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Space Garbage Collector
Around 100 million pieces of trash, . . . cast off from satellites, and rockets, . . . are circulating in space, . . . causing hundreds of potentially dangerous collisions each year. Now Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), . . . blasted into or...
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Recycled Shipping Containers
Agricool, . . . proposes urban agriculture done hydroponically, . . . out of recycled shipping containers, . . . to produce food that is: . . . . . . Local, . . . . . . Zero Transportation cost, . . . . . . Zero pesticide, . . . . . . Zero preservative...
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Follow The Money: Recycling Rockets
How much money do you save, . . . when you can Recycle a Falcon 9 Rocket. Today was the 4th successful powered mission landing for Falcon 9, . . . 3rd barge landing, and . . . 2nd following a geosynchronous transfer orbit mission. 5-31-2016 Source:...
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Reusable Space Launch Components
Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, . . . before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas. 11-25-2015 Source: Reusable space launch components
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Ted Cradle To Cradle Design
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough, . . . asks what our buildings. and products would look like. . . . if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time." 9-01-2015 Source: TED Cradle to Cradle Design
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Cheap, Tough, And Green
Ever heard the expression, “dirt cheap?” . . . Of course you have, because dirt is cheap. . . . It’s everywhere. . . . No matter where you go, there it is. As a building material, rammed earth is cheap, tough, and green. . . . So why is not used more...
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3D Printed Electric Car
The Strati, is the world's first 3D-printed car, a small 2-seater, . . . unveiled to the world last month at the, . . . International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago. The Chevrolet Volt, has a range of 40 miles, . . . but can achieve spee...
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Recycling Energy: "operating Reserves"
Grid "Operating Reserves," are essentially plant capacity used, . . . to accommodate short-term fluctuations. It's about extra power generated, that's constantly wasted and seldom ever used. Just because, sometimes, a bit of power is q...
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Recycling: Pizza Box
The GreenBox was invented by William Walsh after he got the idea to, . . . Re-Use the top of a pizza box as plates for his friends back in college. Made of 100% recycled materials, that can be recycled again, . . . as long as it remains unsoiled, by li...
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Symbiotic Relationship Of Fish & Plants
Aqualibrium: The fish live in an enclosure in the bottom of the system, . . . where they poop on a regular basis. . . . A pump continuously carries that waste-laden water up into the top section, . . . . . . where it serves as a fertilizer for the plan...
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Does Fema Know About This?
Fashioning one-person tents . . . out of Glad ForceFlex bags, . . . distributing them to campers on condition they use the tents, . . . as garbage receptacles at the end of the a Music festival, . . . for all of their generated waste. Source: TentBag
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World's Largest Sculpture
410,000 Oil Barrels, will make up the Worlds Largest Sculpture. . . . The 492-foot-tall, . . . $340 million structure, . . . taking over 30 months to build, and . . . located 100 miles from Abu Dhabi Source: 410,000 oil barrels Christo
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$9 Dollar Cardboard Bicycle
"You can't build a bicycle out of cardboard," Engineers told him. . . . But he did it anyway. Source: liveleak greenprophet
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100% Biodegradable Bottle As Benign As An Orang...
For people who don’t quite get how destructive our material and
. . . waste stream has become to the planet,
. . . can discard their waste without wondering how many years,
. . . it will languish in a landfill, generating gas and
. . . leaching chemicals into the environment.
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Plastics To Oil.
Mar 19 2012 12:00 AM | Shortpoet-GTD in Recycling
Dancing smilie icon goes here_________. "Only 7 percent of plastic waste in the United States is recycled each year, :wacko: according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A startup company in Niagara Falls says it can increase that amount and...
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