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IGPN NEWSLETTER [Issue 12]
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HEADLINES
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- Documentaries Delve Into the Sushi Economy
- Stanford Brings Affordable Medical Innovation to India through
Collaborative Design
- Bike-Friendly? Check the City's Mass Transit System
- Asian Innovation Awards: Miniwiz Builds Its Green Presence, Brick by Brick
- With Tiny Cans, a New Trash Equation
- Al Gore’s Reality Show
- High food prices are here to stay - and here's why
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GREEN PURCHASING NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
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Documentaries Delve Into the Sushi Economy
We learn that in Japan, budding sushi chefs must go through a long
apprenticeship to become masters, enduring the drudgery of washing
dishes, preparing rice and cutting vegetables before they even begin
to start cutting fish. Only in the fifth year do they begin slicing
fish in earnest.
Stanford Brings Affordable Medical Innovation to India throughCollaborative Design
A bone drill, which typically cost about $300 each, are used to access
the marrow and vascular system inside bones when a patient's veins
have collapsed or are inaccessible. The Stanford India Biodesign (SIB)
team created a device that would sell for around $20, with no drop in
efficacy.
Bike-Friendly? Check the City's Mass Transit System
Felicity Barringer writes her experience as a bike commuter on the New
York Times.
Asian Innovation Awards: Miniwiz Builds Its Green Presence, Brick by Brick
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/with-tiny-cans-a-new-trash-equation/
Its walls are constructed entirely of interlocking plastic bottles.
With Tiny Cans, a New Trash Equation
Faculty, staff and administrators at Dartmouth College in New
Hampshire had their desk trash cans replaced with six-inch-tall
cartons. One year later, Dartmouth has sent 200 less tons of trash to
the landfill, and recycling is up by one third.
Al Gore’s Reality Show
Al Gore, the former vice president, Nobel Prize winner and climate
campaigner-in-chief, is opening a new global climate change activism
program called the Climate Reality Project.
High food prices are here to stay - and here's why
A typical shopping basket in Britain now costs around 6% more than it
did last year...
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