I just installed the Greenbar toolbar and have got to say it’s a great green idea.

Once downloaded and installed this handy little toolbar takes all the effort out of hunting for green blogs, websites, and feeds while also giving you instant access to your Facebook page, Twitter account and tons of handy little apps and gadgets – all nicely arranged in a toolbar in your web browser.

The good people at Greenbar have filtered through the infinite deluge of various green blogs and websites and come up with quality links that have been neatly categorized and easily accessed.

Greenbar is a free application and is usable with Firefox and Explorer. Test it out yourself and let us know what you think. Are we the only ones scratching our heads wondering why we hadn’t heard of this thing earlier?

If the new Apple laptop could talk it would be screaming from the nearest rooftop because Apple REALLY wants you to know that their latest is “the greenest MacBook ever!!”

Well, actually, hanging on to your current laptop is even greener. That’s what I’ll be doing.

The eco-specs on this MacBook are the following: The new MacBook’s main frame is cut out of a single piece of aluminum, and the discarded metal is recycled. It shows up to stores in 41 percent less packaging than the last generation, and can be returned to Apple for recycling at the end of its life. Like other Apple ‘puters, the new MacBook has arsenic-free glass, is backlit with energy-efficient LEDs, and contains no mercury, brominated flame retardants, or PVC. Need more information? Feel free to read the MacBook Environmental Report.

Apple is all over the green tech these days, since they have been a favorite target of Greenpeace in the past for having non eco-friendly products. Steve Jobs has made claims that he will clean almost all toxic materials from all of Apple’s hardware by the end of 2008. We’ll see.