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12th “Guide To Greener Gadgets” Calls Out PC Makers On Eco Promises.

Greenpeace has released their 12th “Guide to Greener Gadgets” and some of the results are not pretty. They have called out HP, Lenovo and Dell for backtracking on their commitment to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009

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Free Heat From An Old Window And Some Soda Cans.

This article was originally posted at my site The Good Human, but because it is “EcoTech” oriented, I figured it should probably be here as well. Enjoy!

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The Field Lab: A Study In Sustainable Living.

I wanted to pass along some info about this site I just started reading called The Field Lab, which is a “Southwest Texas Alternative Energy And Sustainable Living Field Laboratory” as named by John Wells, the proprietor of the “lab”. John has been experimenting with alternative energy and living off-the-grid on 40 acres of [...]

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Energy-Efficient OLED TV’s Coming Our Way.

First we had the gigantic tube TV’s, which sucked energy like nothing else. Then came plasma, which used much less but still ran quite hot. Then we had LCD, which is still the most popular technology on the market right now and are very energy-efficient. But soon, we will be seeing more and [...]

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iPhone Green App - EcoFinder and Haku Wale Help You Recycle

Haku Wale to Release “EcoFinder” iPhone App To Help San Francisco Residents Recycle and Dispose of Materials

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The Daily Five: Friday, 03 July, 2009

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Massachusetts ocean energy; Biodiesel Pipeline Starts Operations; GM Says Volt to be sportier than Prius, Insight; President Obama announces new light bulb standards; Solar vest won’t win you any friends
Massachusetts Master Plan for Ocean Energy. Massachusetts has released a draft of a plan that would govern the permitting and management of projects such as tidal [...]

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The Daily Five: Thursday, 02 July, 2009

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Bridge Between Private and Public Transport; Tires made of orange oil; Solar aircraft to circumnavigate the globe; Lemon-juice & water powered clock; Fake trees helping to clean up CO2
A Bridge Between Private and Public Transport. It’s a small non-polluting vehicle that not only works on a giant organized system that reduces traffic and travel time [...]

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The Daily Five: Wednesday, 01 July, 2009

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Big Dig House; Tougher LEED standards; Scion iQ coming soon; Magic Cube; More solar arrays on public lands
Big Dig House reuses materials from the Big Dig in Boston. The structural system for this 3,400sf house is comprised of steel and concrete discarded from Boston’s Big Dig, utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials from elevated [...]

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The Daily Five: Tuesday, 30 June, 2009

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Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel; Anheuser-Busch Taps Landfill Gas for Houston Brewery; LED clock munches bugs and converts carcasses into energy; Storing Hydrogen Using Chicken Feathers; Toyota Prius vs. VW Clean Diesel
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel. Scientists have been trying for years to find a non-food source for ethanol. A company in Bonita Springs, Florida, [...]

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The Daily Five: Monday, 29 June, 2009

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Electric lawnmowers, Solar supercar, Waterless washing machine, Smart ForTwo $99, Sacramento smart power grid
Trade-in Your Gas Guzzler for an Electric Mower in Southern California The South Coast Air Quality Management District is sponsoring a program called “Mow Down Air Pollution” which offers LA, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino county residents an opportunity to trade [...]

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The Daily Five: Friday, 26 June, 2009

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Microsoft’s energy management tool; Audi Pushes Clean Diesel on Facebook; $4.5 billion in smart grid grants coming out;Message from Al Gore – Clean Energy Bill (Video); Solar-powered Android cell phone
Microsoft’s energy management tool. While most everyone knows that Google has been developing one, I had no idea that Microsoft was too. Their device, like Google’s, [...]

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The Daily Five: Thursday, 25 June, 2009

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Toyota’s solar-powered car; Tidal & wave power among the most expensive; All-electric smart fortwo; Monolab solar skyscraper; Green energy investments overtake fossil fuel investment
Toyota developing a car that would charge only by solar energy. The concept for their solar car would get some of its power from solar cells on the vehicle and the [...]

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