This document highlights 7 intersectional ideas that promote sustainability on Earth. It describes inventions like a cardboard bike made from recycled materials, a shipping container farm that grows crops using 90% less water, and an artificial reef system made of snap-together ceramic modules that helps restore damaged coral reefs. Other ideas include an affordable passive house made of insulated blocks, an atomizing showerhead that cuts water usage by 70%, and a large smog-free tower that cleans polluted air and turns the collected smog into fine jewelry. The document emphasizes that the intersection is where world-changing sustainable ideas are discovered.

1. The INTERSECTION is
the place where world-changing
ideas are discovered.
INTERSECTIONAL IDEAS
FOR A GREENER EARTH
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2. PAPER
TRANSPORTATION

3. The
Cardboard
Bike
#1

4. Israeli inventor
Izhar Gafni
created a bike
made entirely of
reinforced
cardboard.
Made from
recycled
materials, it
is green in
both
production
and use.

5. Perhaps the most sustainable aspect of
the cardboard bike is that its production
costs come out to approximately
$9

6. SHIPPING
CONTAINERS
Carrots

7. THE
CROPBOX
A FARM IN A
SHIPPING
CONTAINER
#2

8. Combining vertical farming with
hydroponic growing technology,
the Cropbox can grow an acre’s
worth of crops in just 30 square
meters.
It uses 90% less water use than
conventional and greenhouse
cultivation, and 80% less
fertilizer than conventional
cultivation.

9. L E G O
CORAL REEFS

10. Modular
Structure
ARTIFICIAL
REEF
(M.A.R.S)
#3

11. Locking and clamping
mechanisms on the arms of
each MARS unit allow them to
snap together easily,
like LEGOs.
MARS is a system of porous
ceramic modules that clamp
together to form structures
which mimic the calcium
skeletons of dead coral.
The system is used to
restore coral reefs damaged
by water pollution.

12. "Coral reefs are some of the most bio-diverse and uniquely
fragile ecosystems on the planet.What may have taken 100
years to restore naturally can be reduced to an estimated
eight to 15years using the MARS system."
-Alex Goad,
Inventor of the
MARS system

14. The
AMAGER
RESOURCE
CENTRE
#4

16. I K E A
Canada
Goose

17. POP-UP
HOUSE
The
The Affordable Passive House
#5

18. TAKING IKEA TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Pop-Up houses are compact
living spaces assembled by
fitting together insulated blocks
separated by wooden boards.
The houses are held together
entirely by screws and
requires minimal tools.
The benefits of these houses are that
they are easy to build, low cost,
recyclable, and passive.

19. W h a t i s a P A S S I V E H O U S E ?
Passive houses are called so because their energy consumption per
square meter is extremely low.The heating requirement does not
exceed 15kWh/m²/year.

20. Showers
Spray Paint

21. Showerhead
Future
of the
#6

22. The Nebia showerhead is
designed to get more
water onto your body
while reducing the actual
amount you're using.

23. Using atomization technology,
the showerhead increases
surface area of shower water
by a factor of 10, while cutting
water usage by a whopping
70%

24. SMOG
Fine
Jewelry

25. SMOG-FREE
TOWER
#7 The

26. The tower,
designed by
Dutch innovator
Daan Roosegaarde,
is the largest
air purifier
in the world.
When fully implemented,
the upcoming project will
create smog free air zones
in Earth's largest and
most polluted cities.

27. The coolest part? The compressed smog that gets
collected by the tower then gets turned into fine jewelry.

28. Anyone can step in...
it could be you.
S T E P P I N G I N T O T H E I N T E R S E C T I O N
R E P R E S E N T S O U R B E S T C H A N C E T O
C R E A T E M E A N I N G F U L ,
W O R L D -C H A N G I N G D I S C O V E R I E S .