Posts under ‘Green Business’

In one of the poorest areas of Paraguay a woman named Elsa Zaldivar has made a difference.  She has gathered the local women and created a way for them to sustain themselves by harvesting the local crop of Loofah and creating a revenue stream for themselves.  Originally, the project started out with the women selling [...]

Think about how many plastic bottles of water you consume each week.  Now multiply that by the number of people on the planet drinking water from a plastic bottle.   The amount of plastic hitting landfills from just water bottles is staggering.   A company called Brand Image has a solution.  They have created durable bottles created [...]

Ecocho.com is a new eco friendly search engine which plants five trees for every 1000 searches made on its website.  Ecocho uses Yahoo’s search technology to power searches made on their site and the resulting trees are purchased from advertising revenue generated on the site.  Searches lead to trees being planted which results in slowing [...]

I’m sure everyone who is reading this has moved at some point in their life.   Its often a hassle that involves moving things you haven’t moved in years, finding things you thought you lost years ago, and packing it all up to take to the next place.  Most people go down to their local moving [...]

You know those leaves you rake up and throw away?  Would you be impressed if I told you could make cool products including furniture from those leaves?  I know you would!  Naturecast is doing just that.  They are gathering dry leaves, barks, and dead twigs from the city of Compostela in the Phillipines, shredding them [...]

A couple of weeks ago we reported on companies using recycled shipping containers to develop homes.  Travelodge has taken it a step further by building an entire hotel in Uxbridge, England out of recycled shipping containers.  Not only is Travelodge doing the environment a favor by reducing their material usage by 70%, but they are [...]

Its amazing the number of useful things people are creating from things normally tossed into the garbage.  In the past I have seen mostly smaller companies taking part in sort of effort to reduce their footprint, which is great, but the real impact occurs when larger entities are involved in recycling.  The larger companies environmental [...]

Hard core gamers can do their part for the environment by placing an order for the Reee chair.  Why?  The Reee chair is made from recycled game console casings.  The seat and back use the rubber from recycled game consoles to wrap around black powder coated steel for cool and comfortable chair.  The Reee probably [...]

While you may be thinking outside the box for work,  you can now live in it when you get home!  More and more people are building homes from recycled freight containers.  The original idea of using the containers for abodes was started by TempoHousing.  Their original idea was to use these old containers as temporary [...]

The mainstream has grown past just eating organic food to maintain a green lifestyle.  Many are demanding green clothes, green cars, and now even green living.  Homes and apartments using ecofriendly methods for water, energy, building materials, and building surroundings are surging in demand.  Many buildings, both residential and commercial, are also getting LEED certification. [...]