Archive for category Environment

Cars That Run on Crap and 9 More Amazing Green Stories

Posted by admin in Environment on August 16, 2010

128-degree weather. Climate denying iPhones. Hair on snakes (just kidding). Don’t miss this week’s true tales of green.www.grist.org

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8 Green Ideas I Found On the Web This Week [w/vid]

Posted by admin in Environment on August 14, 2010

Here are some of my favorite “green” articles I found during the past week. They range from an amazing shot taken by my friend Matt, to a story about harnessing Solar Power through Spray-on-Film to 75 iPhone apps to save you money. There is even a stor…

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Is the iPhone 4 a Step in the Green Direction?

Posted by admin in Environment on June 18, 2010

There’s no doubt the iPhone is a qualified success, with millions of the units now in the wild. But millions of anything can have an environmental impact, iPhone included. So, maybe we should ask the question – does the new iPhone have a smaller ecolog…

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Dirty underpants, a mannequin, an A/C unit & an iPhone?

Posted by admin in Environment on April 15, 2010

What do these all have in common? They were among just some of the strange items of trash picked up from New Jersey’s beaches last year as a N.J. beach-cleaning group reports its latest finds.

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SolarFold and SolarFan Make Portable Charging Convenient and

Posted by admin in Environment on March 15, 2010

Leave it to Japanese designers to turn technology into something both stylish and functional — and then keep it all to themselves. The SolarFold and SolarFan portable solar chargers unfold into surface-area-utilizing solar collectors when needed, supplying enough power to make a three-minute iPhone call after just ten minutes in the sun.

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Volvo’s iPhone App Calculates Your Travel-Based CO2 Emission

Posted by admin in Environment on November 30, 2009

Volvo’s got you covered with a new mobile phone app called Commute Greener. The idea is that you tell the app how far you’re going on a particular mode of transportation and it will tell you what your CO2 emissions will be for that trip.

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First Ever Apple-Licensed iPod Solar Charger Case Unveiled

Posted by admin in Environment on September 3, 2009

For those of you with the latest iPod or iPhone Touch, in a months time you�ll be able to charge your Apple gadgets with a fancy schmancy new solar case. Novothink, a manufacturer of alternative electronic devices, has just released their Solar Surge for the iPod and iPhone Touch. Your igadget slides easily into the hard [...]

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San Francisco to be Zero Waste by 2020, New iPhone App Helps

Posted by admin in Environment on June 15, 2009

San Franciscans already lead the nation in recycling – in May they announced a 72% diversion rate of all materials going to the landfill – but they want to do more. Last week San Francisco passed the nation’s first mandatory recycling and composting laws. The city has pledged to recycle 75% of the materials by 2010 and be zero waste by 2020.

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