Author: The GU team

It’s never too early in the year for you to start thinking about how you can make your upcoming vacations green. Apart from making a conscious effort to choose eco-friendly lodging, way before all the holiday weekends start, you should also consider offsetting all the traveling you’ll be doing. San Francisco-based company Terrapass is the…

How many papers did we write in school where we changed the font size and increased the margins to meet the page or number of words requirement? Little did I know that I was wasting money and paper. Ideal bite says that if 10,000 people switch from the default settings to 0.5-in margins, in a…

Travellers and jetsetters, you can also purchase carbon offsets at Native Energy. The money is used to support renewable energy projects. Before you leave, get the Lonely Planet Code Green guidebook. It is printed on recycled paper and features eco-trips.

If you’re planning to venture into the food business, you might want to take a look at these ideas for a green cuisine business from Small Business Trends and try to figure out a good answer to the question, “How do you think you can mix food and beverage business ideas with green-friendly objectives?” I’m…

Nanosolar‘s Powersheet has been named by Popular Science as one of the top innovations of 2007. And who won’t love super-thin solar panels which would mean affordability and easier installation? Clearly, a lot of people do, and the company’s actually sold out for the next year!

I saw New York City Mayor Bloomberg on the Today Show this morning promoting Mulchfest 2008. New Yorkers can bring their Christmas trees to designated sites where they will be turned to wood chips. The mulch will then be placed in gardens and tree pits. For more information, click here. You can also visit the…

For those of you who don’t know, vampire energy can spring upon you even if you think your appliances are turned off–take for example your laptop’s wall adapter which you left plugged in even if you’ve taken off with your laptop somewhere. It may not be powering anything at the moment, but it’s still sucking…

Testway Housing development residents are having trouble with a tetchy wood pellet boiler, leaving most of them braving the cold weather by wearing warm clothing indoors. Dr. Phillip Purdy from Dallas does everything he could to make his weekend home as eco-friendly as possible. From the India Times: Here are some leads on environmentally friendly…

Instead of just dumping out your food waste which will only go to the landfills and emit harmful gases when they decompose, you can always just compost them. And if you want an easier way to compost, check out NatureMill. Deposit food waste items at any time, on any day. Add up to 120 lbs…

I have a real thing for solar-powered stuff, and with all the sunshine we get here, it would be really great to take advantage of that–if more solar-powered products were available! I’d just have to content myself with looking at such things online for now. Here’s a great find: the SunTable. Created by Devang A….