Environment +
Energy

What if we could clean up the overwhelming trash problem and provide a new power source? While I am by no means qualified in the engineering necessary, I read about a facility in Germany that burned trash to not only solve the trash problem, but…

We waste a lot.Why not take some of that waste and turn it into true green fuel. Fuel for the environment.Vermicasting ( Worm composting ) is a tried and tested approach to composting. The benefits are two fold. Dispose of food wastes while giving…

My idea is to create one park for every 50-100 sq. miles. This would help the environment, and reduce our carbon emissions.

To create global environmental awareness for children and adults to help make the world a cleaner, greener place.

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Everytime we shop, we might end up with 3-4 plastic bag, or paper bags. Help reduce carbon footprint by using a Reusable Cloth Bag or BigShopper Bags.

Develop a $10M prize program (The O (Ocean) Prize) to fund the best solution for eliminating the floating debris pile in the Pacific Ocean. {The best solution would: – eliminate waste faster than it accumulates – generates a…

Find a way to allow home/land owners (large and small) to calculate the offset of the trees on their property, then assist them in selling these offsets to companies or other interested parties. While the monetary sum received would be extremely…

Install Photovoltaic cells on Cisco rooftops to help offset the cost of powering datacenters. Relocate datacenters to areas with high solar availability and start to run the datacenters soley off PV power.

Buildings ( of all kinds – home/work/school etc.) must be designed such that there is no or almost minimal need to turn on lights during the day. All efforts should be made to reuse the natural light.

When I leave the office at the end of the day the majority of computer monitors in the building are left on. This wastes resources and money and hurts the environment. In one minute you can make a difference! Jus right click on your…

Just like the green belts in Ottawa and Toronto as well as Central Park in New York. Large parks and protected environmental areas are very celebrated as a place to relax and stay healty. So find a place in your city and try to get the city to buy…

I think it is important to protect our environment. There should be more environment friendly technology, cars and so on.

my idea is to have a solar Cell phone with very high sensitive Solar cells that can work indoor as well as outdoor, and it should store part of the energy for use when the light is not enough. also this mobile can be equipped with rechargeable…

I think energy would be more efficient and environment would be cleaner if the government provides subsidy to many eco-friendly actions, so that people will have more motivation to do these things. Those might include buying a solar panel, buying a…

Though most of the garbage generated at home is bio-degradable, they are dumped into black plastic bags commonly known as – garbage bags. My idea is to manufacture garbage bags from old newspapers by pasting together 4 sheets of paper using…

i feel that awareness about rain water harvesting as well an increase in its implementation should be promoted as this will not only help in solving the water crisis in Delhi but also lead to conservation of the environment.

Recycle cans everywhere, in every street, in every country, in every place

We all know that walking to the grocery store is good for health and good for the environment, but walking along the often time deserted, barren streets makes walking unplesant. So why not enourage a culture of walking by setting up benchs,…

If we can replace every normal bulb with energy efficient CFLs, we can cut down energy consumption in at least by half and would be able to save billions of $$ that we can use for some other purpose. Changing these normal bulb with energy…

Solar power can be cheaper in the long run, its environmentally friendly, its saves a lot of the Earth’s natural resources, and it makes Earth smile

Have everyone give a certain amount of money to start putting phoytovolteic on houses and then as more people get it they can pay other people and then those people can repay and help someone else until the whole town is GREEN

We live in the 21 century.Everyone have a car or two.In every country exists many nuclear power stations,factories and others industrial enterprises. They all pollute our environment. also in our countries exists a small amount of wind power…

this is idea is plain and simple – planting a tree in every house will lead to growing up of more trees and will substitute those which are being cut for our greed. there are millions of houses and imagine what planting up millions of trees…