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IdeaBlob is the name of a monthly contest put together by a group of small business owners and entrepreneurs. Contestants submit business ideas, and the ideas with the most votes win $10,000 in cash to start up their venture. Incidentally, it’s a great place to browse through some cool green ideas.
Take Seven Rivers, for example, one of the ideas up for this month’s prize. Seven Rivers (subtitle: “Water without the waste”) is a plan to provide clean, cheap, filtered water to people who don’t have clean tap water to drink, or people who don’t like tap water, and would otherwise buy bottled. They want to build a “water vending machine” – essentially a large water filter which will dispense clean, fresh drinking water for a small price.
They envision their customers using eco-friendly, reusable cups, as well. If people started using a system like Seven Rivers instead of buying bottled water, lots of good things would happen. We would cut down on waste, because less plastic bottles would be thrown out. We’d help reduce our consumption of petroproducts. And we’d save all the energy that goes into shipping water all over the world.
Other green ideas on IdeaBlob include local food programs for schools, green design competitions and green education for coffee growers.
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written by MD, March 27, 2009
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written by Devin Griffin, March 27, 2009
As university students, we so often see people toting around reusable bottles by Sigg or Nalgene. It just so happens that these same people frequently complain that they don't like refilling at water fountains because they're dirty or unreliable. So, we thought that it would make sense to provide an option that is akin to giving consumers a Brita filter-like experience when they're away from the home or office by providing a single-serve purified water vending machine. Hope this clarifies things!
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written by Tristan, March 27, 2009
Thanks, I was really confused, and I hope you have good luck, and then go out of business.
As a graduate student who carries around a water that I refill with campus water all the time, I see the need. By I'm always asking my self WHY doesn't the university just make their water not suck. I mean if your going to provide water fountains that cool the water for you, can't they just add a filter also!!!
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written by Pau, March 28, 2009
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written by Rajiv Malholtra, March 28, 2009
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written by water_geek, March 29, 2009
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written by net97surferx, March 30, 2009
Around town were moderate sized kiosks which did reverse osmosis, charcoal filtering and ultraviolet exposure for treating water and dispensing to bottles one would bring. They took coins or dollars and put out from pints to gallons so you could choose how little or much you needed.
Would not be a huge leap to mod them to dispense 'one shot bottle' sized units also.
Can see how this might be a 'smaller' unit for office or mall use for those who are constantly guzzling from their plastic bottles though.
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written by Alex Diaz, March 30, 2009
We have combined water, super chilling technology and ice.
Regards,
Alex Diaz
Founder and Director of Research
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written by Gary Kolesar, March 04, 2010
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written by Bill Jones, July 15, 2010
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I encourage anyone who is also a fan of reducing waste to vote for Seven Rivers on IdeaBlob and help them secure the funding to widen their impact.
it takes 2 minutes and you could directly create jobs for engineering students
http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/...r-without-
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