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Category Archives: Sustainability

Anything to do with environmentally friendly practices, design or other sustainable development which improves the way we do and make things to make our planet a friendlier place.

Springwise: See-saw power for schools

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Human powered energy generators are on the rise and many different designs have been surfacing in the last year or so. This one uses an existing fun activity to produce some much needed energy.
Daniel Sheridan, a student in consumer product design, won three separate awards amounting to GBP 5,500 earlier this year for [...]

2 eco-friendly bikes from different sides of the tech divide

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The one is a slick, high tech hydrogen cell powered beauty which I would love to get my hands on and the other, a humble, down-to-earth bamboo construction which I wouldn’t mind trying out either.
Both aim to approach 21st Century transportation in an innovative yet clean way, but don’t expect these to meet each other [...]

AfriGadget » Dr. Ngalande’s Sugar & Yeast Generator

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Dr. Ngalande’s Sugar and Yeast Power Generator
Just off chatting with White Africa, A.K.A. Hash, blog master of AfriGadget.com who lives in the US. I thought I’d take another look at AfriGadget and see if I can find anything which sparks my interest.
Step onto the scene a Sugar & Yeast Powered Generator
This invention(by Dr. Cedrick [...]

My ethically focused agency idea gathers momentum

Categories: Creative Thinking, Entrepreneurial, Ideas, Sustainability, branding
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found on http://www.theethicalagency.co.uk
No this is not my business, of course not, not yet that is. I’ve come across quite a few UK based agencies of this nature in the last few years and it’s been my mission for a while to start one here in South Africa.
TEA - The Ethical Agency, is a UK based [...]

Ad Designed with no electricity, Ogilvy tackles Power Crisis

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I found this interesting story on biz-community.com

Ogilvy Cape Town’s art director Jennifer Macfarlane and copy writer Cuan Cronwright are the winners of The Times Young Creatives Competition, held 23 – 26 February 2008 at this year’s Design Indaba Expo.

A PR stunt no doubt saw creatives pitting their skills against each other in a [...]

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