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Green Search Engines
2008-02-14 00:00:00
Google allows you now to customize their search engine to fit your particular needs, and many environmentally conscious websites are taking advantage of this feature. This let users search the Internet for trusted websites and news related to environmental and social values. If you search for socks, you get organic socks. If you search for cars, you get hybrid cars.
More About: Search Engines , Search , Green , Investments , Engines

Power by the People
2008-02-13 00:00:00
Recycling can be one of the best environmental success stories of the 21st century. It turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources and also makes good financial sense. From newspaper to old clothes and everything in between have been targeted for this effort. But one of the greatest untapped resource is Human Energy itself. Have you've ever wondered how much energy you are capable of putting using your own body? How about 100, 1000 or 10,000 people at the same time? Some revolutionary thinkers have been toying with this idea.
More About: Power , People , Alternative Energy , The People

Green On Fire!
2008-02-13 00:00:00
A fashion label from Cologne Germany, produces exclusive bags, belts and wallets from used Fire Department hoses. With a high strength woven polyester exterior and a rubberized inner surface, this material is extremely durable. The hoses are carefully sorted, cleaned and cut and together with other high-quality materials are worked by hand. Due to long service for the Fire Department each hose has its individual character and its own history.
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Rent a Book: Save Trees and Money
2008-02-09 00:00:00
Most trees used for books production come from so called 'managed timberlands'. These trees are an agricultural crop - like vegetables on a farm. They are grown to be made into products for human use. Not using paper in order to save trees is like not eating salad in order to ?save? vegetables. However, Tree farms are not biologically diverse and the result is a worldwide loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion.
More About: Money , Book , Trees , Save , Rent

Green and Mean
2008-02-08 00:00:00
This year's Detroit auto show is highlighting the 'greening' of the car business, with every imaginable fuel-saving technology, including hybrid electric, plug-in electric, fuel cell, diesel and direct gasoline injection. Automakers desperately tried to make converts by rolling out a parade of concept cars designed to run on renewable fuels like ethanol as well as dream machines that consume hydrogen or recharge from a wall plug. There is some definite progress, but the steps are generally smaller than headlines would have you believe.
More About: Green , Alternative Energy

Play with your Garbage
2008-02-07 00:00:00
Tiffany Tomato is one of the world?s most creative designers. She has created a series of do-it-yourself kits. Basically these provide everything you need - just add a bunch of recycled garbage and you get your own work of art, made all by yourself. Kits include: magazine envelopes (requires recycled magazine pages), a wine cork trivet (requires recycled wine corks), a bottle lamp (requires recycled soda bottles), and bottlecap magnets (requires recycled bottle caps).
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Save Trees and Money: Read an eBook
2008-02-06 00:00:00
Paper is a major component of every book and tends to be the focus of most environmental discussions in the book publishing industry. There are thousands of Books and magazines publishers in the world. The global impact of this is astonishing. For instance, if a publisher sells a million copies of an average 250-page book, it takes 12,000 trees to produce just this one title.
More About: Money , Ebook , Read , Trees , Save

How to Recycle Seaweed Plague and turn a Profit
2008-02-06 00:00:00
The paper making industry is widely regarded as one which pays little attention to the environmental effects of its activities. It is seen as using up land, trees, water and energy to make a final product which has a very short useful life. Since the 1970s, public opinion has put increasing pressure on these companies to improve their attitude to environmental issues but the industry still consumes large amounts of natural resources.
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Business Opportunities in Internet Energy Management
2008-02-01 00:00:00
While Google snags headlines for equipping its Data Center with huge solar array, the real work of using the Web to slow global climate change is being done in less notorious ways, by a new crop of companies trying to make the Internet 'carbon neutral' and find ways to use Web-based technologies to reduce worldwide energy consumption through 'demand-response' schemes that give energy consumers more direct control over their energy use.
More About: Business , Management , Energy , Opportunities

Make Water (and Money) from Thin Air
2008-02-01 00:00:00
The U.N. estimates that 1.1 billion people currently lack access to safe drinking water which is expected to rise. Although we have normally relied on rain, snow or other forms of precipitation for water, it turns out that Australian physician and inventor Dr. Max Whisson has found an alternative route. He?s chosen to make water from thin air.
More About: Money , Water , Make

