A startup in the UK is providing faster and cheaper home building options.

Building of homes are usually expensive and entails expertise from plumbing to lighting to decoration,which drags on for a while especially if you are walking within a budget. The type of house also determine the time frame and monetary allocation. Many businesses are going green,and so has the building companies,providing housing options with green technology and recycling techniques to conserve the environment and cheap housing options. Thinking of buying land in choice areas for construction? contact us. A startup in the UK ,The Open Building Institute (OBI) wants to reduce the time required to build a home and also expertise required.OBI wants to develop an open-source house-building framework as a way of providing an alternative to current housing models, and solve the problem of housing shortages. OBI's toolkit includes every part of building a home, such as how to get power and water, not just how to erect the structure itself. The organisation said the plans are suitable for either a full house, or just a greenhouse, and more modules can be added as required, allowing your home to grow along with your family and other requirements. See

Animal shelter, Pokemon Go player and exercising dogs.

Pokemon go players are out on the streets hunting for pokemon,while they enjoy the game they are also keeping fit. The routine of walking around homes parks and animal reserves is a form of exercise and the laser-sharp focus needed to squash the creatures is also enhanced by this exercise. Pet owners have started taking their pets for the hunt as a form of exercise,,many dogs are enjoying the pokemon hunt.Animal shelters are cashing in on the pokemon game by soliciting for players to come in and take the dogs up for adoption on the pokemon hunt so they will get enough exercise. An animal shelter in Juneau is calling on players of the smartphone game Pokemon Go to stop by and take a dog with them on their hunt for creatures around the city.The Juneau Empire reports Gastineau Humane Society employees say it's a good way for people to collect Pokemon while allowing the dogs to get exercise. The shelter put out a call for volunteer Pokemon Go dog walkers in a Facebook post last week, but has yet to see any come in to walk a dog. The six dogs that are up for adoption at the shelter are available for a walk Monday through Saturday. The outing can be a short walk near the shelter or people can venture out on a nearby trail. See how

‘Pokémon Go’ player saves dog in need of veterinary attention.

An unexpected, real-life adventure unfolded for two women playing the popular new mobile game Pokémon Go. While waiting for a pizza they’d ordered to be delivered, Kaitlin Kouts and Tiffany Revay took out their phones and set about their Lufkin, Texas, neighborhood searching for an elusive Jigglypuff in the augmented reality game. What they found instead was an injured puppy in need of veterinary care. The pair told reporters that when they came across the puppy, he appeared to be in pain and was bleeding from the mouth. They looked for his guardian, but no one knew where the dog had come from. As the two were busy searching for answers and help, they received a phone call from their pizza deliverer, Skyler Jerke, who wound up playing an important role in saving this puppy. Read

3D printing facilitates innovate surgery in veterinary medicine for blue macaw..

A prosthetic titanium beak has been manufactured using 3D metal printing and implanted on Gigi, a blue macaw (a genus of the parrot family). This unusual prosthetic saved Gigi’s life, as macaws are unable to eat solid foods without a beak. A team of veterinarians, together with 3D printing experts from the Renato Archer Technology and Information Center (CTI) in Campinas, Brazil, developed an implant solution. The successful operation took place at the Animal Care Center in Ipiranga near Sao Paulo. The artificial beak was created thanks to the cooperation of three specialists. The team, dubbed the “Avengers,” was comprised of veterinarian Roberto Fecchio, 3D designer and facial-reconstruction specialist Cicero Moraes, and veterinary dentist Paul Miamoto. The “Avengers” are pioneers in the use of 3D printing technology for saving the lives of wild animals, and previously made a new shell for Freddy the turtle and a beak for an injured toucan. These prosthetics were made of plastic. In Gigi’s case, however, plastic wasn’t suitable. Macaws use their beaks to open seeds and break other hard shells, so their beaks need to be extremely long-lasting and strong. See more

Entrepreneur turns trash to gold by making 3D- printer filaments.

A new startup plans to help waste pickers earn more by turning plastic waste into a more valuable product 3-D printing filament. The company is turning trash to gold by buying trash and making a component of 3D printer. They produce the plastic thread-like material that 3-D printers use instead of ink. Recycling plastic bottles into filament can help waste pickers increase their incomes by as much as 20 times.The startup will launch in Dar es Salaam and plans to expand to other cities. Around the world, around 40 million waste pickers currently earn less than $2 a day for their work. The demand for the filament is growing a one forecast suggests that 3-D printer sales will double each year for the next few years. By 2019, 5.6 million 3-D printers will sell in a year.The company is working on various models to pay waste pickers. The value increase for them is around 20 times what they make now from the plastic they sell, but that's not the best way to go about impact—giving one waste picker 20 times as much as he makes now. The company is looking into finding ways to either prolong the impact—give them a sustained level of income—or spread it out over a larger group. The company plans to expand to various cities they hope to locate near their biggest markets.The company thinks that developing countries will eventually also become bigger markets for the product, 3-D printing objects that are currently shipped in from elsewhere. See more

Startup creates wealth by turning waste to plastic lumber.

A start-up in Tanzania called EcoAct are recycling consumer waste into plastic lumber, which it calls “an affordable alternative to timber.This reduce the use of building material manufactured from wood. EcoAct believes this will help to preserve forests and have a positive effect on climate change. The startup is on a quest to create sustainable jobs for people in marginalized communities while preserving the environment and reducing effects of climate change by providing eco-friendly quality building products. The startup's vision is to turn waste to wealth by creating ecofriendly products and empowering people. read

Education and role of sanitary pads.

A Kenyan company Pad Heaven, which makes low-cost sanitary pads using the fibres and stems of banana plants. “Their technology converts the plant pulps to make pads that are hygienic, affordable and 95% bio-degradable. Describing itself as “keeping girls in class one pad at a time,” PadHeaven’s Florence Kamaitha says over 900,000 girls in Kenya miss up to four days a month from school due to lack of access to affordable sanitary pads. “We are changing that through our re-usable sanitary pads which we produce with the help of the inmates at Langata women’s prison.” The company came second place at the GIST (Global Innovation through Science and Technology) a major science and technology boot camp in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event was organized for 80 “young and innovative entrepreneurs” by the US Department of State , Venture Well, the Climate Innovation Center, and South Africa’s The Innovation Hub. The pad heaven initiative is