Metering Tools Slash Energy Costs
Fortune Small Business: The minute a lightbulb burns out in your place of business, Don Howell can tell you about it. By e-mail, that is – the tall Virginian won’t show up at your office door. His...
View ArticleProblem Or Opportunity?
I read today that according to the Environmental Protection Agency, American homeowners spill 17 million gallons of gasoline annually in their uncoordinated attempts to fuel lawn and garden equipment....
View ArticleNew DIY Solar For the Home
GreenRay is developing a do it yourself solar appliance that can plug your home into the sun. Their modular, plug-and-play AC solar panel drops the cost of solar by simplifying system design and...
View ArticleThe Idea Machine
Fortune Small Business reports that Saul Griffith gets up to 30 e-mails a day from qualified scientists eager to work for him. He can’t afford to hire them, so he wants to inspire them to be...
View ArticleRooftop Wind Turbines
RidgeBlade is a wind-power system that can be fitted to buildings with minimum visual impact and maximum energy conversion potential, reports trendspotter Springwise. This micro-generation system...
View ArticleBest Inventions of 2009: The Solar Shingle
TIME‘s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. The Dow Chemical Co. has developed a new roof shingle that doubles as a...
View ArticleThe Bloom Box
Large corporations have been testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. Will we have one in every home someday? 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl...
View ArticleCash For Appliances Offer Earth Day Savings
More than four months after states first started rolling out their appliance rebate programs, Earth Day is seeing those efforts reach their peak, reports KTVU.com. Since December, when Delaware became...
View ArticleCool Invention: The sOccket
It’s soccer’s newest utility player: A ball called the sOccket generates and stores energy as players kick it, then provides energy at home. reports Readers Digest. Fifteen minutes on the field...
View ArticleStudent’s Idea Turns Roadsides Into Cash Cropland
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...
View ArticlePopular Science’s ‘Garage Invention’ Awards 2010: ECO-Auger
‘Garage inventors’ is a term used to describe individuals or groups of inventors that create independently. They are not on a salary or salary/incentive basis, paid by their companies to invent; they...
View ArticleZero Energy Homes Catch On
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...
View ArticleCruising With The WENG
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...
View ArticleGreen Biz: Powerhouse Dynamics
In 2008, as the market for home energy management systems grew, Nielsen Van Duijn and Carsten Steenberg founded Powerhouse Dynamics to commercialize a monitor they had developed as a side project....
View ArticleEveryday Behaviors Can Produce Clean Energy
According to a story at Fast Company, all vibrations are good vibrations in the world of energy harvesting. Whether it’s a road under heavy traffic or commuters pounding the sidewalk pavement,...
View ArticleGreen Biz: Re:char
Food processors’ byproducts such as rice hulls, nut shells, and other waste are normally trashed. But Jason Aramburu, Chief Executive Officer of re:char, sees it all as an untapped source of cooking...
View ArticleGreen Depot
Founder and president Sarah Beatty bills Green Depot as the country’s largest green building supplier, with 10 showrooms and 20 warehouses across the Northeast. She says the fast-growing business...
View ArticleRecurve
Recurve, a six-year-old construction company in the Bay Area, focuses on energy audits and “home performance retrofits”—that is, making houses use less energy, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The...
View ArticleFlorida Tests Inventors’ Sand-Cleaning Ideas
The Associated Press reports that Florida officials are seeking inventors to save the state’s pristine beaches from the Gulf of Mexico spill. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection...
View ArticleInvention Allows You To Insert Batteries Any Way You Like
If you have used a digital camera or any gadget that requires batteries, occasionally you insert the batteries the wrong way preventing the device from working till you switch them around. GadgetVenue...
View ArticleElectrifying The Fishing Boat Biz
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, if more and more motorists are excited about electric cars, maybe fishermen are ready to trade their outboard motors for battery-powered boats. Frank Jones has...
View ArticleInventor’s Journal: Jim Atkinson
In this episode, Rich Whittle talks with Jim Atkinson about how to save money heating your home with the DryerNet, dryer vent filter.
View ArticleHow They Made That Nissan Leaf Polar Bear Ad
It’s always fun to take a peek at how they make the commercials we see on TV and the Internet. USA Today has a behind-the-scenes look at the Nissan Leaf Polar Bear commercial.
View ArticleOne Spark Of An Idea
Every so often an idea comes along that stops you in your tracks. sOccket is an incredible demonstration of the power of a simple idea, of the collision between science and sport, of the application of...
View ArticleBox Bikes Become Car Alternative
According to The New York Daily News, a big-bucks bicycle is turning heads – as well as corners – on the city’s streets. Wacky-looking box bikes, with room for the kids, groceries and laundry, are...
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