The Green YouTube
2008-01-31 00:00:00
Have you often found yourself perusing videos on YouTube and wondering why there aren't more clips involving alternative energy, recycling or green businesses? Search no more, emPivot is the online video website for you. Founded by Chace Warmington and Thom Wallace, it is billed as the first environmental video-sharing site that aims to ?view green from every angle.?
More About: Youtube , Green , Save the World

Make Millions Recycling Landfills
2008-01-30 00:00:00
Much like 'Act Naturally' or 'tax cut,' ?landfill recycling? seems contradictory and an oxymoron, but if you think of it, landfill operations are consistently concerned with maximizing space and extending landfill life?so why not recycle the landfill? This is exactly what Salem County Utilities Authority (SCUA), New Jersey, did after being faced with a legal issue and dwindling landfill space.
More About: Recycling , Glass , Make , Millions

Swap Stuff and Help Save the Planet
2008-01-30 00:00:00
A very simple concept: Recycle the things you no longer need to get the stuff you want. All for free (no sign up fees, no transaction fees, no monthly fees, etc.). Also give members the option to make a donation that gets distributed among charities and non-profits. They can also create profiles, socialize and all the activities associated with your typical social network.
More About: Planet , Stuff , Save , Swap , Save the World

4 Ways to Make Money with Animal Wastes
2008-01-26 00:00:00
According to the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), there are about 1.3 billion cattle worldwide (one for every five people), not to mention assorted domestic companions like elephants and llamas. That turns into slightly more than 1 billion sheep and pigs, 800 million goats and 17 billion chickens. Between them, they produce a lot of fecal matter -- about 13 billion tons of it a year, according to various estimates.
More About: Money , Animal , Make Money , Make

The Riches of Green Learning Toys
2008-01-24 00:00:00
As environmental awareness becomes a dominant theme, it?s no surprise that green-tech learning toys are emerging. Does that mean there?s a major entrepreneurial opportunity here? Science kits will always occupy a niche within the toy industry, and those demonstrating alternative fuels and other eco-friendly technologies could stake a place alongside the rockets, microscopes and chemistry sets that are the mainstay of that market.
More About: Toys , Green , The Riches , Learning , Save the World

The Green Internet (We're not talking about Google's Billions)
2008-01-24 00:00:00
The persistent use of broadband Internet connections and the tools they enable could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by some 1 billion tons over the next decade, according to the American Consumer Institute. Widespread adoption of these practices in the US alone would cut energy use by the equivalent of 11% of annual oil imports, the group says.
More About: Green , Talking , Save the World

Grow your own Insulation and Save Money
2008-01-22 00:00:00
Although mushrooms were only useful as culinary garnishes (or in some communities as hallucinogenics as well), two students from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y have found a cool alternate way to use them. They created and patented Greensulate, an organic, fire-retardant board made of water, flour, oyster mushroom spores and perlite, a mineral blend found in potting soil, and are hoping the invention will soon be part of the growing market for eco-friendly products.
More About: Money , Save Money , Save , Grow , Insulation

Get Rich Recycling Chopsticks
2008-01-21 00:00:00
Chopsticks were developed about 5,000 years ago in China. Disposable, wooden chopsticks are used in a large number of restaurants there. In Japan alone, consumption is estimated at 90,000 tons a year, or 200 pairs per person, according to the findings by the government. Statistics show that about 25 million trees are cut in China for making 45 billion pairs of one-off chopsticks every year
More About: Rich , Recycling

Go into the Business of Green CrowdSourcing
2008-01-21 00:00:00
Consumers are concerned with the environment and want to be associated with brands that are too. Los Angeles-based nvohk, aims to create the first community-managed, environmentally conscious, surf-inspired clothing company where members have the opportunity to make critical decisions that not only affect the direction of the brand, but also make a positive impact on the world around them. This is one more example of the customer-made trend, in which they are given a chance to contribute to a product?s design or features, also called 'crowdsourcing'.
More About: Business , Green , Investments

