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Sustainable after Death
2008-01-04 00:00:00 Dying in the United States is an $11 billion industry, with average funeral costs running about $7,000. Last year, with the population closer to 290 million, there were 2.4 million deaths. Aging boomers are expected to start swelling those ranks and by 2040, there will by an estimated 4 million deaths a year, double the number today. More About: Death , Sustainable
Biodegradable Plastics at Last!
2008-01-04 00:00:00 Every year US landfills receive tens of millions of tons of plastic, which can take hundreds of years to break down. But all that might change now that an Ohio company has developed biodegradable plastic that begins to degrade only when placed in landfills. Thanks to a new additive, water bottles, garbage bags and other plastic products have become appetizing meals for the microorganisms that inhabit landfills. More About: Biodegradable , Plastics
Save Money Building your House from Dirt
2007-12-29 00:00:00 Over one half of this planet's population (about 3 billion people in all continents) lives or work on buildings constructed of earth, such as facilities constructed of mud brick (adobe), rammed earth (pisé), compressed earth block or other methods of earthen nature. Throughout history people has used raw earth to build affordable, durable housing. Now the green building movement is embracing this time-tested material, and rammed earth is one of the most exciting of all sustainable building technologies. More About: House , Building , Money , Save Money , Dirt
Get Rich with Eco-Starter kits
2007-12-29 00:00:00 87 percent of Americans are 'seriously concerned' about the environment, yet only 30 percent of the population is actively 'green'. Most of us realize there are changes we should make in our lives to become more environmentally friendly, but overcoming inertia and actually doing it can be another matter. Now a few different companies offer starter kits to help make those changes happen. More About: Rich , Kits , Save the World , Starter
The Recycled Office Supplies Millionaire
2007-12-29 00:00:00 In 1993 Tom Kemper founded Dolphin Blue, a company that sells recycled office supplies online. Today, it is a successful and growing example of true environmental stewardship. It offers recycled office supplies such as paper, laser cartridges, inkjet cartridges, tree free paper, organizers, pocket folders, color laser copy paper, stationery, envelope, letterhead and photo paper plus specialty fiber papers and other environmentally responsible products. More About: Office , Millionaire , Supplies , Save the World
Eat your food with ... a Potatoe?
2007-12-21 00:00:00 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. More About: Food
Recycle Airports for a Living
2007-12-21 00:00:00 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'. More About: Living , Airports , Glass
Profit from the Greenhouse Effect
2007-12-19 00:00:00 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. More About: Profit , Greenhouse , Effect , Greenhouse Effect
Save money with the Ecostrip
2007-12-19 00:00:00 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. More About: Money , Save Money , Save
Nanobatteries: A green solution to energy storage
2007-12-18 00:00:00 People are using more and more household batteries. The average person owns about two button batteries, ten normal (A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, etc.) batteries, and throws out about eight household batteries per year. About three billion batteries are sold annually in the U.S. averaging about 32 per family or ten per person. In the past 150 years the battery has had only an eightfold improvement in performance while silicon-based electronics improve that much every six years. Today?s conventional batteries lose their power even when the device is not in use. More About: Electronics , Energy , Storage , Green , Solution
Recycline.com Success Story
2007-12-16 00:00:00 It all started with a toothbrush. Back when it still wasn?t easy being green, Eric Hudson decided to break into the natural product arena by creating an innovative item unlike any other in the marketplace: a toothbrush made from recycled materials. This was a bold decision in 1996, given that recycled-material offerings were scarce in the marketplace. More About: Story , Success , Success Story , Glass
The Green Seal of Approval
2007-12-16 00:00:00 Green Seal is an American non-profit environmental labeling organization that awards a 'Green Seal of Approval' to products found to cause significantly less environmental harm than other similar products. The certification mark, a blue globe with a green check, identifies those products which are preferable, empowering consumers to choose products based on their ecological impacts. More About: Green , Save the World
The Steam-o-Lene Millionaire-to-be
2007-12-12 00:00:00 A typical car engine wastes three quarters of its energy as heat. Bruce Crower, a southern California auto-racing parts shop owner and self taught Engineer thinks he can change that. After spending a modest $1,000 over one and a half years to reinvent our internal combustion motor, he has come out with a prototype: A single-cylinder diesel eight-horsepower that uses that heat to make steam and recapture some of the lost energy. More About: Millionaire , Steam , Lene
Clothes Swapping as a Green Venture
2007-12-12 00:00:00 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. More About: Venture , Clothes , Green , Cloth
Rubbish Houses as Commercial Opportunities
2007-12-12 00:00:00 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. More About: Commercial , Houses , Opportunities , Glass , Rubbish
Windbelt. An innovative energy generator
2007-12-08 00:00:00 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. More About: Energy , Generator , Innovative
Make Millions with Biodegradable Tableware
2007-12-07 00:00:00 Worldwide consumption of disposable and single-use food/drink containers is estimated in more than 430,000,000,000 units per year, or about 140,000 each second. The majority of these units are made of EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) and are non-biodegradable and non-recyclable, requiring more than 200 years to begin even partial degradation. More About: Make , Tableware , Biodegradable , Millions , Plastics
Green Video Sharing Website
2007-12-06 00:00:00 Now that the YouTube era of Internet content is well under way, with video playing an ever-increasing role in everything from social networking to political elections, it's time to usher in the next stage. Magnify has launched a service that helps web publishers bring subject-specific video channels to their own websites. More About: Video , Website , Green , Sharing , Save the World
Go bananas over enviro-friendly paper.
