TOPIC: GREEN TECH (29)
Village Telco
http://villagetelco.orgThe Village Telco is an initiative to build low-cost community telephone network hardware and software that can be set up in minutes anywhere in the world. No mobile phone towers or land lines are required. The Village Telco uses the latest Open Source telephony software and low cost wireless mesh networking technology to deliver affordable telephony anywhere.
EcoGrader
http://www.mightybytes.com/ecograderEcoGrader is a free tool that will enable you to grade your websites on sustainability. EcoGrader will in turn help you find ways to reduce consumption, eliminate waste, and use less energy.
Bucky Box
http://www.buckybox.comBucky Box is the future of local food distribution. Simple to use, powerful software for automating ordering, customer accounts, packing & delivery logistics, and payments & billing reconciliation. Bucky Box is a social enterprise, supporting the local food movement through innovative partnerships, to bring about a better food system for people & planet.
Bici-Tec
http://bicitec.org/language/enBici-Tec works to provide sustainable, appropriate economic advancement for rural families in Guatemala though the developement of pedal powered technology
Freight Farms
http://www.freightfarms.comOur goal is to bring stability and sustainability to the food supply chain by providing complete farm-to-table systems that bring fresh, local produce to businesses, organizations and individuals all across the globe. The Freight Farm is a fully equipped growing facility that creates year-round access to freshly-grown food. Constructed inside a 40’x8’x9.6’ upcycled shipping container, freight farms are the complete farm-in-a-box package. The interior is designed for advanced climate simulation using state-of-the-art growing technology and automated controls, creating the perfect growing environment 365 days a year. By harnessing soilless agriculture methods and vertical growing, it’s possible to achieve commercial scale yields with a small footprint.
Living Building Challenge
http://living-future.org/lbcThe Living Building Challenge is a green building certification program that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to diminish the gap between current limits and ideal solutions. Projects that achieve this level of performance can claim to be the ‘greenest’ anywhere, and will serve as role models for others that follow.
Geneco
http://www.geneco.uk.comWe are committed to offering our customers innovative, cost effective and sustainable waste recycling and renewable energy solutions. Our market-leading treatment processes produce renewable energy and nutrient rich biofertilisers, helping to preserve our environment and reduce or eliminate our customer’s dependence on landfill.
MASS Design Group
http://www.massdesigngroup.org/index.htmlMASS Design Group operates under the belief that buildings can heal. By using innovative design and an immersive research process, we look at the contextual problems facing the specific communities we work in and produce design interventions that will improve health and economic outcomes. We work to reduce the spread of disease within health care environments, and we aim to create new job opportunities and markets by carefully selecting materials and construction methods that utilize the resources of the surrounding community. MASS delivers maximum impact design through a process that can be universally applied.
Shikun & Binui
http://en.shikunbinui.co.ilShikun & Binui is Israel’s leading infrastructure and real estate group. The Group’s companies are involved in large-scale projects in Israel and abroad, and have proven achievements in the construction of residential neighborhoods and commercial and public buildings, as well as in the establishment, financing and operation of huge ventures in the fields of transportation infrastructure, ecology, water purification and desalination, and international project development.
Greentech Media
http://www.greentechmedia.comGreentech Media (GTM) is devoted to covering emerging green and clean technologies. As renewable energy becomes an increasingly large sector, the business community needs a source with up-to-the-minute news on solar, smart grid, enterprise energy solutions, wind energy, electric vehicles, biofuels, water, batteries and storage, finance and VC, and policy throughout the sectors.
Global Forest Watch
http://www.globalforestwatch.orgGlobal Forest Watch (GFW) is a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests. For the first time, Global Forest Watch unites satellite technology, open data, and crowdsourcing to guarantee access to timely and reliable information about forests. GFW is free and follows an open data approach in putting decision-relevant information in the hands of governments, companies, NGOs, and the public. Global Forest Watch was created by the World Resources Institute with over 40 partners.
Ecofriend
http://www.ecofriend.comEcofriend is for those who do not consider environment a separate entity; rather feel themselves an integral part of it. The idea behind Ecofriend is simple: to inform and educate consumers who love to possess the latest gadgets and products available in the market and who are also concerned about the environment around them. The main focus of Ecofriend is to highlight latest green technologies, lifestyle trends and help combat global warming among a host of other environmental problems.
PiMobility
http://picycle.comPiMobility produces innovative electric bicycles and related electric propulsion technology. Their mission is to design, engineer, and manufacture the highest quality alternative transportation.
Green Technology
http://www.green-technology.orgGreen Technology is a non-profit initiative designed to inform government efforts toward sustainability, providing a forum in which government officials can communicate with those in the private sector who are developing and distributing green technologies.