How to set up your own Green Store in Amazon
2008-01-21 00:00:00
Did you ever want to setup a Green Online Store to sell your favorite Organic clothes or How to Recycle Books? Did you know that Amazon allows you to create virtual stores to sell all or any products displayed at their website? aStore is an Amazon Associates product that lets you create a professional online storefront that can be embedded within or linked to from your website without any programming skills and best of all, there are no fees associated with building it for your website.
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How to make a Fortune with Farming Byproducts
2008-01-21 00:00:00
In the agricultural fields of the US heartland, wheat straw and sunflower hulls are plentiful. These annually renewable materials, which can be made into particleboard and specialty panels, actually are byproducts and/or waste materials from local farmers. Also known as 'agrifiber particleboards', they are made from harvests residue fibers.
More About: Fortune , Make , Farming , Armin

Save Big Bucks with Sustainable Housing
2008-01-21 00:00:00
Solara is a green residential community in Poway, CA and the first apartment complex in the US to be fully powered by the Sun. Energy efficiency is achieved through both passive design features, such as orientation on the site, balcony, and shade overhangs, as well as the selection of materials and systems, including the building envelope that has ENERGY STAR Low-E windows and radiant barrier
More About: Housing , Bucks , Save , Save the World , Sustainable

A Sound Way to Make Millions
2008-01-15 00:00:00
Orest Symko, a University of Utah Physics professor and his team developed devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into energy. They plan to test them within a year to produce electricity from waste heat at a military radar facility and at the university?s hot-water-generating plant.
More About: Sound , Make , Millions

 The Indoorscaping Moneymaker Formula
2008-01-12 00:00:00
Green citizens just can?t get enough of verdant architecture. However while we?ve been concentrating on greening exterior surfaces of buildings, innovative companies have taken their grass inside. These 'green walls' adds a welcome ecological element to sterile office environments and improves air quality while taking up less floor space than potted vegetation does.
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Pick up Fido's Waste and Get Rich along the way
2008-01-10 00:00:00
Pet owners were dissatisfied with the choices available for them to clean their pets' waste. We know plenty of good people who did not pick up because of lack of a good product. Taking up the warm squishy mess is gross enough, but when the bag breaks or if you find a hole in the bag while you're picking up, it can really ruin your walk.
More About: Rich , Pick , Waste

Green Toy Story
2008-01-10 00:00:00
Experts predict that 2008 will be the year of the green toy as retailers and toy makers offer more eco-friendly options in natural materials. Board games specially should also score well as families stay home amid a challenging economy. With so many toys on the market manufactured with environmentally unsafe materials, is no wonder that this is happening. Environmentally friendly toys are a very small (albeit growing) segment of the toy market so the potential for growth is explosive.
More About: Story , Green , Save the World , Toy Story

Unique Way to Save Money with Heat from the Street
2008-01-09 00:00:00
Cities generate and trap tremendous amounts of heat and are on average 10 degrees warmer than surrounding areas. Urbanization has an alarming effect on the climate, and wreak havoc with precipitation patterns. This so called 'urban heat island' phenomenon traps heat in thermal masses like black roads which absorb, store and then re-emit this heat to the air at night.
More About: Money , Save Money , Street , Heat , Unique

Who Wants to be a Green Vending Millionaire?
2008-01-07 00:00:00
The $1.2 billion US vending machine industry will grow about 6 percent through 2008. Gains will be driven by the rising number of vending locations, the proliferation of innovations such as cashless machines, and the retrofitting of bill acceptors in existing machines. Placements in offices, retail establishments and health facilities will grow the fastest.
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Beauty from Waste
2008-01-06 00:00:00
Would you like a tub sofa or a shopping cart chair? Reestore takes everyday waste objects and cheerfully turn them into charming and functional pieces of furniture and accessories. Founded by UK product designer Max McMurdo, the company produces a line of green products based on the recycling of old home products.
More About: Beauty , Waste

2007 Top 10 Green Business Ideas
2008-01-04 00:00:00
This year witnessed big companies moving in the right direction, creative minds with breakthrough, disruptive changes and stealth companies with cool technologies. We've seen them all, from eco websites to ethical fashion, and our readers have voted for their top 10 Cool Green Business ideas. Here they are in descending order:
More About: Ideas , Business Ideas , Save the World