With a body made from recycled plastic, a solar panel for power on the back, an ‘eco-mode’ energy-saving setting, and a built-in ‘eco walk’ pedometer for calculating how much CO2 emissions you’ve saved by walking, the Samsung Blue Earth cell phone just set the bar for eco-friendly phones very high.
Oh, the things we can learn from nature! Take butterflies, for example. An examination of the microscopic properties of butterfly wings by scientists in China and Japan has led to a new idea in solar cells, one which the scientists say could yield a greater efficiency than most other solar cells on the market.
One of the coolest entries that I’ve seen in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition is Recompute, a cardboard-housed PC. The Recompute design does away with many of the not-so-eco-friendly materials that go into computer manufacturing, such as ABS plastic, instead using corrugated cardboard for the housing.
There are still many parts of the world without ready access to electricity. This makes it hard to preserve medicines or to store foods that could quickly go bad. But 21-year-old Emily Cummins — previously named as one of the Future 100 Young Entrepreneurs of the Year and the Ultimate Save-The-Planet-Pioneer in the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women [...]
Little known fact: there is no ENERGY STAR rating for energy-efficient clothes dryers. That’s because they really don’t exist. Until… now? Later this year, Hydromatic Technologies Corporation will introduce their new DryerMiser technology which promises to cut the energy use of clothes drying in half.
Greenbiz.com is holding their State of Green Business Forum on February 2nd in San Francisco. There are just a few spots left to register, but if you can’t make it or are living out of the Bay Area, they will be rolling out their ‘State of Green Business Annual Report‘ on the same day, downloadable [...]
I commute via bicycle nearly everyday. In the Boston area there are some bike lanes painted on the road. Now that is’s winter I find myself commuting in the dark, scary ordeal with Boston drivers. Lightlane could be your personal bike lane no matter where your ride.
We take it for granted but access to clean drinking water is a huge problem in many areas of the world. Particularly 3rd world countries that lack the infrastructure to deliver potable water are forced to deal with what they have, which usually means boiling water before drinking it. This is an effective way of [...]
What’s the carbon diet of your laptop? How does 1000 pounds of CO2 sound? Buying a renewable energy offset credit might be just the ticket to green your web-surfing and support wind energy, and buying one from PoweredGreen won’t break the bank.
Tonight marks the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of Lights. While both cultural consumerism and family tradition has led me to closely associate the holiday with eight days of gifts and wild amounts of potato pancakes (latkes) and deep fried foods like Sufganiot (Jelly Donuts, see above), the story of Hanukkah itself is [...]
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