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Shipping Pallets, and other Clean Technologies

by: Joel Makower

Last week’s Cleantech Venture Forum in San Francisco was, like the several that preceded it over the past few years, a celebration of the growing clean-tech industry. But each year, the crowds get bigger, the presenting companies get more sophisticated, and the insider talk gets more self-assured.

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Comments (0) • Posted on on 27 March, 2005 - 16:05
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Project FOX - A Volkswagen Experience

by: Sebastian Campion

In collaboration with MTV, Volkswagen is about to launch a 3 week-long lifestyle event in Copenhagen to promote the newest and youngest member of its family - the VW Fox.

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Comments (2) • Posted on on 17 March, 2005 - 12:44
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Open (Source) Design

by: Sebastian Campion

Israeli product designer Ronen Kadushin has created a product line called "Open Design', which aims to close the creative gap between product design and other fields, such as music, graphic design, animation and photography that are traditionally more connected to political, social and economic flows and issues.

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Comments (0) • Posted on on 15 March, 2005 - 12:47
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Anti Bad-Media-Moral Campaign

by: Sebastian Campion

Last year the Swedish Social Ministry launched a web, print and video campaign called Flicka (girl) that attacks the moral of mass media.

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Under pressure by the media's beauty ideals, and the aim of the public campaign is to educate young girls about the techniques and effects of advertising and thus help them to think critically.

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Comments (0) • Posted on on 10 March, 2005 - 14:44
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IKEA world

by: Sebastian Campion

Swedish furniture retailer IKEA and construction-firm Skanska has teamed up and launched a series of attractive apartment buildings throughout Scandinavia.

The BoKlok (literally: LiveSmart) apartments have been specifically developed for average-income families and are highly flexible and easy to decorate.

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Comments (0) • Posted on on 10 March, 2005 - 12:52
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Smart Library

by: Sebastian Campion

A Danish Library has tagged its entire media collection (+300.000) with RIFD stickers in place of barcodes.

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Comments (0) • Posted on on 9 March, 2005 - 14:51
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Smart Wearables and Health

by: Sebastian Campion

An article on Businessweek.com tells about the latest generation of smart wearable garments, specifically in relation to health-related applications.

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Comments (0) • Posted on on 9 March, 2005 - 13:42
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