eBay’s WorldofGood.com is the world’s largest multi-seller marketplace for socially and environmentally responsible shopping, which features thousands of products from around the world and combines trust and transparency with the online shopping experience.
How can businesses save thousands of dollars and help the environment at the same time? By installing waterless urinals, businesses can reduce their water consumption by more than 40,000 gallons per year and halt needless water waste in the process.
Maternova is a web-based innovation portal: one part long-range media company covering innovations focused on saving lives in childbirth, one part marketplace for lifesaving ideas and tools.
For the founders of Development Alternatives based in New Delhi, India, creating sustainable livelihoods is about designing and disseminating appropriate technologies based on natural resources. Fundamentally, it’s about survival.
The High Line is a public park built atop a previously-abandoned elevated railway in Manhattan’s West Side, exemplifying the re-adaptation of existing industrial infrastructure into a place of leisure, reflection, and culture embedded within the urban fabric.
Located in Stellenbosch, a University town 30 minutes drive from Cape Town, The Lynedoch EcoVillage is the first ecologically designed and socially mixed intentional community in South Africa.
Eco Aqua, a South African company specializing in sustainable water purification systems, has developed an energy-efficient, hand-operated water purification system to deliver clean water to the world’s poorest people.
The Sixth Wave is a business book, motivational book, bold prediction and roadmap to the future. It is for anyone interested in understanding how the next wave of innovation will change our lives, and how to succeed in a resource-limited world.
Loowatt is a waterless toilet that aims to reduce water consumption in urban environments while producing energy through anaerobic digestion of human waste.
WiredSafety.org is a volunteer-run, cyber-neighborhood watch group that provides outreach, education and help regarding cyber-risk issues, including the dangers of cyberbullying and how it can be stopped.
Located west of Beijing, China, Mentougou EcoValley is posed to become a center of ecological research that experiments with diverse new materials, technologies and synergies between technology and nature.
Rethinking every element of current vehicle design, Edison2 has developed the Very Light Car (VLC), an ultra-efficient, light vehicle with low aerodynamic drag, which was recently named winner of the Automotive X PRIZE.
