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Creative Destruction, Eco-Frivolity, and 67 Other Innovations I Saw This Week

Green is a hotbed of innovation today. But which new ideas are groundbreaking, and which are destined for the Darwinian heap? READ»

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Swirl Turns Washing Clothes Into a Game

Remember the energy-generating SOccket soccer ball we wrote about last week? Turns out other designers have similar ideas kicking around in their heads. The "Swirl", a concept washing machine from Germany's designaffairs Studio, is ...READ»

Clean '09

"I know I'll offend wet advocates, but you can't do everything with water," says Tim Maxwell, president of GreenEarth Cleaning, which licenses a liquid-silicone-based dry-cleaning technology. At the biennial World ...READ»

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MIT Students Engineer Pedal-Powered Washing Machine

A group of enterprising MIT students has come up with a novel way for developing countries to gain access to washing machines: pedal power.   MIT's pedal-powered washing machine, the product of four years of research, is made up ...READ»