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- This cleverly designed bamboo bike charges mobile devices Thu, 22 Jan 15, 5:00amBambootec, a consortium from Yucatán, Mexico, has created a bamboo bicycle that turns pedaling into electricity for charging mobile devices. (It even has a navigation dashboard in the handlebars which measures distance and...
- Students Transform Liquid Shipping Containers into Solar Lighting Cubes for Dominican Animal Shelter Wed, 28 Aug 13, 12:31amGhetto2Garden had previously made a plea to the local community for materials to repurpose into comfortable kennels for the cats and dogs that were rescued...
- 1 Liter of Light Project Illuminates Thousands of Filipino Homes With Recycled Bottles Tue, 17 Jul 12, 2:30amWhat if something as simple as an old plastic bottle filled with water could mean the difference between light and darkness? Rudimentary as it may sound, the almost no-cost solution is uplifting the quality of life of thousands...
- MIT Students Install 10,000 Revolutionary Solar Bottle Lamps in Manila Slums Fri, 29 Jul 11, 11:29pmCurrently, millions of Filipinos live without any kind of light source at all, but a band of resourceful MIT students have begun changing that. The students found that a one liter plastic bottle filled with bleach water and...
- SODIS: PET Bottles Can Serve as Cheap Solar Water Disinfection Systems Tue, 12 Jul 11, 5:25am1.2 billion people worldwide lack access to a clean water supply, and nearly 2 million children die each year just from diarrhea (which is often water-borne). SODIS solar water disinfection systems offer a solution to these...