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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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