Laura Anthony - California, United States

Problem:
Landfilling food and paper is heating our planet

Solution:
Get Cool

The quickest and easiest way to immediately reduce your community’s greenhouse gas emissions.

COOL 2012 Campaign: While we work toward longer-term, challenging solutions like shutting down coal-fir... [read more]

Andrew Fynn

We have lost vast amounts of carbon from the world's soils over the last 200 years.

Soil carbon forms over 50% of soil organic matter, which is the difference between life and death (the difference between fertile dark brown soil and eroded, degraded hardpan.)

Every ton of soil carbon removes 3.... [read more]

Nobuaki Matsuzaki

Nobuaki Matsuzaki
Tokyo, Japan

I think that the New Economy System based upon reusable energies and the Old Economy System based upon fossil oil & gas energies are now competing in every nation in the world. Current Global economic crisis is just reflecting the declining Old Economy System as ... [read more]

Gregory Wright - United States

'PVARKING LOTS':
PVs INSTEAD OF VOCs!

Let's cover many square miles of car-baking parking lots with solar electricity-generating photovoltaic (PV) canopies, and turn these volatile organic compound-outgassing fields of cars into "PVarking lots"! These solar-electric canopies could charge the hop... [read more]

Bella Hunt

Governments and housing developers must make urban sprawl and the waste from the construction of new home or commercial building a top priority to become more sustainable and save resources and cut down on waste.

Anthony Bateman

Dig a hole - deep (> 4 km). That is withing the technological capabilities of oil drilling technology now. At this depth the temperature is greater than 100 C and water will boil.
Lower into the hole efficient energy capturing units (steam turbines maybe). Pump water down into the hole and use the stea... [read more]

Chris Forman - United Kingdom

How do we align economy and ecology?

Imagine a company that makes a product and a company that recycles that product. If they define their materials and processes appropriately, then maybe the material can be used many times.

In much the same way the lego kit I had when I was a child will still ... [read more]

Bob Pollak - Massachusetts, United States

Last summer I was interviewed by a local radio station while driving my vehicle. The interview allowed me to demonstrate for a reporter from public radio affiliate WFCR various technique(s) for improving mileage that I had independently developed. I drive a Dodge 2500 Ram Pickup. My average miles per gallon pr... [read more]

Sid Abma - United States

Natural gas is our "clean burning" fuel, but so much of it is being wasted and is blown up these industrial and commercial chimney's as HOT exhaust.
Natural gas is our only fuel source that can be consumed to over 90% energy efficiency. With the technology of "condensing flue gas heat recovery" the heat ... [read more]

Cathy Orlando - Ontario, Canada

We cook with passive solar ovens year round and we live in Northern Ontario.

We use our Sunoven to cook beans, soups, roasts, stews and almost anything you would cook in slow cooker.

It can heat to over 300 degrees Celcius in minus 30 degree Celius weather when the sun is shining (see picture).<... [read more]

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