Virgin Atlantic will today fly one of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets on biofuel from London Heathrow to Amsterdam — becoming the first airline in the world to fly on renewable fuel. Together with partners Boeing, GE Aviation and Imperium Renewables, Virgin Atlantic is helping to pioneer renewable fuel sources for aviation.

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Aubrey K. McClendon, Chairman of the American Clean Skies Foundation (ACSF), will host a press conference next week to announce the launch date for the independent CleanSkies.tv Network. CleanSkies.tv will be an independent 24-7 online TV network devoted exclusively to energy and the environment. CleanSkies.tv will feature live daily news updates, in-depth newsmagazine content, and round table discussions with policymakers, key industry insiders and environmental activists.
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Since we’re talking a lot about alternative technology and going ‘green’, I guess a car that runs on air will definitely be a worthy addition. A former Formula 1 engineer, Guy Negre, has capped his more than a decade of research and hard work with a car that will run on compressed air.

The “Air Car” has gained a lot of criticisms lately that it won’t appeal to the masses and it doesn’t have much power. But a car that runs without fuel deserves to be noticed. It may not be speedy but in most Asian countries where speed is not important because of the bad traffic, I think the Air Car could be a perfect alternative. 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?

via TechFever.Net

TransFair USA is now offering Fair Trade Certifiedflowers to the U.S. market. The flowers are available to consumers in time for Valentine’s Day. While many people believe cut roses and flowers are grown locally, most commercially available flowers are grown in the developing world. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

According to leading German Business magazine ‘Capital’, U.S. computer giant Apple and German car maker Volkswagen (VW) could not agree yet on the production of the highly anticipated iCar. VW CEO Martin Winterkorn and Apple CEO Steve Jobs met last September to discuss options for creating an iCar, a small car made by Volkswagen equipped with hightech gadgets from Apple targeted for younger audiences. Volkswagen confirmed the talks.
As ‘Capital’ now reports, Apple is also talking to other manufacturers regarding the development of the iCar. ‘The project stands on shaky ground”, quotes Capital sources at Volkswagen. Well then, iIf it’s not gonna be an iBeetle, maybe an iMini, or iCivic. I’d personally prefer a Toyota iPrius: clean, smart, chic …