Green

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Sustainable Fashion

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Sustainable Fashion hits the catwalks in Copenhagen Denmark. Designers show fashions made from post-consumer content. Trashy? Hardly. According to the design student Karin Eggert, people have to get used to materials made from recycled things and the word sustainability in fashion. She was one of the participants in the Innovating sustainable Fashion Show where design students from Denmark were competing on their ability to combine corporate social responsibility and fashion in an innovative design. Green is the new black!

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Copenhagen: Bike City

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A look at Copenhagen and how dominant bikes are as a primary mode of transportation.

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Truck 2020

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A report on the Truck 2020 initiative to bring hybrid trucks online and onto our roads.

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Google Earth Hero: Project Kaisei

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Google Earth helps the researchers of Project Kaisei track and clean up garbage in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair

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Now considered the world’s largest electronics fair, the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) for this year included more than 4,400 booths and more than 2,800 exhibitors from 25 countries and regions. Together with the concurrent electronicAsia 2009 fair, the events have drawn more than 3,400 exhibitors and well over 5,000 booths at the newly expanded Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Among the latest innovations on offer, are an increasing number of products which reflect growing environmental awareness and a boom in energy-saving technology. Some really cool, stylish new gadgets and technology are featured at this show and in this video.

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Solar-powered Hybrid Ferry

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Hong Kong waters will soon be home to four new solar-powered hybrid ferries being built by a local shipyard using a design and expertise provided by an Australian company called Solar Sailor. The vessels are being purchased by the Hong Kong Jockey Club as part of a HK$350 million (US$45 million) drive to make the city more environmentally conscious, but are also seen as a way to help the world chart a course toward a future where green technology makes good business sense. And they are very stylish, futuristic, and high-tech cool!

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SMART GRID TECHNOLOGY EXPLAINED

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IBM video that explains the fundamentals of Smart Grid technology and how it will save energy by increasing efficiency of the energy grid. Energy consumers can expect to see significant cost savings by the deployment of Smart Grid technology.

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