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Edison awards highlight innovation across American industry titans

Co-authored by: Lauryn Schroeder, Medill News Service It starts with something simple. For 12-year-old Quincy Lyons, it started with the first bite of an orange. An orange that he believed.

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Amplified Wind Solutions Takes Top Cleantech Award

You could say that Amplified Wind Solutions CEO Niki Zmij has had a pretty good year. After taking second place in the student business idea competition at the 2012 Northeast.

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Greenstart Cleantech Accelerator Announces Latest Class

This week Greenstart, an accelerator focusing on cleantech projects, has announced its latest class of startups.

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IBM’s CityForward Unites Urbanites To Tackle City Issues

Urbanist and author of the iconic city commentary The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs once said, “Design is people.” This philosophy of collaborative planning towards common goals resonates with IBM’s laterst philanthropic project, CityForward.com.

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NowMaid: Do You Trust The Person Who Cleans Your House?

NowMaid, a service to find, rate and hire domestic cleaners, is about trust, says founder Ayo Omojola.

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Could This Fuel Cell Keep Your Phone Charged For Weeks?

An MA developer says so — that that it’s been approved for in-flight use.

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Vertical Urban Farm’s Technology Makes Food Out of Waste

Waste equals food in John Edel’s vernacular. Edel is the founder of “The Plant,” an old meatpacking facility that will grow food sustainably while producing zero net waste.

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Tidal Turbines Lead The Future Of Green Energy In Europe

We’ve seen green energy harnessed from the wind with towering turbines and the ocean through bouncing buoys, but what about an underwater turbine that harnesses tidal power? For almost a decade engineers at Andritz Hydro have been developing a unique turbine that harvests energy from powerful tidal currents on the ocean floor.

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Google-Backed Wind Power Venture Approved By Department Of The Interior

The Atlantic Wind Connection is a proposed transmission backbone that would run along 250 miles of coast from New Jersey to Virginia.

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From Airbnb to Zaarly: A Short History of Collaborative Consumption Startups

I was born in the 1980’s. It was the decade in which Gordon Gekko proclaimed, “greed is good!”, teens were mallrats, and shoulder pads helped ring in the decade of the.

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