Inventor Jon Bohmer, a Norwegian-born entrepreneur based in Kenya, faced a problem that’s ever-so-common among innovative thinkers. In his quest to help developing countries, he looked for solutions that were way too complex for way too long.

Of course, the complicated problems that Bohmer is trying to resolve are anything but simple. One is the issue of rural residents, fueled by poverty and desperation, cutting down trees for firewood at unsustainable rates. This practice leads to deforestation and, in turn, global warming.
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Do you remember when SUVs were invented? At the time, they seemed like luxury apartments on wheels, with the stability of the large truck and the comfort of a swanky sedan.

That, of course, was before gas prices ballooned and the feverish wave of green-friendly living hit the country. Now, in terms of what’s “en vogue”, InventHelp’s Invention Girl thinks compact is the new black!
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InventHelp’s Invention Girl has learned a surprising statistic: nearly 7 percent of our daily fuel consumption in the U.S. is caused by vehicles that aren’t even moving. The culprit? Big rigs that sit idling while the drivers sleep inside the cab.
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You’ve heard of wind power and solar power, but what about wave power? InventHelp’s Invention Girl has learned that the world’s first commercial wave power project has been inaugurated off the Portuguese coast.
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As the evenings grow cooler and the warm summer sun is replaced by the gray overcast shade of fall, many people are pulling in the lawn furniture and hunkering down for cool weather. Well, people aren’t the only ones moving indoors as the season changes – bugs are migrating indoors, too.

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Now that school is back in session and the great sales are over, it’s back to business as usual for students, teachers and the rest of academia. And even parents are done with the major school-supply crunch, InventHelp’s Invention Girl knows from experience that school shopping is never over until the end of the year!
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Even though going to the gym is great for our bodies, it’s not always great for the environment. Dozens of televisions dangle from the ceiling, electronic treadmills hum and all those sweaty towels certainly don’t wash themselves!
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I’m lucky that I get to blog as InventHelp’s Invention Girl because 1) I get to share with others my insatiable desire for all things electronic 2) blogging means that I don’t have to waste paper.

A career in communications has come a long way since 300-page company status reports and projector slides (as a company formed in the early 1980s, InventHelp definitely knows something about those!). As more and more offices move toward electronic documentation sharing, web-based human resources information and PowerPoint presentations, the direct benefit goes to the environment.
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