In 2009, I wrote an article about the top 10 green cell phones manufactured or conceptualized that year. Included in that list was a concept phone called Zeri which can “convert air vibrations into usable power through hair-thin generators on piezoelectric system.”

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Disposable diapers are among the nastiest consumer products out there – they take something like 500 years to fully break down once deposited in landfills. In the United States, about 27.4 billion diapers are used every year translating to 3.4 million tons of nappies being dumped in our landfills annually. How do you get rid [...]

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After almost a year since the city started accepting bids from nonprofit organizations to supply and maintain textile recycling bins to the city for the purpose of textile recycling, the program called RefashioNYC is finally making a debut in New York City.

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I have two small boys so I’m quite familiar with toy manufacturers in the U.S. Well, Toys “R” Us has just given me one more reason to buy from them. The distribution facility of this giant toy store chain in Wayne, New Jersey is scheduled to be retrofitted with what could be the largest solar [...]

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President Obama checking out a Chevrolet Volt last summer.
The US government is the world’s single largest buyer of vehicles, purchasing 60,000 new units every year. It is also the biggest consumer of oil in the world.

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On May 29th, the largest wind energy conference in the United States will open in Anaheim, California with an estimated 20,000 participants. In 2007, a similar conference drew 5,000 participants. At the time, the cumulative U.S. installed wind capacity was 17 gigawatts. Today, the sector accounts for 2.3 percent of the country’s total energy capacity [...]

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The New York Times recently published a list compiled by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) of the top 10 states with the highest aggregate solar capacity in the United States as of last year (2010). Here’s the entire list:

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Last month, we celebrated the National Cell Phone Recycling Week here in the U.S. It’s an activity that’s designed to remind us of how important cell phone recycling is and how easy it is to recycle your old or used cell phones.

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“People begin to see that this is not garbage, this plastic waste, this bottle cap, the lunch container is oil. So when a child understands this, the garbage gets cleaned up. People don’t know that the garbage is oil, that’s why they’re throwing it away. If they know it becomes oil, then they collect it. [...]

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