Environmentally-friendly products have been big business for a couple of decades. They’re almost as old as the eco-movement itself as science discovers just how badly we’ve been treating our planet. Are products truly “green” or are they just bringing in more green to the bottom line of companies taking advantage of the trends?
The focus over the last two decades on companies doing their part to be “green” or eco-friendly has made many businesses change their ways in order to appease their customers. Is it real? Are they truly doing their part to make the world better for the future or are they slapping a recycling sticker on their products and calling it a day?
After 50 days of mayhem used to entertain some of loom over others, LulzSec has officially called it quits.
In their most recent (and supposedly last) post, the hacker group of 6 announced that they will no longer be posting passwords, hacking into government agencies, or waging war against corporations across the globe. Instead, they will return to being “real people”, whatever that means.
“Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.”
Are you happy or sad by this?
The northern Indian village once known as Shiv Nagar has replaced the first part of their name (which came from the Hindu god Shiva) to the name of the company that gave them what they really needed: water.
SnapDeal, the Indian variation of Groupon, spent $5000 to install 15 hand pumps that allowed villagers to get water locally rather than walk 2 miles to the nearest clean water. 28-year-old CEO Kunal Bahl said this is the first of many works of philanthropy that he has planned.
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Recycled plastic bottles have become many things, like other plastic bottles, bags made from recycled post-consumer plastic, and a variety of other products. The town of San Pablo in the Philippines had other ideas for recycling the bottles and have even built a new school using them.
Residents of the city helped gather thousands of plastic bottles which was later bonded together using a natural building material to form a school.
Continue reading Plastic Bottles Used To Build School In The Philippines
I know what you’re thinking, the Sun is hot and the AC is not. I know, I know, but China-based Shandong Vicot Air Conditioning Co. has build the first ever solar-powered air conditioning unit. The unit was displayed at the 2010 World Solar-Powered Air Conditioning Development Forum in Dezhou, China.
The AC unit can reach an 85% thermal cooling conversion efficiency and is 27 times more efficient at converting solar insulation to cool air than the average solar-powered water heater.
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Scottish researchers have developed what they call a “super” biofuel using by-products of whiskey production. Employing a method similar to a 100-year-old process that produces butanol and acetone through the fermentation of sugar, scientists at Edinburgh Napier University developed a process to convert the waste from the whiskey-making process — pot ale, which is the liquid from copper stills, and the spent grains known as draff — into a fuel that can be used in automobiles and is 30 percent more efficient than ethanol.
Given the enormity of Scotland’s £4 billion ($6 billion) whiskey industry, which produces 1,600 million liters of pot ale and 187,000 tons of draff annually, scientists say there is the potential for whiskey biofuel to emerge as a significant source of fuel for cars and even airplanes. “This is a more environmentally sustainable option and potentially offers new revenue on the back of one Scotland’s biggest industries,” said Martin Tangney, director of the university’s Biofuel Research Centre.
A clever British design student, Tom Broadbent, has come up with a way to harness the energy in wastewater and transform it into electricity. His device, dubbed HyDro Power, works by taking the waste water from toilets, showers, and sinks, and passes it through four turbine blades as it flows through the pipes which powers a generator.
The device is currently designed for high-rise buildings where it could generate the most energy and lead to cost savings as much as $1,415 per year for the average building. That may not sound like a lot, but you’ve got to take into account, the value of the environmental impact that the device is offsetting. If this device were to be installed during the construction of new buildings or retrofitted into existing ones, we could be looking at savings, both financially and environmentally, on a tremendous scale.
Of course, the energy converted and collected by the HyDro Power could be put back into the building or sold back to the national electrical grid. Tom Broadbent comments on his idea saying:
Continue reading HyDro Power Generates Electricity With Every Flush
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