Ces 2010, the world’s largest consumer technology trade show, has lots to offer technology enthusiasts. The options for green tech enthusiasts, however, are limited. Sustainable IT blogger Ted Samson wishes for greener mobile devices, including phones made with renewables such as bamboo.
Bamboo Cell Phone – Coming Soon?
January 6th, 2010Bamboo Desks Launched in Bataan
December 30th, 2009The Philippines’ Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently turned over a first set of new bamboo school desks to students as part of a new bamboo development project. The project is intended to promote the cultivation and use of bamboo to help in mitigating climate change. The plan is to supply about 25 percent of the Philippines’ Department of Education’s desk requirements.
Do It Yourself: Building Your Own Bamboo Bike
December 22nd, 2009The Bamboo Bike Studio is run by three men in their late 20s who know a lot about bamboo and a lot about bicycles. On a cool autumn morning, two of them are out on a bamboo harvest — in a dense grove near New Brunswick, N.J. Justin Aguinaldo and Sean Murray carry a small Japanese pull saw and a caliper to find bamboo stems that are 1 1/2 inches thick. When they find stems that are just right, they tap the bamboo to make sure it’s not too soft: “If the bamboo’s too watery, it’s not as dense and it’s not as strong,” Aguinaldo explains.
Biorefineries Get A Boost
December 15th, 2009The United States recently moved one step closer to energy independence this past Friday as the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, announced the first wave of grant money towards biofuel. Advanced biofuels are those that do not rely on the corn kernel starch, with cellulosic ethanol being created from plant material such as switch grass, forest waste, fast-growing trees like bamboo and wood chips.
Minnesota Entrepreneur a Finalist for Forbes.com Competition
December 3rd, 2009Mankato, Minn. entrepreneur April Femrite has an interesting story to tell. She manufactures clothing from bamboo fibers. If you don’t know her business yet, you might soon. She’s a finalist for the Forbes.com “Boost your Business” competition, a sort of “American Idol” for entrepreneurs looking to make it big, or at least bigger.
Demand Grows For Bamboo as Wood Substitute and Food
November 17th, 2009Growing up as a farmer’s son, Lin Zuojun used to play hide-and-seek with his friends in the bamboo forest of Fujian province. Little did he know back then that he would one day make millions of yuan by selling those most common plants of the region.
Mountain Climbing for CEOs
November 4th, 2009Green-biz pioneer Ray Anderson says sustainability literally pays for itself. With his new book Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, he wants to spur other business leaders to “climb Mount Sustainability.”
For Smart Companies, the New Gold Rush is Green
October 28th, 2009According to Fortune editor Brian Dumaine, the new green economy will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and will generate as much wealth as computers and the Internet, if not more.
Bamboo to Sustain Life
October 20th, 2009At her bamboo farm in the Philippines, Kay Gozon Jimenez holds an annual seminar about bamboo as environmental savior.
US firm to invest up to $12M on biomass
October 15th, 2009A United States-based clean energy firm plans to invest $4 million to $12 million for a renewable energy power plant using biomass in Luzon.
