Author: The GU team

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….

I caught some portions of the CNN Future Summit earlier, and a quick feature on synthetic trees got my attention. Host Richard Quest did say that trees do a “jolly good job” of sucking up CO2, but they’re not enough. Hence, synthetic trees! Global Research Technologies, LLC and Columbia University’s Klaus Lackner have developed “air…

An airplane in flight around the world without any fuel or source of power apart from the solar cells on its wings? If you’re thinking this is an impossible feat, you’re not alone. The people behind Solar Impulse are calling it a crazy gamble too, and I don’t blame them or anyone who might be…

I don’t know enough about how this vehicle runs to be able to make an intelligent assessment, but I do know this: the MDI Air Car runs on compressed air. You can’t get any cleaner than that. If only things were as simple as coming up with green vehicle concepts, then this would be a…