Environment +
Energy

There are many restaurants and insitutions that use vegatable oil. The used oil can be recycled into biofuels. What are the key attributes that will help create a business to identify sources of used oil, cooordinate pick-up, find the recycling…

Either don’t use one, or when you can, wash it off and re-use it. Just think of all the straws that go into the landfills every day. We can take the same approach with wooden chopsticks.

Within a household, we generate waste water which can be resuse for irrigation, flushing toilet. My idea is to install barries, drainage system to collect the waste water and delivery it to the room/area within a house for reuse. To address the…

Install rain water catchments in all new office buildings and residences in cities with rainy seasons.

I think the new fuel standards presented by Obama this week are weak.

The flow of traffic is much slower than it could be because each vehicle is controlled by a person who must watch out for the unexpected movements of other drivers, changes in traffic signals, etc. Have you ever been in one of those traffic jams…

Zoos are so old. Why stay 40 feet from a tiger when you can see one a foot away? Build weather proof solar power WEBEX/Telepresence units and place them at known feeding centers anywhere there’s big interesting game to watch.

To build a “rubbish melter” in every town. You take the rubbish on the rubbish dumps and throw it in the melter. This must create something like molten lava that will be thrown into molds. When the stuff in the molds cool down, it can…

Like a lot of people i’m keen to do what I can to look after the environment. I’ve found this more difficult in more recent years tho as there are so many rules …so i’m trying to encourage old school recyling between my…

In an age when we are supposed to be greener and more health concious, why cant vegeteble patches be incorporated in landscape designs in work places? It means home grown produce, less transport costs for produce, a social link between colleagues…

Children can fill and refill plastic water bottles with water, juice, or Kool-Aid rather than using disposable drink boxes. Tupperware or other containers can be used for snacks (i.e. fruit, veggies, dessert) rather than pre wrapped snacks. Lunch…

We have thousands of miles of black top that is only being used for driving on. Why not install solar panels that you can drive on that will generate power for the surrounding homes? I’m sure there are planty of uses that haven’t…

CLosing the office 1 day a week to allow employees to work from home would save our natural resources. Minimal electricity and fuel used for that one day multiplied billions of times over, imagine the savings.

Communities that have land set aside for protection against deveopment should use that land to harness wind, solar and water powered energy. The monies that are collected by selling the power back into the grid should be used to offset residential…

We cannot wait for governments or even consumers to recycle more. A consumer packaging company needs to use packaging made from a renewable resource i.e. no plastic. On a wider scale, a community needs to use the waste of that community to make…

I hold a copyright on a building that uses geothermal, ssolar, and wind power to produce electricity. I am trying to get the proto-type of the building up.

The fact that all windows let in sunlight to a certain extent, then why are the propereties of windows not engineered to act as solar panels??? My home is equipped with a first generation “Inflector window solar systems as an alternative…

In today’s world where everyone wants to be more “green” we talk about using more public transportation. However I believe a large part of the population just does not know how to use it. we should teach children at a young age…

With power companies offering the option for their customers to buy renewable energy certificates to offset their carbon footprint in the home, oil companies could allow their customers to do the same thing at the gas pump. Modern gas pumps can be…

Plastic water bottles are a huge and unnecessary contribution to the waste stream and use fossil fuels in their manufacture and recycling. The only realistic way to get rid of them is for people to “vote with their feet” and make better…

In our town, they have recycling for free and the town gets some revenue from the material recycled. Or the transfer station allows you to dump your garbage for $2 a barrel. Recycle more and save money for yourself while generating revenue for…

Use old discarded paperclips to form a boxspring for mattress or to use as a strainer for larger rocks or such from water.

Make window blinds using solar cells to harvest solar energy during the day when both provide share inside and the potential for electricity to be stored in rechareable batteries. The batteries can be used to power high output LEDs to provide light…

An eco entrepreneurship that gives back to “sea” life in a different way. We have brought ocean conservation to the retail snack aisle. The strength of the Whale Tails Tortilla Chips brand is its functional shape, great flavor,…