Archive for the ‘Science & Technology’ Category

• EfficienCity – The sustainable future of cities?

  Are you interested in how a sustainable city could look like? Just take a look at the EfficienCity! EfficienCity is a city built and governed by Greenpeace. The city shows, with text, images and video how a sustainable city it’s …

• Ericsson’s greener cell tower

  The cell phone towers are in today’s society a valuable service and you can pretty much find a tower anywhere you go. Yet they look like trash and people can go into legal battles if a company tries to put …

• The new MacBook Air from Apple

  The MacBook Air is Apple’s latest work of art. It’s slim and looks awesome. But what about the laptops green credentials then? Is it greener than the iMac?

• This year Dell will be the first company to go carbon neutral

  This year Dell, the computer maker, will be 100% carbon neutral. They will become carbon neutral by buying carbon reductions. While it’s not the best way to go green it is the fastest and simplest way at the moment. You …

• 3110 Evolve: Nokia’s eco-friendly phone

  Nokia recently released its brand new 3110 Evolve. It’s a new, greener, phone from Nokia (maybe they wanted to impress Greenpeace?). The new phone uses “bio-covers” that, are said, to be made from over 50% renewable material. It also uses …

• Caviar GreenPower 500GB hard drive

  It wasn’t long ago since Western Digital teamed up with Kanguru in marketing a green hard drive for consumers and businesses. Now Western Digital is releasing a 500GB “green” hard drive that uses 30 percent less power than other hard …

• Nokia loses its top spot in the Greener Electronics Guide from Greenpeace

  Today Greenpeace released its latest version of their Guide to Greener Electronics. In this version they added TV and game console makers. Before we check out the changes from last version lets see how some of the newly added companies …

• First PC to reach Energy Star 4.0 requirements

  Dell is the first PC manufacturer to achieve Energy Star 4.0 requirements with its new Inspiron 531. Some of its features are a 80% efficient power supply and a paperless owners manual. The computer is also pre-programmed to switch to …

• Post A Phone

  Post A Phone is a 4mm thick phone made out of recyclable card or plastic. It is designed by Priestman Goode and I love it. The Post A Phone is intended to be a backup phone when all your other …

• DecTop – Small, Green and Cheap

  Here is a neat little green computer called DecTop. The computer runs on only 8 watts. Yes, you heard right and yes, 8 watts is nothing! You can compare that with my CPU processor who needs around 45 watts to …