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Make a Fortune with Self-Cleaning Fabrics
2008-03-27 00:00:00 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. More About: Fortune , Cleaning , Make , Save the World , Fabrics
Make Millions with Rechargeable Batteries
2008-03-26 00:00:00 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. More About: Electronics , Batteries , Make , Millions
Plant your Own Fortune
2008-03-25 00:00:00 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. More About: Fortune , Save the World , Plant
Find the Green by Recycling Carpets
2008-03-21 00:00:00 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. More About: Recycling , Green , Find , Carpets , Plastics
How to Improve your Birthday Parties and Help the Planet
2008-03-21 00:00:00 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? More About: Planet , Parties , Birthday , Improve , Save the World
Profits that Lie Hidden in the Bathroom
2008-03-19 00:00:00 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. More About: Bathroom , Profits , Hidden , Plastics
The Best Way to Find Green Stuff
2008-03-18 00:00:00 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. More About: Green , Stuff , Find , Save the World
Money Blowing in the Wind
2008-03-18 00:00:00 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. More About: Money , Wind , Alternative Energy
Flush your Toilet for Electricity
2008-03-14 00:00:00 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. More About: Electricity , Flush , Alternative Energy , Toilet
Can You Make Money with Envelopes?
2008-03-14 00:00:00 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. More About: Money , Make Money , Make , Save the World
Little Known Green Secret: Retailers Recycle Used Clothes
2008-03-12 00:00:00 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. More About: Clothes , Green , Secret , Recycle , Retailers
The Green Dating Game
2008-03-11 00:00:00 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. More About: Green , Game
Cow Power
2008-03-11 00:00:00 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. More About: Power , Alternative Energy
Recycle your Airplane and Get Rich
2008-03-08 00:00:00 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. More About: Rich , Airplane , Recycle
EcoMom Alliance: Leveraging the Power of Mothers
2008-03-07 00:00:00 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. More About: Power , Mothers , Save the World
Harvesting Energy from Space
2008-03-05 00:00:00 Solar energy is considered one of the cleanest and most abundant sources of alternative energy. It can be converted into other forms of energy, such as heat and electricity. However The major disadvantages are that the amount of sunlight that arrives at the earth's surface is not constant. It depends on location, time of day, time of year, and weather conditions. Because the sun doesn't deliver that much energy to any one place at any one time, a large surface area is required to collect the energy at a useful rate. More About: Space , Energy , Alternative Energy
Music to Our Green Ears
2008-03-05 00:00:00 Music festivals are extremely popular entertainment events across the planet and since the days of Woodstock, they have taken a large toll on the environment. Mountains of waste, car parks, food from afar, diesel generators for electricity, massive amounts of plastic and human waste, flying in international artists. In an effort to do less harm, several music festivals around the world have started putting 'carbon neutral' practices into place, offsetting the carbon dioxide they've caused to enter the atmosphere. More About: Music , Green , Save the World , Ears
Harness Energy from Traffic
2008-03-04 00:00:00 An Arizona State University student has proposed a very novel way of re-capturing some of the energy expended by vehicles moving at high speeds on our nations highways. We all know how much air turbulence is generated by vehicles moving at speed particularly trucks. This would involve mounting horizontal wind turbines above the roadway that would be driven by the moving air generated by the passing traffic. The electricity generated by spinning these turbines could be fed back into the grid. More About: Traffic , Energy , Alternative Energy , Harness
The Priceless Gift of Green Graffiti
2008-03-02 00:00:00 Guerilla gardening has a new meaning as street artist Edina Tokodi grows site-specific moss installations of animal figures on wooden construction planks, utility poles, and billboards. Her idea of graffiti, or 'grassfiti' rather, invites the viewer to explore with touch and reclaim a bond with nature. These works of greenery really pop in contrast to the surrounding condo-clustered Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg More About: Graffiti , Green , Gift , Priceless
The Priceless Gift of Green Graffiti
2008-03-02 00:00:00 Guerilla gardening has a new meaning as street artist Edina Tokodi grows site-specific moss installations of animal figures on wooden construction planks, utility poles, and billboards. Her idea of graffiti, or 'grassfiti' rather, invites the viewer to explore with touch and reclaim a bond with nature. These works of greenery really pop in contrast to the surrounding condo-clustered Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg More About: Graffiti , Green , Gift , Priceless
The Easiest Way to Recycle Clothing
