The book and newspaper publishing industry is one of the planet’s most voracious polluters. Last year, those industries efforts resulted in the harvesting of over 125 million trees. A new report by the Cleantech Group, called “The Environmental Impact of Amazon’s Kindle” is a study of the emissions that devices could produce and prevent. According [...]

Have a future scientist on your hands? Well good news, you can get them a Discovery Channel Kids Mega View Microscope at the price of $12.99 with $5 shipping fee. It’s a great deal for such an impressive toy. Discovery Channel Kids Mega View Microscope can be used as a traditional microscope, or be connected [...]

Green and yellow-minded scientists from Ohio University are developing a new technology that uses a nickel-based electrode, to create large amounts of hydrogen from urine. That hydrogen could be burned or used in fuel cells. “One cow can provide enough energy to supply hot water for 19 houses,” said Gerardine Botte, a professor at Ohio [...]

Air conditioner efficiency is marked on the side off all units as a number called the EER (Energy Efficiency Rating). The Energy Efficiency Rating is a ratio of the BTUs of the unit to the amount of power it consumes in Watts. That means that an air conditioner with 10,000 BTU capacity and an EER [...]

Greenpeace International has released its annual “Guide to Greener Electronics” where it ranks leading electronics companies on their policies towards toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. Here’s the highlights (and lowlights) of that list with each company’s score from 1 – 10 (10 being the best) with the short explanation of the score provided by [...]

Microsoft Corp., has launched Hohm, a web-based service that lets consumers monitor their home energy consumption and rates in real-time and get related energy information. The real time monitoring service is currently available with a small handful of energy partners who use smart meters, including Sacramento’s Municipal Utility District, City Light Seattle, Puget Sound Energy, [...]

The seedbomb is the new warfare against deforestation. Seedbombs, which are comprised of compressed clod of soil containing live vegetation that may be thrown or dropped onto arid soils, introduces vegetation to the otherwise inhospitable land. The seeds are housed inside capsules made of artificial soil: they provide nourishment and moisture to the seed. As [...]

Seven astronauts boarded the shuttle today, led by Cdr. Scott Altman at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center this afternoon. Despite one warning signal right after liftoff, they safely reached orbit within eight minutes and are cruising space at more than 17,200 miles per hour. The desination is the Hubble Space Telescope, whose batteries, cameras and gyroscopes [...]

VANCOUVER, Canada —  the home city of the 2010 winter Olympics and what the city’s mayor hopes will become the world’s greenest city, hosted Western Canada’s only green consumer tradeshow and eco-marketplace this weekend. Yes, the city which serves as home base to the Ninja Network became a hub of green living excitement when more [...]

People are always trying to find different ways to green up their households and save some money in the process.  One area that gets used the most and ironically can be overlooked the most is the bathroom, more specifically the toilet.  A traditional toilet uses around 2.9 gallons (10.9 Liters) per flush and High Efficiency [...]