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Microfinance @ Kiva.org, Become a Banker to the Poor
Fofoa Ekuata is a plantation owner in Samoa. She needs US$ 875/- to buy a box of Cramoxon, a pest management system. She is asking for help via Kiva.org, a website where anyone can be a banker to the poor.
It's not charity, it's investment. Entrepreneurs vetted by on-ground NGOs are presented on Kiva. Lender give small loans - as small as US$ 25. A pool of lenders fulfills the entire need of the entrepreneur. Progress is monitored. Once profitable, the borrowers start paying back. Lenders can …
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If "Green Business" (by any other name) means business embracing the concepts of environmentalism, then Enviropreneurship (ENVP) means environmentalists learning the concepts of business. ENVP is about "bringing market principles to resolve environmental problems." It encourages market-based solutio…
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Enviropreneurship - When Environmentalism Met Business
A cane toad the size of a small dog has been captured in Australia. Cane Toads are considered an environmental hazard in Australia since been introduced in 1930's, and thought responsible for killing countless numbers of animals. The massive toad was found on a pond raid in Darwin, and is the size …
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Environmentally Unfriendly Animals - Toads Used as Fertilizer
To be built in Austrailia, SolarMission Technologies "are developing the world's first commerical Solar Tower (aka Solar Chimney)." The Solar Chimney will be able to generate 200MW of electricity equaling enough power to roughly 200,000 households. The construction of this very tall tower (2 1/2 t…
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Solar Energy - The Solar Chimney (GALLERY)
In efforts to be environnmentally friendly, Boeing is starting ground and flight testing on a newly completed research project called the "Fuel Cell Demonstrator." This new airplane "uses a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell/lithium-ion battery hybrid system to power an electric motor, which …
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Eco-Friendly Air Travel - Boeing's Fuel Cell Airplane
Billions of plastic bags and waste are produced every year for a very short term of usage, but with quite a long life, and when they degrade they result in very toxic products. In some countries plastic bags are not allowed, but as this doesn't happen in most countries, for now let's hope this new p…
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Biodegradable Plastic - New Plastic Dissolves in Sea Water
Scientists have been getting strange photos of Saturn from the Cassini Spacecraft. The photos show a hexagon in the atmosphere at Saturn's North Pole, which hasn't changed much since Voyager I spotted it 26 years ago, and an eye, resembling a hurricane, at its south pole.
Atmospheric experts at NA…
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Outer Space Oddities - Bizzare Eye Upstages Rings on Saturn (VIDEO)
A new gym in Hong Kong might be on to something- as patrons at a gym work out, their energy is "transformed into electricity and stored in a battery that powers some of the gym's lights." As one patron at the gym put it "It's very good motivation,' Ms. Wong said, pointing at the fluorescent bulb ab…
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Human Powered Energy - Get Your Butt To The Gym and Generate Some Electricity (VIDEO)
Eco friendly coffins are a great idea to solve the problem of limited burial space, especially in areas like Hong Kong. "As Carrie Yau, Hong Kong’s Permanent Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food stated, “The eco-coffin coincides with the Asian philosophy of integration between man and nature. We…
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Eco Coffins - 100% Environmentally Friendly
Each year, one of Britain's most famed natural phenomena occurs on the river Severn. The Severn Bore it is a large tidal wave that works its way up the Severn Estuary,over a distance of 25 miles between Awre and Gloucester.
Its caused by a rise in tide in a funnel-shaped river. In brief, as the ti…
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Surfing On The Farm - The Severn Bore
Looking to get off your local power grid? Here is a good way with the first of its kind "residential scale, wind turbine". From Quietrevolution, this uniquely shaped "wind-powered sculpture" captures air "currents near buildings and other structures, with carbon-fiber blades shaped to grab gusty c…
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Wind Power For The People - $48k for Power Independence
Garbage vocalist Shirley Manson appears on the hard-hitting adverts as the new face of the latest campaign by PETA UK (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Known for her reputation as a toughy feminist which is reflected on the songs they wrote, was very grateful on joining the campaign a…
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Anti-Fur Activists - The Rest Of Your Fur Coat Campaign
Skyscrapers are major constructions and they have a huge energy demand. In Bahrain twin skyscraper complex is being build, called the Bahrain World Trade Center. They have succesfully integraded three massive wind turbines blades measuring 29 meters in diameter each, on bridges between the twin towe…
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Bahrain World Trade Center - Integrated Wind Turbines
Study showed that there can be a better alternative to lithium ion batteries which are used today in most of the portable electronic devices like Ipod and cellphones. Researcher from Saint Louis University in Missouri developed and introduced a battery called fuel cell that can be charged using any …
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Sugar-Powered Battery Could Run your Ipod
The truth to the saying 'one man's garbage is another man's treasure' was underlined with a flourish when German artists created an exhibit of 1000 statues fashioned entirely of refuse.
The statues were installed in Rome and will be on display for nearly two weeks.
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