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The 'Do it yourself' trend has inspired businesses and consumers from all parts of the world, during the last decade.
From solar generators to fashionable accessories and even electric cars, everything could be manufactured easier, at home, with just a little bit of knowledge and the right tools.
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13 January 2012
06:43 GMT |
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Recycling strategies often go hand in hand with fashion sense and creativity. One of the best examples in this case is the new collection of flooring materials, launched by TING London, an eco-conscious company from the UK.
TING London wants to give new meanings to old leather belts by turning them into one-of-a-kin... |
10 January 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Nowadays, man-made pollution is considered one of the greatest threats for most of the pristine environments.
A beach from California, known by locals as the place where piles of trash used to be gathered, has managed to undergo an extreme 'makeover' while simply relying on clean, green wave power, Inha... |
7 January 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Human manufacturers could take longer breaks in the near future, since their daily tasks could be successfully accomplished by hard-working mycelium, processing agricultural byproducts to offer a better alternative to conventional packaging products. The new eco-friendly items could be exploited on a much larger sc... |
6 January 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Avatar has amazed a large segment of the public with its fabulous 3D effects and has even managed to win three Oscars; however, representatives from Jaguar have been following the same path for years to come up with satisfactory results. Their goal was to minimize the amount of waste and save some cash at the same... |
29 December 2011
08:12 GMT |
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This year, recycling operations go hand in hand with charity. This green strategy is adopted both by Sprint and Verizon, two companies determined to help the less fortunate ones while diverting millions of old cell phones from landfills.
Sprint and Verizon have developed two trade-in programs to support their goals... |
20 December 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Surprisingly, the green trend aiming to decrease the carbon footprint is visible even in the film industry. Warner Bros makes no exception, since it counts as one of the most eco-conscious companies.
It spared no efforts to come up with effective measures of lowering CO2 emissions, while recycling waste and keeping ... |
16 December 2011
08:57 GMT |
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The Environment Agency is indicating that illegal toxic waste dumps are a serious threat for the health of British residents. It seems that 600 hazardous sites are located only in the UK. The most alarming fact is that half of them are located 150 feet far from schools and homes, Express.co.uk informs. Authorities... |
12 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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If you think that an ancient 26'' wooden TV set even your grandparents would be ashamed of can't be exploited further, you are definitely wrong and have to check out Michael Khor's masterpiece.
He has transformed an old CRT TV into an amazing new home for his fish. The recycled fish tank is anyt... |
8 December 2011
06:53 GMT |
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There are only a few things that the Microbial Home designer by Phillips can't accomplish, in terms of energy-efficiency and resource preservation. The most intriguing concept displayed by the company is the innovative bacteria-based lightning system.
Powering our entire household without having to pay for a si... |
6 December 2011
09:04 GMT |
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Landfillart is an international project aiming to highlight the talent and efforts of 1,041 gifted artists that have what it takes to turn rusted metal waste represented by lo-longer-needed hubcaps into fine works of art. All the material gathered, recycled and marvelously reused comes from old automobiles manufactur... |
2 December 2011
11:36 GMT |
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Phillips is an eco-conscious company that will spare no efforts in turning bees into common pets. Its innovative eco-friendly project entitled the Microbial Home continues to surprise us, as it plans to make us more familiar with the amazing Urban Beehive concept. The futuristic gadget allows us to watch the hard-w... |
29 November 2011
05:38 GMT |
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is working in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to support an ingenious recycling competition entitled “New Uses for Recycled Glass.” Both organizations are encouraging participants to come up with innovative methods of reusing or recycling ... |
29 November 2011
02:37 GMT |
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DOC2DOCK is an environmentally friendly non-profit organization keen on saving thousands of lives in developing countries, while reducing the amount of waste created by millions of hospitals from wealthy nations. Its officials are trying to divert unused medical supplies from landfills, collecting and redistributin... |
25 November 2011
02:35 GMT |
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The Love Food Hate Waste organization is struggling to change the rules of our wasteful society, by launching an innovative app, available for iPhone and Android that will teach us how to preserve our resources while saving up to £50 ($78.15/€57.95) every month. Changes in our behavior are encouraged and... |
22 November 2011
02:25 GMT |
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A company from New Zealand has successfully tested its new technology and produced 2,3 Butanediol, a compound out of which fuels and plastics can be made.The clean tech company LanzaTech, had already announced last year that it had been developing a microbe that digests carbon monoxide in waste gas from steel mills, ... |
28 August 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Nanotechnology was necessary in order for this cement to exist. The CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas working with the Spanish company Tecnalia, developed two patents that allowed the creation of this environmental-friendly cement. Traditional cement is obtained by limestone's calcina... |
