, inexpensive and cost effective solution today. Read more:Everybody
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How to Make Money with Discarded Flip-Flops 2008-04-28 01:47:17 The world is obliterated by many man-made products, momentarily useful and when discarded, they leave a nasty scar on the planet. It is often the poorest parts of the world that suffer the worst environmental degradation. The flip-flop is the most basic footwear for so many in the world, and every day thousands of these non-degradable pieces wash up on beaches around the globe, blighting the coastlines and the lives of local coastal people and the marine ecology. Read more:Money
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Make Big Bucks with Coffee Grounds 2008-04-30 01:34:04 Java-log was invented in 1998 by Rod Sprules, when one evening at his home, he conducted an experiment where he used dried coffee grounds from his coffee maker filter, combined it with candle wax and then compressed it with a pen into an old cigar tube. It burned so well that he made prototypes in a loaf pan and gave it to friends to try … the rest is history. Read more:Coffee
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Brew your Own BioFuel for $1 a Gallon 2008-05-02 01:55:06 Ethanol is a rather controversial technology. While many automotive companies are heavily investing in developing ethanol production, releasing ethanol vehicles, and building up the ethanol infrastructure, the process has been much maligned by the United Nations and academia. The UN and various professors have released regular statements blasting the technology for threatening to raise food prices on basic food stocks such as corn. They say that this is already happening, and is causing an increase in famine worldwide.
How to Profit from Algae: Power Plants of the Future 2008-05-05 01:29:32 Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generated, according to a Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study. The World desperately needs a liquid fuel replacement for oil in the near future, but producing ethanol or biodiesel from plant biomass is the wrong way to do it, because you use more energy to produce them than you get out from the combustion of these product. Read more:Plants
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The Business of Helping Green Prospectors 2008-05-07 01:31:18 The quest for alternative energy is the gold rush of the twenty-first century. And as with any gold rush, the companies that sell miners their picks and shovels are the ones with the best chance of success. FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs. Those reports show just how much wind or sunshine an area is likely to receive, based on years’ worth of meteorological data. Read more:Business
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The Pee-Cycling Business 2008-05-09 01:58:30 Urine is the main source of some of the chemical nutrients that have to be removed in sewage treatment plants if they are not to wreck ecosystems downstream. Despite making up only 1 per cent of the volume of waste water, urine contributes about 80 per cent of the nitrogen and 45 per cent of all the phosphate. Peeing into the pan immediately dilutes these chemicals with vast quantities of water, making the removal process unnecessarily inefficient. Read more:Cycling
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The Priceless Gift of Tree-Nation 2008-05-12 01:47:16 Tree-Nation is an ecological project with a focused objective: To plant 8 million trees in Niger, Africa to fight desertification. Large-scale plantation of trees will increase the land's productivity and re-generate the soil. It is also a is an online community in which you can buy your own tree and become its guardian. Read more:Priceless
Styrophobia.com Success Story 2008-05-14 01:58:15 73 billion Styrofoam cups/plates and 190 billion plastic containers and bottles are thrown away every year. Medical evidence suggests that chemicals, as benzene & styrene in EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam are carcinogenic and may leach into food and drink. EPS cups, containers and plastic bags, are a major source of pollution on our beaches - especially after a rainstorm. EPS breaks down int Read more:Success
Green Really Mattress 2008-05-16 01:35:22 Old mattresses are one of the largest consumer products that clutter landfills today. And, each of us has seen the sad old mattress on the side of the road. many mattresses today include polyurethane, formaldehyde and other materials with questionable effects on the environment and human health, Keetsa is an eco-bedding company that takes a thoroughly green approach to mattresses and other sleep p Read more:Green
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Does Size Really Matter? 2008-05-19 01:30:27 We've used wind as an energy source for a long time. The Babylonians and Chinese were using it to pump water for irrigating crops 4,000 years ago, and sailing boats were around long before that. Wind power was used in the Middle Ages to grind corn, which is where the term 'windmill' comes from.
Although wind currently produces just over 1% of world-wide electricity use, it accounts for approximate
Find Riches by Reusing your Sails 2008-05-22 02:46:13 The question “Where do all the old sails go? weighed heavy on the minds of two young entrepreneurs on the Atlantic shores of Maine. With this concern for reducing waste in mind, the founders re-appropriated the rugged elegance of the sail to create the best hand crafted bag around. Read more:Sails
Recycle Your Gold for a Profit 2008-05-21 01:33:48 Humans pollute the air in many ways, but the single most contaminating activity is mining for gold. According to the EPA, mercury pollution from trash incineration, hazardous waste collection, and mercury mining combined still does not add up to half the total amount of mercury pollution made by gold mining. After the metal has been mined, approximately 63 percent is used in jewelry, 21 percent a Read more:Recycle
Cashing In on Recycled Jeans 2008-05-26 01:24:29 All over the crafting and recycling world, old jeans are a precious commodity. There are many creative ways to recycle these, turning them from backpacks to book covers. Your jeans can be a fashion statement and a valuable natural resource at the same time. They are made from cotton which is natural, renewable and recyclable. It's also an excellent material for insulation. Read more:Recycled
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Get Rich Harvesting Fuel from CO2 Emissions 2008-05-28 03:05:07 Thanks to Al Gore, we all know by now about the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting impact on global climate.
