Treehugger, Instructables, and Popular Science have teamed up for a contest that promotes creating your own eco-friendly projects. Hopefully most people know what Treehugger and Popular Science is might not know what Instructables is all about. It is a website where users submit their own DIY and how-to guides for pretty much anything that you can think of. The prizes for the contest are:
StartingBloc is a four day youth leadership conference that brings together 100 young leaders from around the world to discuss social change, corporate sustainability efforts and social entrepreneurship. It is a great place to hear amazing speakers and meet other young activists. My friend just got back from the July 2007 London Fellowship and learned a lot from meeting and hearing from people from Green and NGO companies as well as from people with the same interests in the green space.
I go to networking events every week and every so often I will have interesting conversations with others about being environmental. In the web 2.0 and startup webisphere, there is not that many applications that are environment specific. Hopefully I can think of a startup idea that can combine web 2.0 with one but if anyone has ideas, let me know. An entrepreneur I met named Flora Sun created a facebook application that encourages you and your friends to reduce carbon emissions from your lifestyle. The application has a list of activities that people can do in their daily routine that can be more beneficial to the environment. The application is a mini carbon footprint calculator that will show how much CO2 you have saved and will also list how much your friends have saved. Considering how popular Facebook is, this can be a good way to promote to your friends to participate in the activities listed in the application. It also allows you to suggest activities that can be added to the Carbon Diet Plan.
The Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that will give you information about every single species out of the 1.8 million on Earth. E.O. Wilson of Harvard University had the goal of creating a constantly evolving encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia and is a work in progress with $10 million in funding from the MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million from the Sloan Foundation. The website will hopefully be live in 2008 and is a joint global effort by the world’s leading scientific institutions that will take about 10 years to complete pages for all 1.8 million species.
If you have always wanted a fireplace, but your house or aparment doesn’t have one, you can always use one of these. It is an eco-fire piit that is easy to maintain and reuse without the need for a chimney. The module can be placed anywhere for your apartment, house, bar, restaurant, office, indoor or outdoor. It is fueled by ethanol, a renewable green energy and is environmentally friendly.
