February 2010
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Lack of Water Management Poses Risks for Capital... →
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Water doesn’t usually appear on corporate balance sheets. But, that may change in the near future as…
Ignite Clean Energy MIT Business Plan Competition... →
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Teaser: Business competitions at universities help accelerate the commercialization of technologies and birth of startups. The MIT…
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Teaser: The future of U.S. media is uncertain. The iconic organizations that pioneered our…
November 2009
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The farther your food travels the worse it is for...
If you live in Iowa, the average carrot must travel 1,600 miles to reach your plate. According to research by IBM’s Smarter Planet Campaign, if you eat carrots, you’re a polluter. The truth is, that if you eat anything from your local grocery store, even the organic section, it has traveled a long distance. Only 1 to 2 percent of all food consumed in the U.S. is locally produced.
Food issues such...
October 2009
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Let's Build Something Together
To kick things off let me tell you why we started Clean Economies. We have a lot of problems. We have problems because new variables such as population increase, environmental strain, and urbanization have not been accounted for in the structures we use to make society work. But we didn’t start Clean Economies because we have problems; we started it because we have solutions. There are a lot...
August 2009
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Sustainable Communities.
alexandrahastings:
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about sustainable communities. Not sustainable in the sense that they have a low carbon footprint (although this is an important aspect to creating an economically sustainable community), but in the sense that people want to live there.
Among other things, a sustainable community is facilitated by an infrastructure that encourages interaction...
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WatchEvery year, there are 3.5 billion people who surfer from a lack of clean water. Of these 3.5 billion people, 3 million kids die each year.
Michael Pritchard explains that “each day…there are millions of people who are forced to drink dirty water or face death.”
His solution is the “LifeSaver” bottle.
Before the LifeSaver bottle, the best filter had pores 200...
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