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Ultimate Guide to Green Business Ideas. Need a little green business inspiration?

Ultimate Guide to Green Business Ideas

Then you’ve come to the right place. This ultimate guide to green business ideas is chock full of creative, innovative green business opportunities that are growing rapidly in today’s green economy. Green Online Business Ideas An internet business is a great way to work from home while contributing to the green economy. Whether you want to start a business that promotes green products, help to provide consumers with ideas for how to live a greener lifestyle, create games and apps with a green message for computers and mobile devices, or make it easier for treehuggers to connect online, we’ve got green business ideas you’ll find irresistible: Off - Door Handle Concept by Eun-ah Kim, Jin Hyuk Rho & Maria Rho.

Outta-the-door Reminder So, you and the family is going on this big vacation and just as you finish locking up everything and shut the main door, your wife calls out – hon, did you check the gas and switch-off all the lights?

Off - Door Handle Concept by Eun-ah Kim, Jin Hyuk Rho & Maria Rho

Sounds familiar? How about if you had the ‘Off’ installed! It is a door handle with connections to your mains like gas supply and electricity. Simply switch off both or either one of the services by rotating the dial and flip it back to activate it all. Designers: Eun Ah Kim, Jinhyuk Rho & Maria Rho. Ideas and Inspiration from Emerging Markets. Ideas and Inspiration from Emerging Markets Many multinationals, in the last few years, have ramped up their efforts to better understand their long-term future in a world where 9 billion people need to live amidst converging pressures on food, energy, and environment.

Ideas and Inspiration from Emerging Markets

Some, like GE, P&G, and Microsoft have turned to emerging markets to innovate new products, processes, and business models. Sustainability professionals looking for new solutions should also take note. Emerging markets provide a wealth of information, ideas and knowledge about how to thrive in the face of massively constrained resources – as well as being the current and future growth markets for many companies. An initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, known as the Searchlight Project, tracks signals related to low-income innovation and sheds light on coming sustainability challenges in these regions. 1. 2. 3.

New Tiny Lithium Ion Battery is 2,000x More Powerful and Can Charge 1,000x Faster. With lithium ion batteries, it used to be that you would have to choose between power and storage capacity.

New Tiny Lithium Ion Battery is 2,000x More Powerful and Can Charge 1,000x Faster

But researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have proven that it is possible to have the best of both worlds with their new microbattery. Led by William P. King, the team published their results in the journal Nature Commincations this week. Their technology could enable radio signals that could be broadcast 30 times farther and create devices 30 times smaller. The amazing new battery is able to be charged 1,000 times faster than rival batteries, and it’s about 2,000 times more powerful than its competitors. The scientists were able to create such an astonishing increase in efficiency by building a fast-charging cathode (plus side) alongside a similarly constructed anode (minus side).

“This is a whole new way to think about batteries,” King said. FABRICTIONARY: Orange Fiber: A High-Fashion Textile Derived From Citrus Waste. N 1 a: A textile fiber made by extracting cellulose from citrus fruits. b: Said to release vitamins A, C, and E upon contact with skin, a result of natural citrus oils that are embedded in the fabric. c: A solution to the growing problem of citrus-waste disposal in southern Italy. 2 a: Developed by a trio of student-entrepreneurs in collaboration with Polytechnic University of Milan. b: One of the 10 projects selected for the Changemakers Expo Milano 2015. 3 a: The primary material used in fashion designer Adriana Santanocito’s Fall/Winter 2012 collection.

FABRICTIONARY: Orange Fiber: A High-Fashion Textile Derived From Citrus Waste

[Via C.L.A.S.S] Episode 472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming : Planet Money. Camille Seaman/Barcroft Media/Landov Climate change seems like this complicated, intractable problem.

Episode 472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming : Planet Money

But maybe it doesn't have to be. On today's show, we talk to a couple economists about a very simple idea that could solve the climate-change problem: Tax carbon emissions. A carbon tax could be paired with cuts in the income tax. And it would drive down emissions without picking winners or losers, and without creating complicated regulations.