16 July 2010
09:03 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study on the eating habits that citizens in the United States exhibit, nearly 40 percent of the food supply in the country goes to the trash can after purchase, rather than being consumed. This waste only seem to be getting worse as the years go by, experts say and argue that measures sh... |
26 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Plastic wastes, which come from an abundance of sources, including wrapping, bottles and other commodities, take more than one hundred years to disintegrate when left into the environment, which makes them one of the most harmful substances on the planet. Even so, it would seem that people are more than willing to bu... |
3 March 2009
03:09 GMT |
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What would you say if you walked on the street and the air smelled like coffee instead of burned gas? Although the very few people who can't stand the smell of coffee (assuming there are any) may be disappointed, for those who aim at having waste turned into fuel, good news is here: coffee and biofuels just beca... |
16 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Layers of very thick vegetation can be a very effective means of preventing landfills from releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane into the atmosphere, a new test study at the Rockhampton's Lakes Creek Landfill in Australia recently showed. Using methane capture towers can be prohibitively ex... |
28 November 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Pseudoscience or finally the real thing? Well, that still remains to be seen, but if it indeed works then mankind will be able to generate large amounts of energy at room temperature without worrying about waste or fuel. In the last decades, researchers have been frantically trying to demonstrate that cold fusion is ... |
27 May 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Nuclear fission reactors produce high amounts of relatively clean electric energy by burning nuclear fuels, such as uranium. Higher-efficiency nuclear fuel is required for the next generation of nuclear reactors, which will burn longer and stronger to produce even higher amounts of energy. However, researchers say th... |
10 April 2008
05:42 GMT |
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It's not the first time scientists hear about Shewanella bacterium and something tells me it's not gonna be the last time neither. We know certain types of bacteria are capable of producing electric energy just through feeding, however this is the first time when University of Minnesota researchers reveal t... |
5 March 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Great power comes with great responsibility, a wise man once said. Indeed it does, and nuclear waste is only one of the problems that come along with this great power. Nuclear energy has great potential for electrical energy generation, as it uses relatively small amounts of fuel and converts it into a massive amount... |
4 March 2008
04:58 GMT |
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But why? Well, there are three big reasons for that. The ethanol is a highly corrosive substance, it has lower energetic value than butanol and, unlike the latter, ethanol also produces a great deal of carbon dioxide gas when burning. Both butanol and ethanol are being routinely used as gas additives, in order to boo... |
28 January 2008
06:35 GMT |
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1.What makes too many people on this planet for too few resources? The demographic boom, increased carbon dioxide emissions, the thinning ozone layer, deforestation and soil erosion. 2.The global warming will raise in 100 years Earth's temperature by 1.4-5.8o C, and this is already increasing the sea level. The ... |
5 December 2007
10:49 GMT |
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Here's a new one! While every single giant fish in the electronic industry is doing its best to fight against the monster pollution we're living in nowadays, the Americans are actually doing their best to do even more damage as usual, by shipping huge amounts of electronic waste overseas. They're clean... |
19 November 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Waste management began as a problem for the computer industry a few years ago and since then, big names representing powerful and well established companies decided to start their own electronic waste gathering programs in order to diminish the industry's environmental footprint.As this trend continues and grows... |
21 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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What in the world could be more comfortable that the flushing toilet? Still, some researchers fear that this will trigger an environmental disaster in the western world. More ecological toilets, like the "squat toilet" in which one squats over a hole dug in the ground, are common in parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, ... |
1 August 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Doing something about global warming and the rapid depletion of the world's non-renewable energy resources has recently become an important topic on some companies' agendas. The search for viable biofuels is well on its way and more and more car manufacturers are presenting concepts and prototypes of "gree... |
27 June 2007
11:13 GMT |
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One of Russia's biggest radioactive waste storage facilities, located in the Kola Peninsula, in the Northwest, is, according to environmentalists, a ticking bomb, ready to explode in a short time if no countermeasures are taken.The blast would be worse than the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986, a... |
5 June 2007
03:42 GMT |
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The search for viable biofuels is well on its way, and more and more car manufacturers are presenting concepts and prototypes of "green cars," that use alternative fuel sources.Making cellulosic ethanol seems to be a good a idea. Making cars run on this fuel instead of the polluting fossilized fuel is an even better... |
7 May 2007
10:39 GMT |
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