3 Bio-Friendly Inventions Designed to Save Lives

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1) Liquid Granite: Liquid Granite, touted as the “Building Material of the Future“, is a relatively new alternative to standard concrete in building construction.

Currently the cement industry is responsible for about 5% of the world’s carbon emissions. Liquid Granite is a bio-friendly alternative as it is made using 30-70% recycled materials and thus has a much lower footprint than traditional concrete .

Some of its key features are that it is very versatile as a substance, so it is easier to build with and it is extremely fire-resistant (to temperatures in excess of 1100 degrees Celsius). Additionally, because of its extreme fire-resistance, it can be used in buildings where fire safety is key. It could be the life-saving difference in case of emergency.
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2) Embrace Infant Warmer: Millions of premature babies die every year due to lack of something most U.S. hospital consider standard equipment, an incubator. My daughter was born premature and was in an incubator for the first 4 days of her life, so I have personal experience with the usefulness of incubators.

But, incubators require electricity and can cost up to $20,000 each to purchase. In many places around the world, neither electricity nor access to hospitals or those kinds of funds are available to be able to provide the warmth a pre-mature baby requires. But does that mean nothing can be done? No.

This bio-friendly invention takes away the need for electricity and takes away the requirement of thousands of dollars, leaving in their place a simple, safe, reusable and life-saving invention. Broad release of this product is expected in 2010, with an estimated asking price of just $25.

Video clip: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/752

3) LIFESAVER®: Every year millions of people die from water-related diseases. Over 84% of those deaths are children (0-14). Since less than 1% of the world’s fresh water is readily accessible for us to use, we need a clean water solution. One company has designed that solution – LIFESAVERsystems.

LIFESAVERsystems originally designed the LIFESAVER® Bottle as a much needed solution for individuals who had become victims of natural disasters. Through their distinct technology, the Lifesaver bottles allowed people to have immediate access to fresh, safe, drinkable water under almost any circumstances.

Since then, LIFESAVERsystems has designed the LIFESAVER® Hydrocarry UF (the world’s first ultra filtration hydration pack for soldiers to use), the LIFESAVER® bottle citi™ (the world’s first ultra filtration water bottle to be installed in a car) and the LIFESAVER® jerrycan (the 5-gallon container that can process up to 20,000 liters of water).
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One jerrycan can filter enough clean water for a family of 4 for up to 5 years. And 50 jerrycans is the equivalent of 1 million liters of bottled water (without the plastic bottles requiring recycling).


http://biofriendly.com/blog/biofriendly/bio-friendly-inventions-designed-to-save-lives/

Some good news.

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2. We need to get those cans to Haiti....fast as we can...K & R....

Palistine sure could use them too along with a lot of third world countries.
hmmm that would sure be a good company to buy stock in.

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3. They are working with

'Operation Blessing' to distribute them in Haiti.

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4. I checked out 'Operation Blessing'.

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Sadly there are a number of organizations like Operation Blessing whose leadership demonize the people claim to serve. And they will be quite happy to take your donation in support of humanitarian relief for Haiti. Operation Blessing has been a recipient of U.S. faith-based funding and was also listed as a FEMA charity during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/1/14/224614/769/Front_Page/Pat_Robertson_Not_Alone_in_Demonizing_Haiti

This is a very long and informative article about what religious groups are doing in Haiti. It is scary.