An innovative initiative is taking place in the Philippines to bring sustainable lighting to homes in impoverished communities. Empty plastic bottles are installed in the roof, filled with water and bleach they refract sunlight. These “solar light bulbs” provide light equivalent to a 55watt light bulb.
See how they’re made here. From Visual News
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Conscious Box is a new concept in the green marketplace. Consumers subscribe and each month receive a box of eco-friendly and natural products. The products have all been carefully screened and reviewed by the staff at Conscious Box before being included. Companies cannot buy their way into having their products included in the box.
Why is this an interesting idea? Well I think most consumers who are looking for green or more eco-friendly products will appreciate being able to try products before committing to buy a larger size version.
With green products there is constant change in the marketplace with new products popping up and other ones failing. The Conscious Box allows a consumer to try a number of products in small quantities before buying them at the store.
Lets face it eco-friendly products are expensive and some of them don’t work out as we had hoped. Also many green consumers are highly concerned about waste if a product doesn’t work out or isn’t something they like. Conscious Box allows the consumer to try products.
Another interesting feature of the Conscious Box is its packaging. The makers of Conscious Box placed a high level of importance on making the box and the shipping container as green as possible. They worked with Salazar Packaging in Chicago to develop the ideal packaging solution for their product.Dennis Salazar, president of Salazar Packaging and a SISG contributor said the box and shipper are made from 100% recycled corrugated content produced by wind power. He told SISG the Conscious Box team was adamant about using the greenest possible packaging.
Read more about the packaging for Conscious Box at Inside Sustainable Packaging
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I had pizza the other day from Federal Hill Pizza in Warren,RI and the pizza came in a GreenBox. I wasn’t familiar with the GreenBox but I have to say after experiecing it firsthand its a useful and innovative product.
The GreenBox looks like a normal pizza box however the top of the box is perforated on the inside and splits into four sections that serve as plates. The remaining bottom part of the box also folds up into a smaller profile box for storing leftovers.
GreenBox is made from recycled corrugated cardboard and is made by Evovention based in New York.
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TEDtalk: Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic
Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can, and does, recycle any kind of plastic.
Why you should listen to him
Throwing water bottles into the recycling bin doesn’t begin to address the massive quantity of postconsumer plastic that ends up in landfills and the ocean. Because it’s so difficult to separate the various kinds of plastics – up to 20 kinds per product – that make up our computers, cell phones, cars and home appliances, only a small fraction of plastics from complex waste streams are recycled, while the rest is tossed. In 1992, Mike Biddle, a plastics engineer, set out to find a solution. He set up a lab in his garage in Pittsburg, California, and began experimenting with complex-plastics recycling, borrowing ideas from such industries as mining and grain processing.
Since then, Biddle has developed a patented 30-step plastics recycling system that includes magnetically extracting metals, shredding the plastics, sorting them by polymer type and producing graded pellets to be reused in industry – a process that takes less than a tenth of the energy required to make virgin plastic from crude oil. Today, the company he cofounded, MBA Polymers, has plants in China and Austria, and plans to build more in Europe, where electronics-waste regulation (which doesn’t yet have an equivalent in the US) already ensures a stream of materials to exploit – a process Biddle calls “above-ground mining.”He says: “I consider myself an environmentalist. I hate to see plastics wasted. I hate to see any natural resource – even human time – wasted.”
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Loft 24-7 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
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I have plans to own a restaurant/cafe with a smoothie/salad bar.
I want to pass a business on to my future children and hopefully use it to gather children of the community and teach them about health, preventative care, and conserving the earths resources.
I would also love to have a parkour gym next door for the little kiddies, because no child should be left home alone or on the streets; there's too much drug use and peer pressure these days.
I'm going to plan my ass off to make this happen.
FIGHTING!
ALL FOODS
breakfast
lunch
appetizers
dinner
desserts
RESTAURANT INTERIOR DESIGN
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