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Flatpack Furniture for Cats

March 19, 2010

Flatpack furniture is made from entirely 100% recycled cardboard. This furniture is also called ready-to-assemble furniture or knock down furniture and requires multiple pieces to be assembled to create the product. The latest eco friendly Flatpacks creating a stir are the Loyal Luxe Cat Chalet and the Caboodle.
The first one has interchangeable ornamental decorations, interior [...]

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iGo Eco Charger

March 19, 2010

iGo is an Arizona based company well known for innovative and efficient power management devices. Their Green Technology products include a new portable eco friendly charger for those on the go. This charger is compatible with almost all mobiles and gaming devices and allows the device to be charged with or without an outlet. The [...]

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Green Touch

March 19, 2010

A consortium comprising members from AT&T, China Mobile, Samsung and MIT’s research Lab for Electronics led by the research team of Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, are in the process of developing a process that will involve making the internet 1000 greener by 2015. Green Touch is the name of this initiative. Bell Labs is working on [...]

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Carbon capture by crystals

March 19, 2010

Biochemistry professor Omar Yaghi and UCLA graduate Hexian Deng have developed synthetic crystals that have the capacity to trap carbon. These designer crystals could be used as affordable, scalable carbon dioxide trapping options from vehicle exhaust pipes or factories.  The crystals code information similar to DNA in a simple form based on the sequence of [...]

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Wipro’s toxic free computer.

March 19, 2010

Wipro is the 2nd largest Indian IT company and the 3rd in the world to have created a toxic free desktop computer, Apple and HP being the only other two. The eco friendly Wipro Greenware desktops are completely free of brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride, chemicals that are known to be carcinogenic. The removal [...]

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Bye Bye Batteries

March 18, 2010

If all goes well with the research at the Imperial College London, batteries could be a thing of the past. A 4.5 million dollar project is underway to create a lightweight material that can store electricity. The patented light weight material is carbon fibre based polymer resin. The material in this project will not require [...]

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Lightweight wheels to better fuel efficiency

March 18, 2010

Walmart conducts a sustainability focused competition titled Better Living Business Plan Challenge and one of the teams comprising students from Columbia University presented a reinvention of the wheel.
They propose a business plan to create composite, lightweight, energy efficient wheels for large vehicles like trucks and buses. Carbon fibres are being used as the composite materials [...]

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British Airways fuel from municipal waste

March 18, 2010

British Airways is planning on obtaining 10% of jet fuel through waste to energy processes. They announced their plans to source 16 million gallons of green jet fuel per year from the Solena plant that is expected to run online from 2014. The initial volume of fuel supplied will be 2% of BA’s total fuel [...]

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Bloom Box Micro Power

March 18, 2010

Bloom Energy recently unveiled its Bloom Box, a device that promises to alter our power generation capabilities at affordable rates. The unveiling at Ebay’s headquaters by founder K.R. Sridhar was witnessed by several political and industry heavyweights like venture capitalist John Doerr, former Secretary of State and Bloom Energy board member Colin Powell as well [...]

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Solar Powered Electric Car

March 18, 2010

Introduced at the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York by industrial designer Yves Behar, the solar electric car has created a buzz. Behar and his studio Fuse Project have been experimenting with transportation designs like the Mission One electric Motorcycle, but this car is set to be affordable and come with a standard electric base [...]

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