Nano Vent-Skin of Micro-Wind Turbines. Some think big when it comes to wind turbines; designer Agustin Otegui thinks very small, at the nano scale, with his idea for Nano Vent-Skin, the ultimate green wall.
"Using nano-manufacturing with bioengineered organisms as a production method, NVS merges different kinds of micro organisms that work together to absorb and transform natural energy from the environment. What comes out of this merging of living organisms is a skin that transforms two of the most abundant sources of green energy on earth: Sunlight and Wind. Green Housing. Gasland/Fracking. End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. Legal Battle Erupts Over Whose Plastic Consumers Should Trust : Shots - Health Blog. Hide captionCamelBak-brand water bottles on display at an outdoor supply store in Arcadia, Calif., in 2008.
The company removed BPA from the plastic in its bottles. David McNew/Getty Images In 2007, Eastman Chemical began marketing a tough new BPA-free plastic called Tritan. Business was good, says Lucian Boldea, a vice president at Eastman. "We were able to make the statement that our product is not made with BPA and would release data to consumers to support that fact," he says.