Build a Green Home - No More Power Bills

A New Jersey engineer Mike Strizki has created a green home resulting in no more power bills ever, and not just electric bills. Strizki converts sunshine into electricity using photovoltaic panels - and then uses the electricity to wring hydrogen for fuel out of ordinary …

Green is In, but What is Green? “Green” Lifestyles and Green Living

In preparing for this new job, writing for GO Media’s Sustainablog and Planetsave blog, I was picking up green magazines, green newspaper articles, advertisements for green books and goods, and thinking (even more than normal) about green living, green lifestyles, and how we are going …

Minneapolis Stops Idling

The city council in Minneapolis MN has adopted an ordinance to prohibit automobiles from idling for more than three minutes. The measure is aimed at reducing atmospheric pollution, but should also be welcomed by anyone who wants to save money, given the currently escalating …

Stop the Spray or Mothra Might Ruin the Economy

In California, and San Francisco in particular, we see almost as many Obama for president placards in home and business windows as we see Stop the Spray signs. It seems like the precursor for a B-grade sci-fi film with the storyline pitting the the government …

How to Make Green A Moral Imperative

For many people, the world exists as a separate, objective whole to be exploited or polluted without any expense at the personal level. If anything, people wall themselves from the consequences of their actions. Take for example, people dump trash everywhere without a trifle to the …

Environmental Implications of Another Baby Boom

Birth control methods. There are many, but the two most common forms are the condom and the hormonal pill. Can these products be manufactured sustainably? If not… who cares? There is something I would like to add to list of “things I would never give …

Toyota Building Nickel-Metal Hydride and Lithium-Ion Battery Plants for Electric and Hybrid Cars

What will $192 million buy? A nickel-metal hydride battery plant in Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan. Toyota is teaming up with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, makers of Panasonic, to build a plant to produce the batteries currently used in the Prius. Rumors are also …

Lights powered by Magnetic Field only

This field has 1,301 florescent bulbs planted in it, and they’re all glowing. They aren’t plugged into anything, however; they’re powered solely from the magnetic fields produced by the power lines above.

GRAVIA: Gravity Based Kinetic Energy Lamp

Gravia, a gravity based kinetic energy lamp concept, wowed our panel judges and the crowd at the Greener Gadgets Conference, earning a second place accolade in the design competition.

Internet helps Americans save more energy every year

For every kilowatt-hour of power that Internet-linked computers use, they save at least 10 times that amount, a recent study finds.

Turn manure into fuel for cooking and electricity.

Sintex Industries, a plastics and textiles manufacturer in Gujarat, India, is betting it can find profit in human waste. Its new biogas digester turns human excrement, cow dung, or kitchen garbage into fuel that can be used for cooking or generating electricity, simultaneously addressing two of India’s major needs: energy and sanitation.

Should I Cancel My Newspaper Subscription?

The environmental pros and cons of reading online.