Author: The GU team

Hialeah, Miami, and Miami-Dade county are making the switch to eco-friendly, fuel-efficient garbage trucks, looking to cut carbon emissions by 28 tons a year. Apart from that, Hialeah also plans to switch to an automated garbage pickup system in the future.

Not carbon footprints, by the way; just your own. Brooks’ new shoe, Green Silence, is totally green and anything but silent. Its yellow and red color combination (about which I’m kind of doubtful) shows that green fashion doesn’t have to be dull or full of earth colors, guaranteeing that the shoes will catch people’s eye…

Could this be the world’s most primitive hotel? Who knows? Maybe there are more primitive hotels out there that are so into the primitive theme that they don’t have a website. But for now, Kolarbyn in Sweden is a contender for the title. The lodge features 12 forest huts with a wooden heater for each…

If you’re hungry for fruit, that is. Neighborhood Fruit has developed an iPhone application that will help you find readily available fruits in your neck of the woods. Did you know that there are lots of fruit trees on public lands? I didn’t, but this app will greatly help those who are on the lookout…

Did you know that there is such a thing as an EcoBroker? They’re real estate agents who have a thorough knowledge of green architecture and living, to put it simply, and the title is bestowed on real estate professionals who have achieved the green certification after undergoing the training program. I found out about them…

I tend to drink lots and lots of Coca-Cola, although lately, I’ve been able to go for five days without it. My sisters are not pleased about my habit, but oh well, I do my best. Apart from satisfying my thirst, it looks like Coke can serve a different purpose now, thanks to a discovery…

Okay, so I’m not really into netbooks, though gods know I need one, but this one by Sony is a pretty interesting piece of work. The eco-friendly Vaio has 1GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and can keep going for seven hours fully charged (hah, loads better than the three I get on mine)….

British import Ella’s Kitchen organic food products for babies and children made its way across the pond this past fall. The foods are available at Babies R Us and Toys R Us.

Ecoseed reports that Ford is pouring in more money to make sure that more electric vehicles will be out on the market by 2012. The extra $450 million will turn their assembly plant into a facility that will roll out electric cars and hybrids, with the Ford Focus Electric slated for release in 2011.

I was just looking up information on how I can send packages to my sisters in the U.S., so I visited LBC‘s website. Not only did I find what I was looking for, but I was pleasantly surprised to read news about their green projects and changes. They’ve switched to biodegradable plastic for their delivery…