Green Daily

Ikea announced recently that it plans to invest a big chunk of change in clean technology groups, with the intent to develop products to be sold in its stores. The possible green advances in Ikea stuff that could be invented through this genius move might fall into the realm of solar panels, lighting, energy efficiency, water purification, and "product materials" in general.

The best part is that the head of Ikea's greentech group reassured the media that the new green products would remain affordable, like all things Ikea (except for those random couches that suddenly cost $1000 - what's up with that?) "Really low prices, and they should be of very good quality. That's the only thing we look at, we would never look at anything else, we would discard anything else that doesn't fall into those boundaries," he told the Cleantech Group.

The bittersweet part of this news is that these advances are still somewhat in the future - Ikea says it'll take probably between three to four years to bring the products to market.