The future of food includes projects such as The Green Bronx Machine, located in an area where over 36% of children live in food insecure homes. It has generated over 60,000 pounds of vegetables through a vertical farm.
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Ripcord is a robotics digitization startup that can help offices go paperless by scanning paper records at scale and making the data searchable. A few data points about Ripcord:
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Windy City Harvest built a 7,300 square foot greenhouse where seasonal veggies grow year round. A 50,000-gallon aquaponics system produces 2,500 heads of lettuce every week, year-round, and 14,000 pounds of tilapia each year.
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The Wynd Plus is a portable air purifier that creates a bubble of clean air around you by removing dust, allergens, smoke, germs, and particulate pollution from your personal space. It’s ideal for travel since it’s the size of a water bottle and can easily monitor the environment in a hotel room and more.
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Phyn Plus tracks water consumption and more. Homeowners can see how much water their family uses every day and even buy the fixture to help cut back on those long showers. In addition to announcing a partnership with the City of Santa Fe, Phyn was also recently recognized by the Red Dot Awards for product design. It has auto shutoff in the case of a catastrophic leak, it offers real-time alerts when leaks are detected, and it allows for daily diagnostic plumbing checks. It also works in conjunction with Amazon Alexa.
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The Aquasana Bluetooth-enabled Clean Water Machine is a hybrid pitcher filter and replaces over 2,400 plastic bottles of water with each filter cartridge. It’s NSF Certified to remove 77 contaminants, including lead and other heavy metals, PFOA/PFOS, pharmaceuticals, herbicides, and pesticides, etc.
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Smart city startup TransitScreen has a new mobile app, CityMotion, to curate eco-friendly transit in more than 40 cities around the globe. It’s ideal for anyone looking for the closest scooter, rideshare info, or the time of the next train or bus.
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Earth Day means enjoying the great outdoors. Take your music with you via the Bullfrog BF100. It is completely waterproof and floatable. You can take it in the ocean, on a kayak, or underneath a waterfall. Just like the larger models, it’s fully protected from rain, snow, dust, and dirt, but with an impressive IP67 rating.
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Bosch eBike Systems allow riders to travel without using any fossil fuels. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the CO2 emissions of a car are around 40 times higher than those of a bicycle with a battery-powered motor. The pedal assist motor and battery technology that eBikes are equipped with make swapping the car for a bike easy, environmentally friendly, and efficient. There are several eBikes in the Bosch collection, including this new Gazelle T10 Speed City Zen version. It zips at up to 28mph and features the new hidden eBike battery, PowerTube.
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HiberSense is a smart climate control system for homes or small offices that uses predictive analytics to maximize comfort and energy savings.
A central hub collects temperature, humidity, occupancy, and air-quality data from sensors throughout the space; the system learns to proactively adjust to align with occupants’ preferences.
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Casio’s lineup of LampFree projectors includes the new Superior Series. The lamps use Casio’s R-Hybrid Light Source technology for eco-friendly data projection for a lower cost than traditional lamp-based projectors. The projectors are mercury free as well as being lamp free, so they reduce overall environmental concerns. The projectors offer a 1.7X zoom lens and full WUXGA HD resolution.
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The Qnovo battery management software platform can add an additional year of health/longevity to lithium-ion batteries (or products that rely on them like smartphones, electronic vehicles, airpots, etc.). The goal is to reduce the amount of lithium-ion batteries in our landfills.
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\tThe Epson Expression ET-2750 EcoTank printer has cartridge-free printing and includes up to two years of ink in the box, equivalent to about 30 ink cartridge sets. It also offers wireless printing, auto 2-sided printing to reduce paper use by up to 50%, and auto-stop ink bottles that are keyed for easy filling of each color.
Teena Maddox is a VP at Brodeur Partners. She is a former Associate Managing Editor at TechRepublic. Teena's lifelong journalism career has included writing on staff for publications including People magazine, W magazine and Women's Wear Daily.
