Enviropreneurs

11/03/2016

Sarah Bellos from Stony Creek Colors is developing indigo that will dye jeans using less water and no petrochemicals: bit.ly/2fHICjX

It’s no secret that

10/01/2016

"Calling someone green used to lead to gunfights out here, but now it means we can charge more."
-PERC enviropreneur Paul Schwennessen on the politics of "local" food.

"Calling someone green used to lead to gunfights out here, but now it means we can charge more."

09/29/2016

Meet the 14yo enviropreneurs: "Styro-Filter is just the beginning of an innovation to take dirty waste and make clean water."
http://bit.ly/2dCsFYh

After 50 hours in a lab, three Ohio eighth-graders convert Styrofoam food containers into a patent-worthy new water filter

09/28/2016

Meet the Indonesian enviropreneurs helping people see that "garbage can be valuable and healthcare isn’t necessarily so expensive after all."
Indonesia Medika featured in The Guardian: bit.ly/2cKpgYJ

A scheme aims to tackle poverty and waste in Indonesia by collecting rubbish from some of country’s poorest people giving them health insurance in exchange

09/28/2016

Car sharing offers an "an important case study of durable environmental solutions."

Todd Myers from the Washington Policy Center in the The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/2cJQWNl

Zipcar, Car2Go and other car-sharing services are making a positive impact on the environment, says WSJ Energy Expert Todd Myers.

09/22/2016

These enviropreneurs illustrate that, "far from being worthless garbage, the bottles and bags littering the tideline can be a valuable resource."
https://t.co/GebKSjvjcB

There are millions of tonnes of plastic floating in the world’s oceans. But, as this table at the London Design Biennale proves, we needn’t think of it as trash

09/15/2016

The at Earthware Inc. make cutlery with a corn-based resin that decomposes in 6 months. Incubated at EcoTech Visions: huff.to/2cooLAM

THE BLOG The Big Idea That's Growing Green Business in America 09/08/2016 05:08 pm ET | Updated 4 days ago NationSwell Digital Media Company After a lifetime of eating with disposable knives and forks, Michael Caballero, a 25-year-old industrial engineer at FedEx, looked the plastic cutlery in his w...

09/05/2016

"Traditionally our Māori looked after our people themselves." Enviropreneur Rawinia Puna on green burials via Maori Television: bit.ly/2ctJlDA

A Māori woman passionate about her culture and the environment has created a green alternative for families organising funerals for their loved ones. Rawinia...

08/24/2016

Meet the enviropreneurs: Solar Sister works to eradicate energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. bit.ly/2bizU4U

Solar Sister eradicates energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. We combine the breakthrough potential of solar technology with a delibe...

08/17/2016

“We complain about air pollution. What if we had a way to capture, clean & repurpose it into a means of expression?” Check out the enviropreneurs Graviky Labs!

We’ve been pouring carbon into our atmosphere for over 200 years, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the global climate. Now a start-up venture called Air Ink has found a good use for some of that extra carbon: a line of pens whose ink is made of recycled air pollution.

07/22/2016

Walk into Wildfire at the Foundry on 16 S Tracy in downtown Bozeman. Today through Monday. PERC.org/wildfire

07/07/2016

Meet the enviropreneurs at LO3 Energy. Their TransActive Grid uses blockchain to foster renewable energy trading:
http://n.pr/29AcY3g

A project called TransActive Grid is testing a new way to trade solar power among neighbors. For now only credits are being traded — not actual energy — using the technology that underpins bitcoin.