Author: The GU team

Eco-Limo – get around LA, SF, or DC in one of seven car options, including a Lexus 400h or Mercedes E320 ($45-$85/hr). Elite Green Car – chauffeurs you around Atlanta in a Lexus RX 400 ($56/hr). Green Limousine – a biodiesel Ford Excursion helps you hit the slopes in CO ($70-$80/hr). Green Car Limo –…

I stumbled upon this bit of good news (“Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet From London”) from our airline industry. Kudos to Virgin Atlantic! Here’s hoping other airlines will follow suit. The second paragraph of the article (see below) was just a bit annoying to read: Some analysts praised the jumbo jet test flight from London to…

Saw this on Common Ground: If you need eco-related movies, Green Planet Films lets you order DVDs online and they’ll mail it to you. You can keep it for a month then send it back for free. It’s like Netflix for the green consumer.

Well well well, you do pick up something new everyday. I wouldn’t have thought that there was a contest at all for the title of eco-friendly orange juice between canned frozen orange juice and non-concentrates in cartons. Check out Slate’s The Green Lantern if you need this issue cleared up as well.

Those who are familiar with the “Knight Rider” would, of course, know KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand). NBC recently showed a two-hour movie of “Knight Rider” that showed a more modern KITT. Now KITT stands for Knight Industries Three Thousand. I admit, KITT is not real. But come on, isn’t it just fun that he’s…

I saw a pamphlet for an aquatic continuing education course at the Desert Pain Institute in Arizona. It caught my eye because aside from using Feng Shui and Biogeometry principles, it is supposedly a green building. So if you’re in the area and need Physical Therapy and other treatments for chronic pain, check it out.

Now here’s something to show everyone how one person’s efforts can make a big difference. Liu Ying, a 78-year-old woman in China, has been making shopping bags since 1992 and giving them away to all her neighbors. She wishes everyone else would start seeing just how terrible plastic bags are for the environment, but she…

Can you blame me for falling in love with this one? Rebecca Potger has designed the Daylight lamp, which, much like my beloved Sun Jar, gathers daylight by day. All you have to do is put it outdoors and leave it upside down, letting the solar panels gather power. At night, bring it in, put…

If you’re a Net Impact member, you might want to start sharing your green ideas with the world. So if you want to develop a program or a system that will help your company, organization, or school operate in a more environmentally friendly way, get together with other Net Impact members and put your heads…

Times Square is famous for its bright neon lights attracting tourists from all over the world. It’s an amazing man-made sight to behold. I do wonder about its energy usage though. Sure, the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball went green last December. But I do hope that the Times Square area as a whole…