Category: Green news

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…

See? If people put their heads together and think about things hard enough, we’ll realize that there is always a better solution, a better alternative. I suppose we can be thankful for all the people who are trying to think of ways for the planet to be powered by clean fuels–great job, everyone. A new…

The 2007 Annual National Shopping Behavior Survey has released its findings for the holiday season and things are looking up: Shoppers have placed the environment on top of their buying priorities. Read more about it.