A new study from United Nations University explores the economic value of human poop, and the wealth potential of making use of it in the developing world.
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How Much Of That Plastic In Your Blue Bin Really Gets Recycled? [Video]
An awful lot of US food-grade plastic still doesn’t get recycled; Lifecycle Plastics believes its sorting technology can change that, and create jobs.
Allowing Waste Pickers Access To A Competitive Recycling Market [Video]
Waste pickers collect recycable trash to feed themselves. Plastics for Change has developed a mobile technology giving them access to pricing information.
Can You Help Launch The Best Green Jobs Site Ever?
Important Media is raising funds to create the web’s best green jobs site. Contributors can buy books, games, ads, or just a good feeling.
The Clean Cook Stove that Runs Partially on Trash [Video]
The K2 clean cook stove concept can cleanly burn small amounts of plastic trash in its fuel mix, a common practice in the developing world.
The Cool Techie DIY Beehive: Another Tool for Colony Collapse Disorder
The Open Source Beehives project publishes printable plans for honeybee shelter that are ready for a computer-controlled cutter (and that can be made really techie with sensor kits).
How Does Wind Power Work? Hands-On KidWind Challenge Trains Students in Renewable Energy
I’ve been passionate about educational programs for sustainability from sustainablog’s earliest days, so I wasn’t surprised at all to discover that I’d written about Minneapolis-based educational company KidWind way back [ … ]
Poop to Power: How to Extract Value from Poopy Water
Between humans and livestock, we produce an awful lot of poop… and the methods we currently use to deal with all that mess use a lot of energy and clean water. Startup Pilus Energy thinks they have a solution for extracting value from all that messy stuff…
The Online Game that Plants Real Seeds: Rainmaker Project
The Rainmaker Project has something quite different in mind from the standard notion of an online game about planting seeds and crops: a global community committed to the sustainable exchange and planting of seeds… in the real world. It ain’t Farmville; rather, its more like Facebook itself, made up of people committed to expanded landscape of real, live plants, and ideas for cultivating those plants more sustainably.
Hydroponic Gardening Made Easy: Sustainable Microfarms’ Automated Controller System
Sustainable Microfarms is a socially-focused startup developing products for making food production more efficient. They’re raising funds to launch their first product, which could make even the most chemistry-phobic of us consider trying out hydroponics.
EcoRecho: the Clean Cook Stove for Haitians
Can a clean cook stove use charcoal as its fuel source? I didn’t think so until I came across the EcoRecho, and the realities of cooking food in the most impoverished parts of Haiti.
Pay as You Go Solar: a Promising Model for Developing World Electricity?
Guatemalan renewable energy company Quetsol believes that the “pay as you go” model can work for electrification of remote communities in the developing world.
Come Hang with sustainablog to Discuss Current Crowdfunding Projects
We’re sharing current crowdfunding projects at this week’s Hangin’ with sustainablog. Got one you’re running or supporting? Come share it with us.