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 an average [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Here’s the latest eco-video from our good friends at Grist. OK, we aren’t really friends so much as acquaintances. And by acquaintances I mean we’re rabid fans who stalk Grist staff and have a holy shrine with all their pictures on it.
Their latest video is a quick and sassy look at why and how to [...]

On Wednesday Stockholm Water Prize was awarded to Bindeshwar Pathak for his work developing eco-friendly and inexpensive toilets to bolster public health.
Pathak, a sanitation expert who founded the Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India in 1970, has worked “to improve public health, advance social progress and improve human rights in India and other countries,” stated the [...]

Panasonic has just released details on its upcoming home compost machine which will be sold in Japan in late April.
The home compost machine actually breaks down organic garbage in only a few hours. Adding to the cool factor is the ability to set a moisture level for your end product depending on your needs. Looking [...]

HP and Boston Power have just released their new Enviro Series notebook battery. The environmentally-friendly laptop battery battery has a steep price at $150. Will people cough a little extra dough on behalf of the environment in the current economic climate? HP seems to be is betting they will.
But based on the HP Enviro battery [...]

One of the main obstacles in getting the general population to embrace electric cars is that because of the length of time it takes to charge a battery, long trips are impossible unless you pull over and take a five hour break every 100 miles or so.
Thanks to a recent breakthrough at MIT, we will [...]

To reduce draughts year-round, Black & Decker has created a pretty cool gadget they call a Thermal Leak and Draught Detector. Using infrared sensors to pinpoint the source, a simple color-coded light tells you where the cold spots are in your home, and points to where there might be flaws or holes in your insulation. [...]

Among the many wonderful things to come out of this year’s Greener Gadget Conference was the Greener Gadget Design Competition.
Fifty green gadgets were voted for online and live at the conference to come up with a winner, the Tweet-a-Watt.
The Tweet-a-Watt works like a Kill-a-Watt except that it’s also rigged to broadcast your energy usage over [...]