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OG25 Green Business Start Up Competition Finalist: Wind Products
Posted on 25. Jan, 2011 by Kristall Lutz.
Russell Tencer, CEO, of Wind Products points out that “every property in the world has a wind resource” as he presents at Opportunity Green as an OG25 Business Start Up competition finalist.
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OG25 Green Product Design Winner: Life Box
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by AHA.
The voting is in: the winner of yesterday’s innovative product design competition is The Life Box! The Life Box is essentially a forest in a box—plant it, water it, and the seeds, spores and fungi do the rest. Congratulations!
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Live Blogging at OG09: Congratulations OG25 Winner Ecovative Design!
Posted on 08. Nov, 2009 by Justine Suh.
Congratulations to Ecovative Design as the winner of the OG25 competition! Ecovative Design works with nature to replace unsustainable plastics and foams with natural composites. Using innovative new materials and radical new technologies, their products perform at least as well as current state-of-the-art synthetics, but at a lower cost to both you and the environment. The OG09 attendees were allowed to either text in or Twitter their favorite company for this “People’s Choice” award.
Competition was very tight and there were such a breadth of innovative ideas including: healthy vending machines, green roofs, green, multi-purpose compostable pizza boxes, gourmet mushroom growers, artisan sustainable seafood, green building companies, and heavy duty electric trucks. For the full list visit OG25. Very inspiring to the audience!
The OG25 open business competition recognizes the most promising start-ups committed to building a new green economy and will highlight initiatives in clean technology, product design, mobility, social innovation, water and resource conservation, food systems, community development and more.
All OG25 finalists were showcased and won a free pass to attend the Opportunity Green Business Conference 2009.
The finalists competed on stage for a chance to be named Opportunity Green’s Top Start-up of 2009.
Congratulations to Ecovative Design, as well as all of the finalists on your incredible accomplishments and efforts to lead us in the sustainability effort!
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Live Blogging OG09: OG 25 Contest Rocks the Room
Posted on 08. Nov, 2009 by Ben Upham.
The OG25 start-up contest culminated in a whirlwind on-stage presentation by 13 of the finalists at Opportunity Green this morning. The crowd was definitely along for the ride, clapping and cheering for every presenter, and the energy level in the room got pretty high as presenters raced to finish their pitch in under a minute.
Cheers erupted when the Green Box guy started tearing apart their signature pizza box, turning it into plates and a serving wedge. How many people have wrestled with trying to fit a pizza box into their recycling bin? Hello!
Kopali snacks, which came last came up with a tried-but-true method for gaining crowd support: throwing free samples into the audience. BTTR ventures talked about their tiny mushroom growing start-up, while Balqon corporation talked about their electric trucks.
Recycle Match talked about matching creators of waste with those who can use that waste, and making money in the process. Powerzoa warned us all about “vampire power” waste.
The presentations were all great, inspiring and really fun to watch. There’s no doubt that the OG 25, introduced this year, is going to be a key feature of Opportunity Green going forward.
