Tag archive: Green

This isn't just an art installation for art's sake. Famous London monument landmarks have been wrapped around by Blue LED rings to indicate how far underwater researchers expect the city to be by the year 3012. The Plunge project by artist Michael Pinsky is a joint collaboration between the Artsadmin and London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), and aims to raise the public's awareness of the rising sea level due to… Read More

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has come top of the tech companies in Greenpeace’s latest ranking table of the greenest electronics firms. Research In Motion took the 15th spot – out of 15 companies. In compiling the table, part of its Guide to Greener Electronics report, Greenpeace looked closely at the green policies and work practises of 15 leading mobile phone, TV and PC manufacturers, including the likes of Apple, Samsung and Nokia. Companies… Read More

If you don't believe in global warming and hate the sight of hippie youth, you should probably stop reading now and return to the home page. If the powers of the sun intrigue you and you actually care about lowering worldwide CO2 emissions, then we've got a brand new project that might also pique your interest. The Changers Starter Kit ($149) gives users the chance to create (or harvest, more like it) their own solar power and also… Read More

Now that the dust is beginning to settle following the hype surrounding the launch of Apple’s iPhone 4S, it’s time to get back to the serious stuff: Japanese toilet maker Toto has just unveiled a poo-powered motorcycle. The ingenious design runs on human waste, but what makes it really special is that you can fill it up while you’re moving along – that’s right, the toilet is fitted directly onto the vehicle. OK, before you start asking,… Read More

  Google, in playing its role as the world's accumulator of data, uses a whole fleet of data centers worldwide. There's no doubt they use an enormous amount of power, but until now Google has refused to share any statistics. That's all changed with Google Green, a new website dedicated to bringing more transparency into the company's energy usage. While powering Google searches, YouTube, Gchat emoticons and… Read More

We've seen a few products come along that aim to amplify and better the sound that comes from the iPhone 4′s built-in speaker, but this is by far the most intriguing and aesthetically appealing design we've noticed. The iBamboo Speaker ($TBA) uses a foot long piece of all-natural bamboo to amplify the iPhone 4′s speaker sound without any electricity or electric parts. The iBamboo is laser cut at the top for a precise and… Read More

Not long ago, as the Internet, mobile phones and the rest of the connected computing universe hit the elbow of its growth curve, experts and the public alike began to worry about the amount of power the sprawling data centers would require. In 2007, the EPA projected that energy needs for data centers would double from 2005 to 2010 and cost an annual $7.4 billion. Yet in a study prepared by Jonathan Koomey of Stanford University at the request… Read More

For the doom-and-gloom folks out there, yes – it is distinctly possible that fuel prices could soar about $6 per gallon this year. In Europe, filling your tank is usually more expensive than feeding your family for a week. And, according to some economists, recent turmoil overseas, including the Bin Laden takedown and the Japanese nuclear disaster, are creating a volatile market for oil prices.

You’ve already detailed your car, had a garage sale and donated unwanted items to Goodwill. You’ve changed the air filters in your home and dusted behind the refrigerator. So what is a person with nothing to clean have left to do? I mean, besides work all day, make dinner for the family, plan your summer vacation, read books to the kids before bed, catch up the last season of Mad Men before its premiere, and find a more affordable health care… Read More

Today is Earth Day and it seems like everyone is doing their part to make the world a little cleaner, greener, and more sustainable. As a tech website, it's often difficult to remark about a product's environmental impact when most are made from difficult-to-recycle materials, toxic batteries, and require electricity to run. It may be impossible to make your tech products eco-friendly, but it's not too difficult to find… Read More

Sure, buying your limited-edition Voltron action figure online instead of at the local comic book store may save you a 3.8-mile drive to the shop and back, creating the illusion of gas unburned and carbon still safely locked in 1988 Camry, but what about the UPS truck idling outside your door? And the semi truck that it arrived from the airport in? And the Boeing 757 that flew it over from Taiwan? If a steady flow of brown boxes to your front… Read More

NASA must have realized that it's been a while since we had some new pictures of crazy futuristic flying vehicles to look at. The National Aeronautic and Space Administration has released three pictures of concept aircraft that could theoretically hit the skies in 2025. The concepts come from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and The Boeing Company, which were awarded contracts to study and design the future aircraft. NASA intends for all… Read More

When you follow the news on a daily basis, it can be easy to surrender yourself to the gloom of the future being presented. Wars rage around the world, fossil fuels are quickly running out, and natural disasters paint a picture of an increasingly bleak future for the human race. But there is hope. Humanity has not been kind to the forests of the world. Through deforestation stemming from the need to clear land, to cutting forests in order to… Read More

We know, we know: for most people hard drives aren't very exciting, but until the world is completely converted over to SSDs and ubiquitous always-reliable cloud storage they're going go be part of our lives for a while. And storage developers Seagate and Hitachi have some new HDDs that can turn some heads: Seagate's new Barracuda Green drives sport low power consumption and smart material usage, while Hitachi's new 3 TB… Read More