2008-03-02 00:00:00 According to the statistics, 386 million pounds of textiles enter the NYC waste stream annually, or about 6% of total waste. Wearable Collections is a charity initiative leading the effort to reduce textile waste in a city traditionally known for disposable, seasonal trendy styles. The organization is placing recycling bins in designated buildings throughout New York for the collection of unwanted garments and clothing. More About: Clothing , Recycle
Social Ride-Sharing: A Green Alternative to Carpooling
2008-03-02 00:00:00 Carpooling reduces the costs involved in repetitive or long distance driving. It is good for the environment because it decreases the number of automobiles circulating on the roads, diminishing the exhaust of Green house gases, and so on. It is a simple way for individuals to take part in the climate change challenge while saving money and conserving energy along the way. More About: Social , Alternative , Ride , Sharing
The Best Way to Stop Junk Mail
2008-02-26 00:00:00 Anything good in your regular paper mail today? Maybe some checks, a magazine,.. some bills. What about the rest of all that junk?.. Have you ever thought about how much crap you get a year? Luckily a company has come along that not only knows how much junk mail you receive,.. but they figured out a way to stop it! More About: Mail , Stop , Junk , Junk Mail
Harvest Energy from the Rain
2008-02-26 00:00:00 Rain in one of our main supply of fresh water and has a tremendous importance in the distribution of plant and animal life in this planet, but in congested, over-paved metropolitan cities, most of this precipitation is wash down gutters and wasted. Rain collection has been one method used to gather this gift from the sky and now a new method tries to capture the kinetic energy associated with the falling raindrops. More About: Energy , Rain , Harvest
The Business of Green Sex Toys
2008-02-26 00:00:00 Sex toys have gone mainstream and now budding consumer and environmental awareness campaigns are being waged over them. The biggest concern is about the plastics materials from which many are made from. Most vibrators, dildos and ?love dolls,? ( especially the soft, pliable ?jelly? type ) incorporate one or more members of a family of compounds called phthalates. These compounds are ubiquitous, being used in perfumes, hair sprays, plastic raincoats, carpet backing, paints, medical devices and many other items. They are responsible for that ?new car smell,? which goes to show you how much plastic is used in cars. More About: Business , Toys , Green , Save the World
Let's make a Deal at the Eco Malls
2008-02-20 00:00:00 Forget the neo-hippy fairs and eco chic enclaves, why not just make an entire mall eco-friendly? Chicago will do just that with the Green Exchange, which has been hyped as the world's first eco mall, when it opens sometime this year. The 250,000 square foot building will hold approximately 100 vendors. Asides from retailers, there will also be an organic cafe and restaurant, sustainable furniture store, service providers and designers. More About: Deal , Make , Save the World , Malls
Cashing In on Green Weddings
2008-02-20 00:00:00 Going green is a growing trend in the multimillion-dollar wedding industry, and businesses are cashing in big. Around the world, caterers are offering pesticide-free menus and web sites help newlyweds set up donations to charities that benefit the environment, so guests have an alternative to heavily wrapped presents. More About: Weddings , Green , Save the World
Toys for Rent: The Green Sensation
2008-02-20 00:00:00 One thing that seems to get worse as children gets older is toys accumulation. They occupy every available space, filling up closets, bursting out of drawers, clogging up bookshelves, overflowing shelves, and stowed in every available nook and cranny. Fortunately, a creative entrepreneur has come out with a brilliant idea to solve this aggravating problem. More About: For Rent , Toys , Green , Rent
Online community for Sustainable Living
2008-02-17 00:00:00 People gather together online to date, gossip or lose weight. Now a new website called Greenopolis has created a community whose members help each other live in a more eco-friendly manner. The site, still in beta, allows registered visitors to complete a survey analyzing their daily activities to determine how ?green? their lifestyle is. Based on these findings users receive a colored badge, which shows other members just how eco-friendly they really are. Orange badge holders need to clean up their environmental act, and solid green badge holders are on the right track More About: Living , Community , Sustainable Living , Online , Save the World
Dog Waste Millionaires
More articles from this author:2008-02-17 00:00:00 For as long as the dog has been man's best friend, dog waste has posed a menace to man's nose and foot, not to mention it's an environmental pollutant. At some beaches, dogs help raise bacteria levels so high that visitors must stay out of the water. These disease-causing bacteria that can make people sick and some cities have directed as much as $10,000 in the last few years to encourage dog owners to clean up after their pets. A few municipalities have started issuing citations to those who ignore pet clean-up ordinances. More About: Waste 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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