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Clean Water Startups to Watch in 2012

Dec 28

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“Heather Clancy of ZDNet has put together a great list of the top start-ups in clean water technology to pay attention to in the upcoming year.

Clancy writes, “After sifting through a number of resources, I’ve come up with this list of start-up or early stage companies that I’ll be watching as closely as possible. All of the companies on this particular to-watch list are focused on technologies for treating wastewater, and all of them have been part of various cleantech innovation competitions this fall.”

The list includes companies specializing in wastewater treatment, water purification, graywater recycling, to name a few. Mentioned are aquaMost, which raised $3 million in a second round of venture capital; Emefcy, which rounded up $10 million in venture funding; and Pasteurization Technology Group, which not only disinfects wastewater but also creates renewable energy in the process.”

Clean Water Startups to Watch in 2012 via Heather Clancy – ZDNet/Jaymi Heimbuch – Treehugger

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Mark Ruffalo wants you to stand up against hydrofracking

Jun 9

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“Actor Mark Ruffalo, who lives in a rural New York town on the Delaware River with his family, is not one of those celebrities who parachutes into a random political cause and starts ignorantly pontificating about solutions. He has been actively involved with efforts to keep potentially disastrous hydrofracking practices out of New York State for three years, and he knows his stuff. He’s even co-founded his own initiative on water quality, Water Defense.

Now Ruffalo has banded together with some other famous friends, including Ethan Hawke and Zoe Saldana, to make a new video, “I Love My New York Water,” that he hopes will encourage people to get involved in the battle to keep New York’s water safe from the effects of hydrofracking. Fracking, in case you don’t know, is a controversial natural gas extraction process that has the potential to cause severe environmental damage (remember the flaming faucets in Gasland?). “It is a new technology, ” Ruffalo told me. “The industry is using us as guinea pigs. The more we learn about it, the uglier it looks.”

Mark Ruffalo wants you to stand up against hydrofracking via Sarah Goodyear – Grist

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New York Gives Homeowners Free Rain Barrels

Apr 27

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“New York City’s Department of Environment Protection (DEP) is giving away 55-gallon rain barrels to homeowners – 1,000 barrels this year. The program began in spring 2008 when the DEP distributed 250 barrels to homeowners in Queens. In 2009, 750 barrels were distributed to homeowners. The program was initiated by the Jamaica Bay Watershed Protection Plan. On July 20, 2005 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a City Council bill which required the DEP to create a protection plan for the Jamaica Bay watershed.”

New York Gives Homeowners Free Rain Barrels via Gina-Marie Cheeseman – Triple Pundit

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Salvare La Vita creates local, eco-friendly packaging; seeks to provide worldwide access to drinking water

Feb 16

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San Ramon, CA — February 11, 2011 The founders of Salvare La Vita water, meaning “to save lives” in Italian, began with a simple idea: What if an eco-friendly bottled water company in the U.S. could provide clean drinking water for those in need (nearly a billion people) around the world?

They enacted a progressive business plan that would provide 20 years of access to clean drinking water for one person in need per every 31 bottles of water sold. Founder Shakira Niazi wants her organization to be different then other bottled water companies that base their marketing claims in charitable giving.  Visitors to the Salvare La Vita website can Join Our Movement, with the goal to build 10 water wells –supporting 1,500 families in small villages in countries in which over 50% of the population lacks access to clean water (according to UNICEF’S 2010 Report on Water Issues). Salvare La Vita will provide documentation on each sponsored water project using location GPS, pictures, video and information from NGO contacts. The mission for this small, but rapidly growing company is to build water wells in every continent. The first project will take place in Sharberghan, Afghanistan.

Niazi states “while we’re out trying to save the world, it can’t be at the cost of Mother Nature.”  Salvare La Vita strives to minimize its own environmental impact by creating a bottle that is 100% biodegradable as well as recyclable.  The bottles dissolve easily, break down safely and relatively quickly, by biological means, into natural raw materials. SLV bottles take a few years instead of thousands of years to decompose.  SLV Water’s bottles can also be mixed into the recycling stream with any other plastic.  Most other plant-based products can only be recycled within their own grade of plastic.

The most important aspect of SLV Water is the water itself. SLV’s great tasting, premium spring water is harvested locally rather than imorted from overseas, a costly and environmentally damaging process. From the product to the packaging, this company is 100% made in the USA.

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