In 2008, Peter Frykman, a mechanical engineering student at Stanford University, designed a small, portable laser-manufacturing system that could quickly and accurately punch holes in cheap plastic tubing to make affordable drip irrigation systems. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, in June 2008, he founded Driptech with $5,000 of his own money. The 26-year-old entrepreneur has raised […]
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University of California, Berkeley business students Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez perked up when a business ethics professor mentioned a sustainable business opportunity: using nutrient-rich discarded coffee grounds to grow mushrooms, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Hooked on the idea of “creating a business out of waste streams,” Arora says, the pair tested the idea in a
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In a matter of weeks, Stanford University graduate students have built an electric car they hope will make daily travel more environmentally friendly, efficient, and fun. The WENG–”Where Everyone Needs to Go”–is built for short-range, low-speed drives and may soon be the cool new way to cruise the neighborhood–and possibly the antidote to the fully
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USA TODAY reports that homes are increasingly being built in the United States to use little or no energy, a trend that could help reduce U.S. dependence on oil and gas, according to a new book. Zero energy homes are becoming the new green,” says David Johnston, one of the nation’s leading experts on green
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A Westwego, Louisiana, man says he has the answer to capping that pipe gushing beneath the gulf, reports NewOrleans.com. Warren Gilbert is a hydraulic specialist. He developed this device he calls a crimper. Using hydraulics he says his machine can be retro fitted to work under water. The key is getting the crimper around the
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StarTribune.com: As a Target executive, Joseph Mudd helped small companies pursue business opportunities with the giant retailer. That experience triggered an “entrepreneurial itch” that inspired Mudd to start his own company, which he launched in 2008 after 13 years at Target. “I knew once I left corporate America, I wanted to do something on my
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According to Trendhunter.com, the Bokashi Pet Cycle Fermenting System is one part gross and one part genius. This innovative creation from Lawrence Green turns your pet’s crap into nutrient-rich soil. Why throw away pet waste when you can use it to help your garden grow? The Bokashi Pet Cycle is simple and easy to use.
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photo credit: ( Torsten ) Many business owners that are thinking about “going green” are wondering what this will do for them and their business in the profit area. Will they end up spending more on green products? Will they loose business by offering only green products and do these green products work just as
One mile southwest of Salt Lake International Airport, a 20-acre crop of safflower plants is growing on previously unused municipal land, reports USA TODAY. This fall the plot will be harvested, and oil from the plants will be processed into biodiesel fuel to operate Salt Lake County vehicles. Called FreeWays to Fuel, the program is
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Kim Ormsby was supposed to be a corporate executive or a veterinarian. What she was not supposed to be was the inventor of a new kind of cloth diaper that has catapulted the growing industry forward or the founder of a natural-infant-care company that has grown explosively each year since she started it in her
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