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June 2013
Generating Light With Gravity
Gravity Light: Did you know that there are currently over 1.5 billion people in the World who have no reliable access to mains electricity? These people rely, instead, on biomass fuels (mostly kerosene) for lighting once the sun goes down. A commonly held view is that solar powered lighting is the answer to these problems
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Elephant Dung Coffee
Associated Press: In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world’s most expensive coffee. Trumpeted as earthy in flavor and smooth on the palate, the exotic new brew is made from beans eaten by Thai elephants and plucked a day later from their dung. A gut
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Bootstrap This: A Free CRM, Project Manager and Enterprise Network for Small Businesses
Money is always an issue for startups and small businesses. So if you are in the bootstrap mode, take note of Bitrix24.com – new social enterprise network launched by BitrixSoft (the #2 maker of intranet CMS behind Microsoft). If your company is smaller than 12 employees, Bitrix24 offers you free social intranet, free CRM, free
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Niche Dating Site: French Farmers
NY Times: Patrick Maignan, a robust gray-haired farmer, lives alone on his farm, surrounded only by the freshly plowed wheat fields of this lonely corner of northern France. The New York Times The lack of love in the countryside is a serious topic. Far from tourist routes and cellphone coverage, he works seven days a
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Niche Product: Affordable, Eco-Friendly Charcoal
Joyce Solomon felt it was time to find a charcoal alternative people could embrace. So, she discovered a new way to make it. The technology can transform waste materials and the remains of tree-made charcoal into something people can use, reports ippmedia. The entrepreneur, Joyce Solomon, who operates a plant of the newly introduced eco-friendly
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$4.3 Million Prize for Making Insects into Food
The European Commission is offering a $4.32 million prize to the group that comes up with the best idea for developing insects as a popular food. The Commission is counting on cattle and other large animals being an increasingly untenable source of protein in decades to come, and hopes that some research group will be
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Niche Biz: Retired School Buses Go to Latin America and Become Chicken Buses
Amusing Planet: What happens to yellow school buses retired from commission in the United States? They start a new colorful life as Chicken Buses in Guatemala. When American school buses reach the age of ten years or 150,000 miles, they are sold at auction. Many of these buses are bought and driven down through Mexico
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I, Pencil: The Movie
The film above is from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and is adapted from the 1958 essay by Leonard E. Read “I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read.†For more about “I, Pencil,†visit www.ipencilmovie.org. At this link, you will find a number of extended commentary videos on the same subject.
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