{"id":2628,"date":"2012-11-17T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2012-11-17T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T16:23:45","slug":"olin-college-graduates-design-an-eco-friendly-toothbrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/olin-college-graduates-design-an-eco-friendly-toothbrush\/","title":{"rendered":"Olin College Graduates Design an Eco-friendly Toothbrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> business section &#8212; <em>Design Firm Looks to Reinvent Toothbrush<\/em> &#8212; caught the eye of Green Needham members. The piece featured two recent graduates of Olin College of Engineering, Jake Felser and Ollie Haas, who have developed a more eco-friendly toothbrush.<\/p>\n<p>Green Needham is well aware of Ollie&#8217;s commitment to the environment. As an Olin student, he took time out of an intense course of studies to help develop Green Needham&#8217;s 10% Energy Challenge, designing a sophisticated, interactive, online tool that enables users to make a personal plan to reduce energy use.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation, Felser and Haas started a new company, LittleBonsai, (<a href=\"http:\/\/littlebonsai.com\/rebrush\/\" target=\"_blank\">go to company website<\/a>),\u00a0which makes their ReBrush product, a toothbrush with handles made of either sustainable hardwood or aluminum, and a replaceable head. Although the brush head cannot be recycled, the handle can be reused, greatly reducing the waste.<\/p>\n<p>What a great idea \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2012\/09\/26\/building-better-toothbrush\/ATlyLiQdE4LMIenqoliQQL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Boston Globe business section &#8212; Design Firm Looks to Reinvent Toothbrush &#8212; caught the eye of Green Needham members. The piece featured two recent graduates of Olin College of Engineering, Jake Felser and Ollie Haas,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy-at-home","category-green-tips-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}