Sony recently announced that they’ve lowered their global CO2 emissions by 31% since 2000. The electronics giant also made a 54% reduction in waste generation and a 41% reduction in water use. They improved efficiency not only at their plants and offices, but in their product design as well. Their most popular TV model – [...]

A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute looked at the energy consumption of the three most popular video game consoles, the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3, and discovered that the Wii was the most energy efficient, using one-sixth the power used by the other two. The researchers played one [...]

Beginning in 2011, TVs will come with Energy Guide stickers like those found on appliances like refrigerators or washers and dryers. The idea is that this will empower consumers to make energy efficient choices. The Federal Trade Commission is requiring all TVs to bare the stickers, which will feature the estimated annual energy cost of [...]

Created for the Evolo Skyscraper Design Competition, the Gyre Seascraper is a floating zero emissions eco-development from Zigloo Design, a Canadian based company. Only at the conception stages this underwater skyscraper was created to bring both scientists and tourists together to better understand the ocean. The multi-level design spanning 52.3 acres, uses wind, solar, and [...]

According to Mr Steve Jobs, they went down the full environmental checklist. At .5 inches thin, 1.5 pounds — 9.7 inch IPS display – hopefully that won’t require a ton of packaging. Apple is usually good about keeping their packaging and boxes a reasonable size – usually just the size of the product you’re buying. [...]

This year’s Greenpeace “Guide to Greener Electronics” was just released. The lowest scores are higher than last year, but the highest scores are lower. Nokia is still at the top of the list. Below is the list with each company’s score from 1 – 10 with the brief explanation of the score provided by Greenpeace. [...]

BlackBerry is blaming a flawed application for its latest round of email and Internet outages. Things started going bad on Tuesday night, when customers in North American and South America were unable to send or receive messages. Phone calls and text messages were not affected. Research In Motion, the Canadian company that makes BlackBerrys, said [...]

Panasonic has launched a new household LED lightbulb in Japan that apparently lasts 40 times longer than incandescent bulbs. The new LED bulbs are in the EverLed line, and they’ll be siold in Japan starting October 21, with monthly production at 50,000 units. No changes to lighting equipment used for incandescents are required. If used [...]

Energy Star has announced that the new 4.0 and 5.0 specifications for televisions have been set. They’ll go into effect May 2010 and 2012 respectively, and the impact will save users anywhere from 40% to 65% in electricity consumption. There are about 275 million TVs currently in use in the U.S., consuming over 50 billion [...]

The White House announced the resignation of  top environmental adviser, Van Jones, who had talked smack about Republicans and signed a petition supporting the 9/11 conspiracy theory. Van Jones issued a statement decrying “lies and distortions” and a “smear campaign” that he claimed was waged against him by conservatives even though Jones was forced to [...]