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Profits Hidden Under the Fallen Leaves
2008-06-08 00:00:00
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 excessive amount of non-biodegradable trash that terrorizes our environment and food chains.
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The Secret of Profitable Electronics Recycling
2008-06-06 00:00:00
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 significantly increasing environmental threat
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How to Make a Load of Money with the Shit Box
2008-06-06 00:00:00
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.
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Get Rich Harvesting Fuel from CO2 Emissions
2008-05-29 00:00:00
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.
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Cashing In on Recycled Jeans
2008-05-26 00:00:00
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.
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Recycle Your Gold for a Profit
2008-05-22 00:00:00
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 as coins, 15 percent in industrial use, and the other 1 percent in dental. So anything we can do to reduce this pollution is a welcomed activity.
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Find Riches by Reusing your Sails
2008-05-22 00:00:00
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.
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Does Size Really Matter?
2008-05-21 00:00:00
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 approximately 5-20% of electricity production in some European countries.
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Green Really Mattress
2008-05-16 00:00:00
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 products.
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Styrophobia.com Success Story
2008-05-15 00:00:00
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 into small pieces, often mistaken for food by marine animals, birds and fish.
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The Priceless Gift of Tree-Nation
2008-05-14 00:00:00
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.
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The Pee-Cycling Business
2008-05-10 00:00:00
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.
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The Business of Helping Green Prospectors
2008-05-09 00:00:00
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.
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How to Profit from Algae: Power Plants of the Future
2008-05-07 00:00:00
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.
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Brew your Own BioFuel for $1 a Gallon
2008-05-02 00:00:00
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.
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How to Make Money with Discarded Flip-Flops
2008-04-30 00:00:00
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.
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Make Big Bucks with Coffee Grounds
2008-04-30 00:00:00
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.
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Pool Cleaning
2008-04-26 00:00:00
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.
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Recycle CO2 into DVDs and Get Rich
2008-04-24 00:00:00
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.
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Green Coke
2008-04-24 00:00:00
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.
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 Earn Millions Turning Pond Scum into Fuel
2008-04-20 00:00:00
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.
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The Secret Formula of Pee-Powered Batteries
2008-04-17 00:00:00
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.
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Grow Your Own Diesel
2008-04-16 00:00:00
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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The New Green Great Pyramid
2008-04-13 00:00:00
The Egyptian pyramids were built for eternity but only for one single person: the great Pharaoh. A green project called The Great Pyramid 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.
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Recycle your Shellfish for Money
2008-04-11 00:00:00
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.
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Entrepreneur Strikes Gold with Everest's Trash
2008-04-11 00:00:00
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.
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A Business Sensation: Rescue by Design
2008-04-03 00:00:00
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.
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Make Millions, Recycle your Pee
2008-04-02 00:00:00
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.
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More Bang for Your Walk
2008-03-29 00:00:00
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.
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Sustainable Marketing: Plant this Letter
2008-03-28 00:00:00
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.
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