2007-12-05 00:00:00 The use of trees to produce paper has increased greatly over the last hundred years. This has placed great demands on the world?s available forest resources and it is now widely recognized that alternatives must be found. Recycling has been embraced in many countries as one way to reduce the amount of deforestation by the re-use of paper. More About: Paper , Friendly , Envi
Garbage In...Compost Out
2007-12-05 00:00:00 A home composting appliance that recycles food and paper waste into rich, organic compost fertilizer without any smell or mess. This computer-controlled machine is fully automatic and can be used right where waste is generated. NatureMill, which was developed by Russ Cohn, from San Francisco CA, is small enough to sit in the corner of a kitchen, utility room, garage or shed. More About: Garbage
Get Rich Recycling Shipping Containers
2007-12-01 00:00:00 Recycling old shipping containers is both a green and affordable solution to housing crisis. The dry freight container, a standard used for transport over water, was introduced in 1956. The unit is used extensively for long distance hauling of goods over water. Trains and trucks can also easily transport merchandise using these metal boxes. More About: Rich , Recycling , Shipping , Glass
Earn Millions with CowPots
2007-11-29 00:00:00 Dairy farmers constantly struggle with the challenge of managing the troublesome odors and high nitrate content in cow manure. A pair of creative brothers from Connecticut has developed an innovative and environmentally sound solution to this problem, CowPots. Ben and Mathew Freund created a digestion and dehydration process to process the wastes. The remaining manure fibers are then formed into a variety of shapes and sizes to create the containers, which can be planted in the ground to fertilize plants. More About: Earn , Millions
BioBags as a Commercial Venture
2007-11-29 00:00:00 Every year, around 500,000,000,000 plastic bags are used worldwide, or over one million bags every minute and they're damaging our environment. Put it another way, every man, woman and child on our planet uses 83 plastic bags every year. That's one bag per person every four and half days. Of those 500 billion bags, 100 billion are consumed in the US alone. More About: Venture , Commercial , Plastics
The C&D Recycling Business
2007-11-28 00:00:00 Construction and demolition (C&D) materials account for almost 22 percent of the waste stream. Many of these materials can be reused or recycled, thus prolonging our supply of natural resources and potentially saving money in the process. Common C&D materials include lumber, drywall, metals, masonry (brick, concrete, etc.), carpet, plastic, pipe, rocks, dirt, paper, cardboard, or green waste related to land development. Of these, metals are the most commonly recycled material while lumber makes up the majority of debris that still goes to a landfill. More About: Business , Recycling , Glass , Sine
The Natural Step
2007-11-27 00:00:00 Since 1988, The Natural Step , an international non-profit, research, education and advisory organization that uses a science-based framework has helped organizations, individuals and communities move toward sustainability. Founded in Sweden in 1989 by scientist, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, it works to accelerate global sustainability by guiding companies, communities and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path. More About: Save the World , The Natural
The Thriving Business of Biodegradable Cremation Urns
2007-11-23 00:00:00 Some people prefer cremation for personal reasons, maybe because they are not attracted to traditional burial or the thought of a long, slow decomposition process is unappealing to them. They also prefer cremation because it disposes of the body immediately. The cost factor tends to make cremation attractive as well, because generally speaking, it is less expensive than traditional burial services. More About: Business , Biodegradable , Sine
Eco Tile Success Story
2007-11-23 00:00:00 These textile walls are constructed with individual foam fabric tiles which connect together using an ingenious folding system. This scheme allows for a great deal of flexibility with an infinite degree of permutations. Moreover, the simple assembly allows the walls to be easily reconfigured, creating a most spectacular architecture with color and simplicity, using textiles based on innovative and experimental design. More About: Story , Success , Success Story
Make Money Greening Vending Machines
2007-11-22 00:00:00 There are about 4 million vending machines in the US spitting out everything from beverages to snacks to candy at all hours of the day and night. Of course, these things operate on demand. Most of the time, they sit around waiting for someone to have a craving and they burn a whole of energy in the meantime. More About: Money , Make Money , Machines , Make , Vending
Waterless Washing Machines as a Business concept
2007-11-21 00:00:00 A waterless washing machine called Airwash, removes stains from garments in a few minutes. Developed at the National University of Singapore, the appliance uses negative ions, compressed air and deodorants to clean clothes. More About: Business , Machines , Concept , Washing , Sine
Sustainable Products as Business Gifts
More articles from this author:2007-11-21 00:00:00 Promotional items or promotional products refers to merchandise that is used in marketing and communication programs. The items are usually imprinted or decorated with a company's name, logo or message. They are a popular marketing tool used by virtually every business to help communicate advertising messages, create goodwill and motivate recipients. More About: Business , Products , Gifts , Sustainable , Sine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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