Category Archives: Innovation and Creativity

Sustainable Innovation

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YERT – Your Environmental Road Trip, is a film that entailed a year long road trip in the U.S. showing  unique and innovate ways to approach environmental sustainability. The film features some incredible innovations.  Check out this short preview of some of the innovations.

One of the more practical and large scale ideas is the Solar Roadways project that is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. Check out this short four minute video on their idea to increase solar energy and guarantee power to outlying areas in our country.

Recycled Island: An Innovative Way to Deal with Waste

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An interesting blog post on Discovery News talks about the massive Garbage Patch located in the Pacific ocean that could be turned into an ‘recycled island’. Designed by Whim Architecture, the entire island would be floating and be made from all the plastic waste that is currently in the ocean.  These innovative ideas to how to deal with the increasing waste stream is a start in the right direction. Check out their website, Recycled Island, that gives more details to the idea and concept.