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Going Green While Making Green
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Hult International Business School publishes Greenovate! which examines how companies can employ environmentally-friendly strategies while turning a profit.
Imagine a neighborhood where smart, solar-powered garbage cans signal trash collectors only when they are full and ready to be emptied, thus reducing fuel costs. Or a mass transit system where buses run on recycled cooking oil, making them cheaper to operate with reduced emissions. Or a program to create homes for the poor by converting and upgrading discarded shipping containers. Read More »
LivingECHO Brings Consumers the Greenest Products at the Best Prices
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From Ken Spector the Vice President of LivingEcho.com:
LivingECHO, LLC brings consumers the greenest products at the best prices. Comparison shopping of eco-friendly products has never been easier. Products are posted directly by green companies from across the U.S. and Canada and products are organized into a central shopping network where consumers can search for green products at the best prices.
Ed Begley, Jr ., said of our website and company recently: Read More »
Plastic Bag No Pants Takes on Hello Kitty for Eco Fame
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Hello Kitty, the ubiquitous Japanese icon, is facing some competition from a plastic bag.
Charles Ward, an English transplant in Japan, calls it Fukuro-Chan, and it’s much more lovable than you might imagine.
The Ward-created character looks like a colorless, pantless SpongeBob, and tells kids about ways to waste less, as in not using plastic bags, reusing, recycling and the like.
I think. It’s all in Japanese, and my Japanese is rusty, as in I-don’t-speak-a-word.
The character was reportedly inspired by all the plastic bag waste that Ward saw in Japan. Did he have to go that far to find it?
The character has appeared in comic strips and films, like this one.
The song here sounds like a Japanese version of “La Cucaracha.” The cockroach to crush is unnecessary waste from plastic bags and other disposable items, including wooden chopsticks. Fukuro-chan means “plastic bag.”
Any kid, anywhere is bound to get the message. It’s almost better that the words are lost on English speakers. “Fun” is one English word shown in the video. Climate change also is shown to melt plastic bags.
Do you get it? Let us know in the comments below. Maybe Fukuro-chan is too cute for his own good?
