WiserEarth UK

The Wiser UK group aims to bring together WiserEarth members based in the UK. We aim (among other things) to further the vision of WiserEarth and Paul Hawken in helping put up a mirror to the movement, to connect and create alliances between those working towards a more just and sustainable world. We hope that this 'flocking' effect will enable us to improve ...learn more

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Created: Mar 20, 2009

Updated: Mar 20, 2010

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Updated: 29 days ago
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Problem: The problem lies in the rampant burning of the fossil fuels and its consequences. The Electric Swinger is an electric generator that generates electricity when it is anchored in the sea near the shore line, and the sea waves swing it back and forth.

Action: The Electric Swinger is a pulsating electric generator that creates electricity when the waves of the sea or a lake swing it back and forth. It helps to diminish the burning.   The generator is anchored to the sea bottom near the shore line. The electricity that it generates consists of alternating voltages and currents, the frequency of which equals the same of the waves. The generated electricity is rectified before it is used.   This is a free invention to be copied and used. It helps you...
Publisher: Kauko Loukas
Review Group: Conservation Review
Updated: 29 days ago
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Electric Brick - ElBrick
Electric Generating Mortar Brick
Problem: The problem as the majority of people think now, is the climate change. I for my part say that it is a question of a climate mixing. I mean that the climate zones of the Earth, the tropic, sub-tropic, temperate, sub-arctic and arctic, are mixing at an accelerating pace. The most important point is not if the average temperature of the global climate is rising or falling or keeping as such, but the key point is the melting of the continental glaciers that will not happen peacefully. The warm a...

Action: Electric Brick - El-Brick, My Free Invention   The El-Brick is an electric generating brick that gives a certain direct current and voltage when it is heated on  one side, and kept cool on the other side. The El-Brick takes advantage of a phenomenon called heat electricity, not the photo voltaic one. When bricks like this are connected in a parallel, as well as in a series, greater currents, voltages and powers can be gained. Even entire brick walls could be built from them to absorb the elec...
Publisher: Kauko Loukas
Updated: about 1 month ago
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BOINC
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Problem: Research cost a lot, especially when it comes to calculate some complex calculations.   BOINC is a software and a service that offer to the reaserch project (public or private) the capacity to gain time and money using a special technique called Grid Computing.   This techniques use the internet to connect thousands of computers in order to calculate complex equations, using the unused power of your processors.

Action: 1. Create an account on Gridrepublic.com 2. Download and install BOINC 3. Select the projects that you want to support 4. Let you processor do the rest of it !   It is as simple  and takes 10mn maximum !
Updated: 2 months ago
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Problem: OUR CURRENT POWER GENERATION SYSTEM USES AN UNSUSTAINABLE MODEL, THAT HAS LED MANKIND INTO THE WRONG PATH     The world needs more electricity in the next 30 years. The US will grow its capacity, but China and India who are currently under supplied, are carrying a very rapid aggressive expansion policy to generate more than they currently produce. Current supply models are centralized, generate electricity using very large plants from multiple sources of energy, both non-renewable and renewab...

Action:  A DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEM WOULD CORRECT THE PATH OF MANKIND AND ESTABLISH A MORE EQUITABLE WORLD ORDER   Having a stand alone, small electrical power generators based on Solar energy for the home, business, and light weigh industry would provide everyone, all over the world, the possibility of having modern living comforts and power tools to produce goods and services, that create well being. The small stand alone power generator would allow people in Asia, Africa, Latin America ...
Updated: 2 months ago
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Problem: The most common method used to generate electricity is by burning fossil fuels. This method not only creates a large amount of pollutants, but is also unsustainable. Current solar technology, although sustainable, is expensive and requires large amounts of electricity and silicon to manufacture due to the purity of silicon needed.   To make matters worse, silicon cells need to have a close to optimum conditions to work. That means - no shadows are being cast on the cells, it has to be a relat...

Action: Dyesol is leading the industrialisation of dye solar cell (DSC) technology, the most advanced 3rd generation solar technology. DSC has been described as the most promising advancement of solar technology since the invention of the silicon cell.   DSC has been described as 'artificial photosynthesis'. Instead of using chlorophyll, DSC uses a very thin layer of special dyes, on a very thin layer of light absorbing material to collect the energy from sunlight. This energy is transformed into ele...
Publisher: Davin
Updated: 4 months ago
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Fabricación Autogestionaria de Productos de Higiene
Pañales baratos para las comunidades de las ocupaciones de los “S
Problem: Los miembros del Centro de Cultura Social (CCS-RJ) más involucrados políticamente, ya habían constituido frentes comunitarios y activismo político avanzado, vinculados a: la formación de una biblioteca para que el público tuviera acceso, una biblioteca especializada en la temática del movimiento operario revolucionario y libertario, así como sobre el socialismo, llamada Biblioteca Social Fábio Luz (BSFL); grupos de estudio; un periódico mensual (Libera!); campañas por la concienciación políti...

Action: Producir Pañales baratos para las comunidades de las ocupaciones de los “Sin hogar” de Río de Janeiro.   Servicios Ofrecidos:Fabricación de Pañale
Updated: 7 months ago
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Problem: How to combine educational software and an operating system in an affordable package that can run on even low-end PC's.

Publisher: Michael MacKinnon
Updated: 7 months ago
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Problem: How to combine educational software and an operating system in an affordable package that can run on even low-end PC's.

Publisher: Michael MacKinnon
Updated: 8 months ago
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Evolution of Mass Transit - Develop Smart Highway Infrastructure
Sustainable Transportation on a Public/Private Model
Problem: Substantial reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be achieved by encouraging mass transit. Traditional mass transit is better suited to urban areas but less well suited to suburban and exurban areas, and builds hub and spoke rail and bus networks with either expensive fixed rights of way or labor intensive bus routes with significant investment in rolling stock. Smart highway infrastructure is a standards-based approach to technology development for universal mass transit, with t...

Action: How to do it: • Promulgate, in cooperation with industry, open standards for hi-tech companies to design vehicle guidance and collision avoidance systems • Start by deploying standardized fixed transponders along sections of Interstate highway as a test bed that private companies can use for development of such systems • Allow IP backhaul, or use of transponders in conjunction with intra-vehicle communications, provided that compliance with standards is maintained • Establish open standards f...
Publisher: Mark Singer
Updated: 8 months ago
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Sun Spaces(tm)
Applying passive solar design to balconies and patios
Problem: The Produktif SunSpaces ( Implemented at the Montreal Productive House condo project) is a prototype innovation for applying passive solar design to balconies and patios, allowing these spaces to become become 3- to 4- season winter gardens.To seize the essence of this feature, think of the housing envelope as the skin that reacts to outdoor weather, sun, temperature and humidity, or a house that expands or shrinks according to the seasons and the needs to either conserve heat (shrink) or exp...

Action: New Product Development Process:In order to develop the SunSpaces, a dedicated team was set-up to deal with this challenge as a standalone project. The object was to build a prototype specifically for the Montreal Productive House, with design principles and application methods that can be replicated and scaled for other projects.The solution was designed to rely on already existing materials. Several precedents exist from the vernacular architecture, ranging from verandas found in hot climat...
Publisher: ethiquette.ca
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