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Are you overcome with guilt about how much carbon, sulfides, nitrides, and other emissions goodies were pumped into the atmosphere in the making of your new Toyota Prius? Do you feel dirty?
Well, Toyota has just the thing for you. It has genetically engineered two new species of flowers that soak up air pollution.
Check out Part I and Part II in our series about life in the year 2020.
Our cities are a mess. Based on grids of pavement for devices of transport that pump poisonous fumes into the atmosphere, they and their inhabitants are slowly but inexorably being choked into submission. Many of them are rotting from the core – their eroding downtowns often unattainable in heavy traffic from the distant, sprawling suburbs that surround them.
You might not hop in a car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and drive to work until decades from now, but you can charge up your gadgets based on a different type of fuel cell in just a few days. After a long line of prototypes, Toshiba has finally released the Dynario, its first methanol-powered gadget charger.
Fill the Dynario with methanol – the same stuff powering dragsters, monster trucks and Indy cars – and it reacts with ambient oxygen in the air to produce electricity. Enough electricity, according to Toshiba, to charge two typical mobile phones.
Mercedes-Benz Korea (www.mercedes-benz.co.kr: President & CEO Harald Behrend) has released a new model, the next-generation S350 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY. This is a crystallization of Benz’s own innovative, environmentally-friendly BlueEFFICIENCY technology.
Mercedes-Benz took high-level safety and comfort into consideration, as well as a dynamic and modern design, innovative environmentally-friendly technology, best fuel efficiency, and various kinds of convenient gadgets for Korean consumers.
You may not give much thought to what happens to your ink-encrusted old print cartridges after the new ones come out of the foil wrapper, but tossing them away should be about the last thing you consider. Like paper, plastic, glass and all the other materials you load into your recycling bin every week, there’s a whole other life for print cartridges out the landfill. And even better, like soda cans or old cars, you might even be able to score some money for your good deed in the process. Here are three environmentally friendly options for your used print cartridges when their printing days are (seemingly) over.
There are two groups of people you don’t want to aggravate in this world: florists and environmentalists. We learned the first after making “disparaging remarks” (their words, not ours) about the longevity of flowers in this year’s Valentine’s Day gift guide, prompting a fiery letter from the Society of American Florists. The second piece of knowledge was gleaned after criticizing LG’s “environmentally friendly” Skycharger at CES this year.
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