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Vozeeme - eBay for freight

Vozeeme is eBay for the freight industry. On Vozeeme.com manufacturers and truckers can post and book truck loads through a web-based interface. The startup provides cost savings and price transparency for small manufacturers who today have trouble shipping their products in a cost-effective and reliable fashion and pay significant fees to brokers.
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Life Box: Seed-Sprouting Cardboard Box

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Instead of shipping something in plain old cardboard, you can now ship it in a box with embedded seeds. When you're done, toss the box into your garden?
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Solar sails on cargo ships, this appears to be real

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"Late last month, the Australian Solar Sailor company announced they’d signed a deal with China's biggest shipping line, COSCO, to fit some of their jumbo jet sized solar-powered sails to a tanker and bulk carrier...
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Homes constructed from shipping containers,now they're mainstream

They started as an artistic experiment, now they're actually building them. "Each year, millions of shipping containers arrive on American shores. Because it's so expensive for empty containers to make a return trip across the ocean, DeMaria estimates that up to half never make it back. Some industry experts say the number of containers available for reuse hovers around 100,000, but can reach 700,000...
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