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General Electric Invests $10 Billion in Ecomagination

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Mykl Roventine Ecomagination is General Electric’s environmentally-focuses research and development program. We’ve watched Ecomagination for years now, including eyeing it for greenwash , and the program has continued to grow, even becoming the first corporate tenant in Masdar City . And now, it is about to get a whole lot bigger as GE invests a full $10 billion into the programs with a g… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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E-ink Reveals Flexible, Extra-Tough e-Paper Display

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via ARMdevices video E-ink, a company hard at work on perfecting electronic paper technology, has revealed a new flexible e-paper display that is intended to help get more e-readers into schools. The classroom is an ideal setting for e-readers — they hold hundreds of books and images, allow note-taking and other necessary features students need, and may one day soon even be able to play video, all on a low-power device. Companies from Sony to Amazon are vying to make the perfect device for students, but what they’ll all need is a displa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sony Ericsson Adds The Cedar Cell Phone to GreenHeart Line

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Sony Ericsson Sony Ericsson is adding on to their GreenHeart line of greenish cell phones with a new release, the Cedar. Just two years ago, the GreenHeart line held only a concept phone , but now it is several models strong as Sony Ericsson focuses on designing cell phones with ever smaller footprints. The Cedar features business practicality with social networking too… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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MoGO iPhone App Helps Citizens Report Oiled Wildlife in Gulf

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via MoGO A new iPhone app is helping turn citizens into assistants for rescue workers in the Gulf of Mexico. Called MoGO – short for Mobile Gulf Observatory – users can take photos of oiled or dead wildlife, tar balls and oil slicks and upload them into the database which pinpoints their location for rescue workers. The free app gives untrained citizens a way to significantly help in the rescue effort, and gives trained volunteers and scientists much needed help in keeping track of impacted wildlife…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greener Graphene? Eco-Friendlier Mass Production Method Shows Promise

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Rensselaer/Kar Graphene has been touted for the last few years as the next big thing in electronics . Potentially replacing copper and silicon in devices and promising to provide more energy efficient, faster charging batteries, the material has so far been limited by an inability to be mass produced. However, researchers have found a way to make a whole lot of graphene quickly and cheaply, which means we could see big improvements in everything from environment sensors for detecting pollution levels to

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What is Yahoo! Doing with Goats?

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Goat Tech 1.0 An internet giant’s datacenter might not be the first place where you would expect to find a herd of goats, but if you happen to be at Yahoo!’s datacenter in Quincy, Washington, you could very well meet some very special employees working to clear out invasive weeds…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transforming DIY Player is Your All-in-One Gadget

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images via Yanko Design A cool concept device from designer Shao Wen highlights a feature we love in greener gadgets – upgradability in an all-in-one device. With keyboards that swap in and out, the device transforms from cell phone to media player to gaming device and practically anything else you could want when you want it. While many devices already do this without the need to swap keyboards, they leave out the option for upgrading or replacing only the component that is broken. This concept solves that problem. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Personal Fuel Cell Offers Pocket-Sized Power from Water (Video)

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies With off-grid charging for mobile devices set to be a $2.3 billion industry , it’s no wonder that practically every company specializing in personal off-grid power is trying to shrink down their products to something purse-sized. Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is known for their innovation in small scale power, showing off a

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San Francisco Rules for Cell Phone Radiation Warnings at Retailers

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Guwashi999 Cell phone radiation and its impacts on health is still a highly controversial issue with the debate raging on whether or not humans are at risk every time they hold their phone to their head. Nevertheless, some municipalities aren’t willing to take the chance that one day researchers will indeed conclude we’re frying our brains and all this while they did li… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Connecticut Becomes 24th State to Put e-Waste Recycling Into Law

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by cjb Thankfully, we’ve seen a rush of states adding new e-waste regulations and laws to their books, most recently with New York and hot on the heals of that news comes word that Connecticut will be the 24th US state to put enact an electronics recycling law, starting this fall. Gadget manufacturers will have to take note — Connecticut will require manufacturers to front the cost of transport and recycling of the equipment. As it becomes… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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