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Gallery: Green innovation challenge

By Colin Barras

19 April 2009

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The Kyoto Box, a solar-powered oven fashioned from cardboard and silver foil that won the FT Climate Change Challenge

(Image: Kyoto Energy)

The is an international competition to find innovative ideas for a world in environmental flux, organised by the newspaper and the nonprofit .

See the winner and short-listed innovations in our gallery

The short-listed entries include a garlic extract to prevent cows and sheep belching excesses of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, and green hubcaps that improve fuel consumption by reducing the turbulence experienced by truck wheels.

The winner, a solar-powered oven for boiling and sterilising water, was announced this month.

See the winner and short-listed innovations in our gallery

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