Images via Greenopolis Art made from waste is a favorite subject around here, especially when that artwork is cute and/or gorgeous. A few artists have created sculptures that fill both categories, using junked electronics. Miguel Rivera, Alexdromeda, George Sabra, and Brenda Guyton all have created some extraordinary pieces anyone with an affinity for interesting art would love to have in their homes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Adorable Sculptures Created from e-Waste
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Image via Yanko Design It’s called the Solarlight but it has nothing to do with sunlight. It actually generates electricity with wind power. The concept by designer Eon Tae Yoon is a way to teach children about sustainability for energy generation; specifically, how a bit of breeze can provide us with light. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pinwheel Concept Lights Up With Wind Power. So Why Is It Called Solarlight?
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Photo by canned muffins Just how important is turning off computers at the end of the day in an office building? Very, if a company wants to save big bucks on electricity bills. According to UC San Diego researchers, 50-80% of a modern building’s electricity use goes to IT equipment, particularly desktop computers. A report last year showed that not shutting down PCs equated to $2.8 billion in wasted electricity . Still, many offices don’t encourage their employe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Microsoft App Can Cut PC Power Consumption By 80%
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Yves Behar enjoys a kind of celebrity sex appeal that no other industrial designer can claim (who else has thrown condoms at the TED audience?). He’s bestowed his aesthetics on the One Laptop Per Child , Herman Miller lighting , a line of green underwear , the Jawbone Bluetooth headset, and the
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Super Designer Yves Behar
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Image via Orange Orange and GotWind is a partnership known for coming up with some interesting new ways of generating power for off-grid charging. They’ve created everything from solar- and wind-powered tents to foot pumps . But now they want to attach that foot-powered action to boots themse… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Charge Your Gadgets With Your Boots? Orange Unveils Power-Generating Wellies
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Samsung has been known to put out some green-minded cell phones, from the Blue Earth solar powered phone that seemed promising to the Reclaim , an inexpensive phone for the masses that carries a lighter footprint. Now, their Restore has just been released, perfect for anyone with an affinity for texting rather than talking. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Samsung’s Newest Eco-Friendly Cell Phone Hits Stores
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Images via Nokia Nokia holds a proud ranking of one of the greenest tech companies around, applauded by everyone from Greenpeace to Dow Jones . The company has earned the accolades with tough standards fro green, and they’ve just released two green things we like: profiles of every new gadget they … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nokia Unveils Eco Profiles of Every Device, and Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger
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150 miles north of Toronto is the most extraordinary wilderness, Algonquin Provincial Park . If you own a car, it is an easy drive on good highways. If you don’t it is not so easy; a bus or train to Huntsville , an expensive taxi ride or hitchhike in; for camping, just like anything else, the system is easy and convenient for cars and difficult for the rest. If we are going to get people out of cars, this has to change. And it is changing; this year a new non-profit called
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Every City Needs This: The Parkbus, Direct From City To Park
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We are big fans of erstwhile TreeHugger contributor and designer Joey Roth, and of his elegant ceramic speakers , reviewed on TreeHugger here . They are simple and elegant, made of natural materials and built to last. But Joey can’t leave well enough alone, so he gave a set of speakers to collaborators “to modify and reshape using their own visual language…to work with a musician they know to produce a track to accompany their speaker interpretations.” The work… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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1 Set of Ceramic Speakers, 10 Artists. Including David Lynch, Tobias Wong (Slideshow)
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What do you get when you combine the iPad with two strips of Velcro? Apparently, the ultimate device-killer. Northern California filmmaker Jesse Rosten put together a video showing how mounting an iPad on two strips of Velcro could mean the ability to ditch the majority of electronics in your home. Well…within reason. Check out some funny and creative uses for the iPad, made all the easier with the addition of Velcro … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The iPad + Velcro = The Ultimate Electronic? (Video)
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