Now, 2 researchers from UCSD have developed a prototype device that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy and “split” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen.
The Secret of Profitable Electronics Recycling 2008-06-02 01:32:27 Most consumer electronic products are manufactured from various materials and assembled in complex ways which makes them difficult to disassemble economically. Unless products can be disassembled and the different streams of materials separated to a component level, the product cannot be recycled. For this reason, they are disposed of in landfills. The hazardous portions of these products pose a s Read more:Profitable
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How to Make a Load of Money with the Shit Box 2008-06-04 01:41:33 What do you do on those moments when you get the urge for number two on the road, but don’t have access to a proper toilet?
Just like you wouldn’t leave your dog’s poop on the side of the road, you shouldn’t leave a heap of your own either. Instead of scooping, try these disposable portable corrugated recycled cardboard toilets. Read more:Money
Profits Hidden Under the Fallen Leaves 2008-06-06 01:38:02 Although it is much more convenient to throw away our used plates than to have a mountain of dirty dishes growing in the kitchen sink every day waiting to be washed. This convenience comes at a high price for our planet. Not only does the production and distribution of these plastics have ill-effects on the earth and those who occupy it, but our consistent usage of these plastics leads to an exces Read more:Hidden
, Fallen
Make Money with Frankenstein Eco-Design 2008-06-09 01:26:43 A new chair is made from the remnants of old to produce a unique piece, full of character. Drawers are constructed out of discarded pieces, found and rescued from flea markets. Reuse pieces from different origin and assemble them into new functional and distinct items, giving new life to discarded furniture. Read more:Money
Fishy Business: Discarded Fish Skin Fashion 2008-06-11 01:38:30 Many people who lived near rivers and oceans have used fish skin throughout history. It's not an original idea and tanned fish skins have long been used in Russia and Japan, where they were employed to bind sword handles. What's new is the way these discards are put to use in this brave new world. Two of them show a promising future. Read more:Fishy
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Discover the Green Depots 2008-06-13 01:31:37 Office Depot, Home Depot, Costco; they all are no frills environments with a simple merchandise presentation that reduces overhead costs and allows them to pass those savings on to the customer in the form of lower merchandise prices. The typical store has a dozen departments and an average size of about 100,000 square feet. Read more:Discover
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The Secret Formula to Decompose Plastic Bags in 3 Months 2008-06-16 01:31:58 Plastic bags cost more than 1.6 billion barrels of oil per year and leave the environment to foot the bill. Each year the world produces 500 billion bags, and Earth Resource Foundation states that “all the plastic that has been made is still around in smaller and smaller pieces.” Meanwhile the UN Environment Program estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter in every square mile Read more:Formula
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Make Billions from Sugarcane Biodiesel 2008-06-18 01:33:43 Most biodiesel today is made from soybeans or recycled vegetable oil and does not offer the same performance as petroleum-based diesel. A California startup engineers microbes to transform them into molecular oil refineries, digesting sugar to produce low-carbon equivalents of petroleum based fuel. Read more:Billions
Strike Gold With Biodegradable Picnic Ware 2008-07-02 02:43:29 If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise because the whole place will probably be littered with plastic plates, cups and utensils left behind by lazy picnickers. Most supermarkets stock a choice of paper plates, napkins and disposable plastic cutlery in cheerful designs; but they're mostly eco-unfriendly plastic utensils. Read more:Picnic
Recycled Luxury 2008-06-30 04:02:02 Mana Bernardes is a young jewelry designer, poet, and visual artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the jewelry designer behind the Mana line included in the TOUCH on-line gallery. She brings new meaning to the term creative re-use, finding the idea of luxury in mundane household objects like toothpicks and hairclips or cutting pieces out of used phone cards and PET bottles to be used as discs Read more:Recycled
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Recycle your Prison: Book a 5 Star Jail Cell 2008-06-27 01:31:36 It is true that you can recycle anything, and make a profit. Consider prisons, which are probably the last places on Earth most of us would want to spend the night. Instead of demolishing these building when they get out of commission, clever entrepreneurs have converted notoriously terrifying prisons into luxurious 5 star hotels where you can cozily enjoy a stay. Without changing the old look, th Read more:Recycle
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