This really can't be summarized easily. Michelle is a Biomedical engineer at U.C. Irvine. Given a problem with microfluidics, she thought back to her childhood and found a very powerful solution that no one had considered.

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' ...the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000--money that wasn't immediately available. "I'm a very impatient person," says Khine, now an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. "I wanted to figure out how I could set things up really quickly."

Racking her brain for a quick-and-dirty way to make microfluidic devices, Khine remembered her favorite childhood toy: Shrinky Dinks, large sheets of thin plastic that can be colored with paint or ink and then shrunk in a hot oven. "I thought if I could print out the [designs] at a certain resolution and then make them shrink, I could make channels the right size for micro­fluidics," she says.'

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Protecting the environment can be as simple as repairing an item instead of replacing it. Consider this, if you add 50% more useful life to an item, you have reduced the impact of that item by 33%! To go a step further, you have saved money too. The amount of energy and CO2 released from production to delivery of goods is huge, all of these impacts are reduced when we repair items.

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I remember about 16 years ago, I was working at Egghead Software. We had these really neat packaging peanuts that the company started using, rice puffs. These were a lot like synthetic peanuts but dissolved in water. I have not seen those since.

Now we are looking at a bacteria and sugar based grow to fit packaging. The idea is similar, the product goes right back to nature when you are done with it.

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When I first saw the image above, I thought "oh nice another clean hot rod at a car show." My next thought was "why is it on an environmentally focused website?" As I looked closer, I realized that is an electric vehicle battery pack where the engine normally sits!

This is not something that will inspire a tidal wave of hot rod conversions. The parts and process are still too costly. However, this is a start.

The electric motor apparently generates about 660 foot pounds of torque at about 300 horsepower! Electric motors are amazing when it comes to torque. The problem is the price, this motor cost around $40,000 and the charger is several thousand dollars as well. Not to mention, every corner gas station does not serve electricity at the pump.

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