Talk about disruptive technology. Xerox unveiled a new kind of solid ink color printing technology that they claim can produce cheaper color copies while reducing the waste associated with ordering, shipping, using, and disposing of laser printing cartridges by 90 percent. Named ColorQubeTM, the technology has been incorporated into Xerox’s ColorQube 9200 series of printers. [...]
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ColorQube Printing Technology from Xerox Reduces Waste Up to 90%
May 31st, 2009 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Business, Green Products, Justin Manger 
Tags: Green Product, Green Technology 
View CommentsBBC’s One Planet Interviews Energy Secretary Stephen Chu
May 31st, 2009 Eric Wilson Mike Williams, host of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s program One Planet, interviewed United States Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu this past week. In the discussion, Secretary Chu argues that “the consequences of business as usual could be catastrophic [and that] we must change our way of thinking about consumption.” He goes on to say that [...]
Mission One Motorcycles: A Fully Electric Ride
May 30th, 2009 Eric Wilson Industrial designer Yves Behar and engineer Forrest North came together to develop the Mission One, a fully electric motorcycle that travels twice as far on a single charge as current options on the market. While it is still in the development stages, the two gave a brief introduction (shown below) to their invention at a [...]
Five Friday Facts
May 29th, 2009 Justin Manger The International Union of Railways says a high-speed train can carry eight times as many passengers as an airplane over a given distance, using the same amount of energy and emitting a quarter of the carbon dioxide for each passenger. Rail Transport and Environment Facts & Figures The Maglev from Japan holds the world record [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Japan, Justin Manger, Policy, Transportation Tags: GE, Green Technology, High Speed Rail, Trains View CommentsGreen Drinks: Not Just for Saint Patrick’s Day Anymore
May 29th, 2009 Eric Wilson For 20 years now, Green Drinks has been bringing together like-minded individuals to discuss the second green revolution. According to their website, “Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up at informal sessions.” These include “people from NGOs, academia, government and business” as part of their consortium. Staged in countries from Algeria [...]
