Swedish SEKAB today announced that it is the first company in the world to supply verified sustainable ethanol. This ethanol from Brazilian sugarcane is quality assured from environmental, climate and social perspectives.
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If you thought the luxuries of the solar revolution were limited to laptop bags and multi-gadget chargers, you may want to think again. Those who are always on the go and need to use their laptop frequently have some good news here. Although it is just a concept as of now, the solar powered notebook Read the rest of this entry »

AMD today announced the availability of the pc industry’s most advanced motherboard GPU, the AMD 780 Series, delivering a rich computing experience for casual gamers and multimedia enthusiasts as the core of quiet and energy-efficient PC designs. Read the rest of this entry »

Lately, we’ve been featuring solar powered gadgets here. Now, another addition to the list of greener gadgets that does use energy from alternatives sources: No, not from the sun, but from the sun but from gravity, another force that will never run out.

Gravia , a 4-feet tall Gravity-powered LED lamp, was invented by a tech student from Virginia when he discovered a way to use gravity or weight force similar to that used in a grandfather clock. Since this is gravity-powered, there is absolutely no need to plug it in to work. More good news: you can use it up to 200 years! Read the rest of this entry »

Our electricity bill just balloons month after month so we’re looking for better alternatives. There’s the solar charger charm , wind-powered charger, and the solar panels but for people like me who love music, an alternative to my iPod or MP3 player would be good. The E-Pod windup jukebox perhaps can be the answer to everyone’s problem of batteries frequently running out.

E-pod or should I say the “greenPod” was invented by Trevor Baylis who also came up with the idea for the windup radio in 1989. Also called the Eco Media Player, the E-pod can play your favorite tunes for 20 hours. One-minute of turning the green music player is enough to produce 40-minutes of power. Read the rest of this entry »

New York-based, MagPower Systems is introducing an environmentally friendly non-toxic fuel cell that generates electricity through the combination of a saltwater electrolyte, air (oxygen), magnesium and MagPower’s patented technologies. In the PAST the magnesium-air technology has never reached the commercial stage due to several technological barriers such as hydrogen generation, precipitate control, anode material, air-diffusion cathode and expensive manufacturing process. Read the rest of this entry »

Wanna be instylegreen even with your cell phone provider? Then here’s your choice: Verizon Wireless. According to IDG’ Computerworld tech trade publucation, is the carrier to go to. Verizon is the only Wireless Company Honored for Excellence in “Green” IT Practices. What does it mean when a company “goes green”? For Verizon Wireless, it means lower energy usage, power consumption and emissions, as well as environmentally-friendly. Hello? Can u hear me?

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So you’ve attended tons and tons of seminars on re-using waste, but they were nothing more than B-School mandatory torture right? It’s all good when they talk about it, but when you actually got to come down to doing it, it’s not until you hit an MIT website that you realize it’s actually possible to do it from the comfort of your home.
What we have here is something that’ll give you reason enough to smile, and pride enough to join planet saving programmes having something of your own to talk about. The FuelPod2, is a home use plug and play biodiesel producer. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, so maybe the days of dark sunglasses and Wrigley’s chewing gums as spy cams are as much a joke, as shooting theives with a bow and arrow is, but then maybe the security guys won’t find the newest invention as funny. One because, they don’t know about it yet, and second, when they do know, they’ll be wondering why they hadn’t been expecting this.

This thing will play the big daddy game for you: A pen with a wireless mini spy camera that also comes with a solar charger for effortless charging and also has an MP4/Wireless receiver which will help you with all the recording. Read the rest of this entry »

At a time when the plug-points on the wall seem to be the single stop solution for every gadget you got in your home or office, a wind-up rechargable battery (like the one you see above) may seem like a laughable option. But then again, think of it’s uses when you’re at the remotest of places, stuck up with a broken car and got simply nothing to do? For those of us who just can’t sit still, here’s something that would be fun (or so I hope) and actually give you something in return for that fun. Read the rest of this entry »