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Company Developing Sustainable Packaging Made from Coconuts
Texas-based green materials firm, Whole Tree Inc., announced that it will be testing the waters in the sustainable packaging industry with its proprietary coconut-based material.
Tennessee Gets in on Solar EV-Charging Stations
The first station will be erected at EPRI’s lab in Knoxville, Tennessee, and working with TVA, one of the biggest power producers in the U.S., more will be installed around the state in coming months.
The Mercury Train: The Concorde of High Speed Rail
Making train travel exciting, sexy, and super comfortable, a new high-speed train design by PriestmanGoode aims to get the British government moving on high-speed rail across the country.
A Cardboard Box that Sprouts Life at the End of Its Own
According to its creators, Stamets’ Life Box and Tree Life Box “builds upon the synergy of fungi and plants by infusing spores and seeds together inside of packaging materials that can be planted.”
Pizza Box Design Eliminates Need for Plates (w/video)
The Green Box by Ecoincorporated is designed to easily break down into four plates for you and your pizza-loving guests.
NASA Opens Lunar Robot Mining Competition
22 teams from universities across the U.S. are competing ” to develop robotic mining equipment.
UPACKS Form-Fitting Cardboard Box: Innovation or Over-Engineering?
Innovations in cardboard boxes come along about as often as innovations in mouse traps, or perhaps even less. But designer Patrick Sung thinks you can make a better cardboard box, and if you pay attention, you might even be able to make the same box twice.
Earth and Industry Day: Win an HP Compaq 8000f Desktop w/22-Inch LCD Display
The energy efficient HP Compaq 8000f Elite is the first Windows-based Desktop PC in the industry to be completely free of brominated flame retardants and Polyvinyl chloride — and thanks to the good people at HP, we’re giving one away for Earth Day.
FloDesign Raises $42.8 Million for Jet-Inspired Wind Turbine
FloDesign secures $34.5 million of venture capital to go with $8.3 million from feds via ARPA-E program.
Measuring Wind Speed with Solar-Powered Sonic Wind Profiling
a Massachusetts company has developed a system that measures wind speeds and other data–up to a height of 200 meters in the air–without the need for meteorological tower or guy-wires. In fact, the whole thing fits in the back of a pick-up.
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