When Lighting your House is Unexpected
In this blog we have looked at various unexpected ideas, and often these are big ideas or innovations from organisations, such as electric bikes, worm poop plant food, and plans to mine the moon for rocket fuel. But unexpected ideas may also be things you and I take for granted – like lighting and water. [...]
I Yike the Yike Bike
I have been fascinated by the New Zealand designed and developed Yike Bike, which has been profiled on New Zealand TV3 recently, and has also been launched at the Germany Eurobike Show this last week. The Yike Bike is an electric bike, that can be collapsed and carried away in a carry bag. With a [...]
Interface Looking after Tomorrow’s Child
We have a choice to make during our brief brief visit to this beautiful green and blue living planet – to hurt it or to help it. Ray Anderson, Founder of Interface, 2009 I watched the below presentation from Ray Anderson on www.ted.com a couple of days ago and it was an unexpected inspiration. From [...]
TerraCycle – A Business Built on Waste and Worm Poop
TerraCycle is an eco-capitalism business that makes all of its products entirely from waste. Their unexpected business model and products have generated massive media attention, creating a strong profile and following for their ground-breaking business. Their founding product was TerraCycle Plant Food. TerraCycle is paid to take waste product, which they feed to worms, and [...]
I don’t eat organic lentils but I did vote green
On Saturday 8 November, just four days after US citizens voted in Obama in as their new President, New Zealanders too went to the polls to vote in their preferred Government for the coming three years. Now I generally don’t consider myself to be an organic lentil eating, vege patch growing, tree hugger. However, this [...]
The Pig Ate My Plate
According to a recent Time Small Business article The Dish on Green Disposables Americans use an estimated trillion disposable plates and utensils every year, with each disposable plate’s useful life averaging just five minutes. Add to this the fact that disposable plastic plates do not decompose – they sit in landfills for hundreds of years. [...]