Ideas and even More ideas

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Ideas and even More ideas

Because we get inspired by ideas of others, here's the latest from Springwise:

It's time for your weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas! The latest Springwise newsletter is
now online. Here's a quick run-down of the promising new businesses featured this week:

Fashion brand launches its own secondhand store
Retail / Fashion & beauty

Swedish fashion label Filippa K is promoting a longer life for its
products by letting customers sell them in its very own secondhand
store, which just opened in Stockholm.

Bicycle trailers on loan at Danish IKEA
Transportation / Retail / Eco & sustainability

Shoppers at IKEA furniture stores in Denmark now have a new option
for bringing their large, bulky purchases home: a fleet of Velorbis
bikes with trailers that are available for loan at (virtually) no charge.

Prepaid card locks in gas prices for US drivers
Automotive / Financial services

A new service from MyGallons.com lets consumers prepurchase gas
and lock in today's gas prices for the future, betting that today's high
prices won't look so steep in a few years.

Green school with an entrepreneurial bent in Bali
Education / Eco & sustainability

There are plenty of schools out there with green practices among
their goals, but a new school opening this fall in Bali will be
entrepreneurially green from top to bottom.

French ride-sharing for package transport
Transportation

We've written about ride-sharing sites that help match up people in
need of a ride with drivers heading in the same direction. Now Colis-
Voiturage is bringing a similar service to the transport of packages.

Used Danish bikes help African poor
Transportation / Non-profit & social cause

A new initiative from Copenhagen-based Baisikeli aims to reclaim
discarded bicycles to help the disadvantaged both in Africa and at
home.

Being spaces for seniors in Chicago
Lifestyle & leisure

We've written about supermarkets, wellness stores and driving
services for seniors, but it wasn't until recently that we came across
a chain of cafés for senior citizens.

Launched in the UK: online auction for experiences
Lifestyle & leisure

Online auctions for goods are plentiful, thanks to eBay and all the
others it has inspired. It was only a matter of time before experiences
got an auction of their very own.

Ad agency launches green mailing service
Marketing & advertising / Eco & sustainability

A few weeks ago we wrote about Pubeco, a French effort to tame
mass-mailing clutter, and now another French initiative aims to make
those mailings greener to begin with.

Dance-powered eco nightclub opens in London
Entertainment / Eco & sustainability

Dance energy has popped up again in the form of an eco nightclub
that's slated to open in London tomorrow, featuring a dance floor that
captures enough energy to supply 60% of the club's power needs.

More street clean-vertising
Marketing & advertising

Much like UK-based Street Advertising Services, which we wrote about
last year, GreenGraffiti creates advertising on dirty city streets and
walls using the clean, green power of plain water.