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Brightly Colored Solar Panels With Less Silicon Harness Indirect Sunlight

by Gloria Campos

If you love solar power and solar products, but fear the impact shade from cloudy or dark days may have on your panels, your fears conquered soon. GreenSun Energy Ltd. has found a colorful and innovative new way to harness indirect sunlight.

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Modern Day Eco-Friendly Skinny Dipping

by Gloria Campos

If you have ever been brave enough to skinny dip into a body of water or showered in your birthday suit underneath a waterfall, you may just like this eco-friendly concept. It brings water, nature and you into your shower. It's eco-clean.

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Solar Power From Space by 2030 Possible?

by Gloria Campos

What would it take to harness solar power from space then beam it down to earth? Money? Years? Super long cables? Solar panel maker Mitsubishi Electric Corp and IHI Corp would like to find out.

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Human Hair in Solar Panels Make Solhair Power

by Gloria Campos

Another reuse for human hair has been discovered thanks to a young bright man from Nepal. Using human hair, the young man and his friends, invented a method to power more affordable solar panels for their village and hopefully the rest of the world. Is it Solhair Power?

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Coffee Ground Printer Makes Addicts Feel Less Guilty

by Gloria Campos

Sometimes I come across a green concept that I wish would really be put into practice, like this innovative eco-printer idea. The printer uses ink made from coffee grounds to print text. Sounds pretty neat right?

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Wall-E’s Girl-friend’s Cousin, Le Petit Prince, a Robotic Garden For Mars

by Gloria Campos

Do you remember Wall-E's girlfriend Eve? Her mission was to find plant life. Once she did, it was her mission to protect the plant. Le Petit Prince, though still a concept, is also a robot that has a similar mission, except he already has a plant inside him and it's his mission to keep it alive.

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I Scream, You Scream, Unilever Screams For an Eco-Friendly Ice Cream

by Gloria Campos

Did you know something as simple as a pint of the sweetest, creamiest, most chocolaty Rocky Road ice cream can use a vast amount of energy to keep it frozen? Luckily, Unilever, in an effort to minimize their environmental impact, is working on creating an innovative take-home and freeze-yourself ice cream. Yeah!

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Wear Nature Smack In The Face, Especially If You’re an Ugly Bastard

by Gloria Campos

In the city tall buildings, busy streets, unpleasant sounds and unpleasant smells can make living or working in urban life unbearable. What if you could carry a piece of nature with you all day? Would wearing a living accessory make a difference?

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Kinkiest Recycling Program Ever Makes Sex-Happy Eco-Conscious Adults Happier

by Gloria Campos

Dreamscapes has made recycling a little sexier, in a way that was long overdue. How? Dreamscapes is greening up the sex toy industry one toy at a time, not in a moldy or gangrene kind of way. Dreamscapes created a sex toy-recycling program.

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Wearable Solar Powered Cell Phone

by Gloria Campos

I have always said the best way to keep from loosing your cell phone is to wear it, like an accessory. Apparently I'm not the only one that thinks this. Seungkyun Woo & Junyi Heo have come up with a concept that converts a cellphone into a bracelet called Leaf.

NASA’s Earth-Friendly Flight Challenge

by Gloria Campos

Aviation plays such an important role in our lives today that despite the aviation industry’s harm to the environment we, as a society, cannot just cease flying. In an effort to promote more earth-friendly flying NASA recently announced the Green Flight Challenge.

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Portable Potty Makes Fresh Drinkable Water

by Gloria Campos

In an attempt to help people in countries in dire need of fresh drinking water Argentine designer Leonardo Manavella has invented a portable potty/water fountain.

Innovative Planet-Friendly Bike Ride In The Sky: The Shweeb

by Gloria Campos

What do you get when you combine a human, a bike, a monorail, exercise and a roller coaster together? A pedarail? Sort of. You get a fun innovative and earth-friendly park ride New Zealand calls a Shweeb.

Eco-Crafting With Toilet Paper Rolls That Make You Smile

by Gloria Campos

Like artist Yuken Teruya, artist Junior Fritz Jacquet makes toilet paper rolls art as well. He too puts my toilet paper roll binoculars to shame. To do it he crumbles and fold toilet paper rolls until they look back at him in, happiness, disgust, anger, sadness and so on.

Wet and Green Dumpster Diving

by Gloria Campos

Some people throw their trash into a dumpster, others dive right into dumpsters with a big splash. Are they crazy? No! It turns out a few dumpsters have been recycled into dumpster pools by an innovative company really interested, at least for the moment, in sustainable development.

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Wal-Mart Greenwashing With Eco-Indexing System?

by Gloria Campos

Today, if Wal-Mart has an innovative idea to attract consumers, chances are other retailers will want to use the idea too. Sometimes this can be a bad thing, but sometimes it can also be good. For example, take the new eco-indexing system Wal-Mart plans to have in place within 5 years. If the system succeeds consumers will know the environmental impact of their purchases.

Gorgeous Artwork With Disposable Cutlery

by Diana Eid

What can you do with all those leftover knives and spoons from that last big party? Artist Daisuke Hiraiwa creates beautiful chandeliers among other things out of plain old ordinary objects.

Pee Power Potential Fuel: Convenient and Greener

by Gloria Campos

Ever wonder how much pee power you have? No? Maybe you should. It turns out your pee isn't just waste. It has fueling potential according to scientist from Ohio University. This fueling potential could be put to use in the near future.

Stressed Out And Working Like A Dog?

by Donna Pacheco

You're grumpy. You're tired. You work through the weekends. And you don't remember the last time you took a vacation. What started out as a hobby or a passion has morphed into small business far beyond your control.

Are You Cut Out To Be An Entrepreneur?

by Donna Pacheco

People crash and burn all the time. A failed business, a stock market fiasco, an unexpected job termination. If there's anything you can bet your money on, it's that life doesn't always work out as you plan.

So prepare, prepare, prepare! Most people don't understand how much psychological well-being plays into being an entrepreneur. Knowing what you should expect and how you should deal with it is winning half the battle.

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