Foot Pump Phone Chargers
Festival goers at Glastonbury, in the U.K., can charge their cell-phones through using a standard airbed foot pump, the type normally found all over festival sites. The Orange Gotwind power pump’s turbine is rotated at speeds of up to 2000 rpm from the air flow generated by the foot pump, this turbine then directly drives the small but powerful alternator. A 5 minute phone call will require approximately 1 minute of foot pumping.
Learn more here.
Green Applications
T-Mobile introduces Green Perks, a free downloadable application that delivers exclusive discounts on green products and services directly to your phone. Just scroll through the offers on your phone, flash your Green Perks coupon when you check out, and you’re done. Featured offers include a 20% discount off Method home care and personal care products, as well as Jamba Juice, Quiksilver and Volcom.
Find out more here.
Standardized Phone Chargers
Ten leading mobile phone and chip makers have agreed to develop a universal standard micro-USB phone charger for the European market. The EU expects the first generation of standard mobile phone chargers to reach the market by 2010. The new standard charger will replace the more than 30 different kinds of charger currently in use and minimize electronic waste.
Find out more here.
Carbon Counters
In late June, Deutsche Bank place an 67-by-32-foot electronic billboard outside Madison Square Garden, where over 500,000 people see it daily. The Carbon Counter works as a meter on human-caused climate change, monitoring the real-time, cumulative pollution humans are emitting into atmosphere via data from MIT’s Global Climate Change Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Tracking progress through measurements and transparency.
Find out more here.
Air Purifiers
GreenAir builds on the ancient idea of purifying the indoor environment with living plants. In most cases, indoor air is more polluted than outdoor air. GreenAir absorbs contaminants from indoor air through the roots and leaves. A solar-powered fan lures the polluted air to the root region so that huge amount of contaminants can be gathered to purify in a shorter span of time. Designed by Sherly Gunawan at LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore.
Innovative Government
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency arranged its first-ever Water Quality Video Contest to engage citizens about water pollution and protection. Encouraging creativity and educating citizens about actions that they can take to reduce their impact is vital to improving the nations water quality.
See the winners here.
From Coal To Culture
If provided with the right knowledge and insights, culture is at its best a very powerful way of communicating. Global FOCUS works with Chinese artist and filmmakers, looking at the positive impacts the creative sector will gain as we move from a coal consuming society to a culture consuming society.
Find out more here.
Sustainable Automobiles
The Royal College of Art in London Summer Graduate Show is serving up fresh ideas on the future of cars. The department of Vehicle Design has produced several prototypes for sustainable automobiles to be admired and to inspire and industry in great need of innovation.
Find out more here.
Small Luxury Cars
In the meantime, Aston Martin launches the Cygnet. A concept that represents a creative, environmentally conscious solution, being small, yet with presence – and highly fuel efficient, now combined with the prestige of Aston Martin’s luxury brand ownership.
Find out more here.
Taxibots
Airbus and Israel Aerospace Industries is pursuing a joint venture of developing and testing environmental friendly pilot-controlled towing semi-robotic systems. Helping airplanes to taxi between the gate and runway without using their jet engines could potentially reduce CO2 emissions from 18 billion tons to 2 million tons, cut fuels costs from $8 to $2 billion and significantly reduce noise pollution.
Find out more here.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
This is a great eco-innovation: This covers all the bases = saves you money, helps the environment, helps your health, makes you feel better, it’s so easy to do and it costs less than $50.00; Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: “if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn’t wipe it off with paper, would you? You’d wash it off” Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won’t even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without feeling guilty. It’s cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You’ll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but remember the water use of industrial users far exceeds the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:48 am