Author: The GU team

It’s time to flex your product designing skills and join the design competition by Greener Gadgets! Greener Gadgets has partnered with Core77 to seek out design innovations for greener electronics. This design competition will engage established design firms, emerging designers, and design students to come up with new and innovative solutions to address the issues…

Now this could be one of the most amazing recycled products ever conceived or…not. Depends on how the couch is made, really. But as you can see, this couch was made out of styrofoam, an idea by designer Kwangho Lee. Looks like he got his hands on loads of old styrofoam sheets and decided to…

At Local Harvest, you can find farmers markets, restaurants and farms so you can purchase fresh produce. According to Ideal Bite, of the energy that goes into getting food on your plate, 16% is used in processing, and 7% is used in packaging; fresh fruits and veggies require almost no energy for these things.

A lot of people can’t wrap their heads around the idea of living without oil. This article can make us all think how an oil-free world would work.

It’s winter, and my skin gets so dry that sometimes the only thing that works is Vaseline. Ideal Bite however says that Petrolatum is listed as a probable carcinogen under the EU’s Dangerous Substances Directive. But it is in 1 out of 14 body care products in the U.S. For your dry skin and chapped…

After a Nor’easter yesterday that wasn’t, I believe this article. Less snowfall, spring-like temperatures, signs of green. Every year that I’ve been in the Northeast, winter seems to get milder and milder. We had 60 degree weather last week. So I was disappointed when we didn’t get a snow day. Maybe this Thursday’s coming storm…

Heading out to LA? Check out this Political Cortex article on rental cars in Los Angeles. I love the writer’s stories about their experiences using electric and hybrid cars, and from the sound of it, they didn’t experience any hiccups with the vehicles at all.

Apparently, car manufacturers know how to build green vehicles, but they just don’t know how receptive people will be to them, plus they’re overwhelmed by all the expenses involved in making their cars eco-friendly. This article tells us more about this matter. I don’t know, but I think that eco-friendly cars will appeal to a…

Last week, the Environment Summit was held in Southern Leyte, where Philippine government agencies and officials discussed how best to balance development and environmental protection. The best part is the Department of Environment and Natural Resources got such a well-deserved chewing-out from Representative Roger Mercado. This is the agency that is supposed to be protecting…

The Guardian has a pretty solid and informative Environment news section right now, but they’re out to become even better. They’re looking for a website editor to oversee the section’s revamp, and they need an inventive, organised journalist with a track record in the subject with proven experience of editing on or running a website….