It’s not very often that two competitors team up for the good of the environment, but two of the best green mobile app developers have done just that. 3rdWhale and Gen Green Life have decided they each offer great services that could benefit the other’s apps, and that together they [...]

Have you been finding it difficult to teach your kids to turn the lights off when they leave the room? Or have they been leaving the computer on all night and wasting energy when you’re not around? If so, don’t be too hard on yourself – or the kids. There’s [...]

Not that we should ever hope to find ourselves in the dystopian future portrayed in Pixar’s Academy-Award winning film, Wall-E, but just in case we do some Italian scientists have made the robots to clean up the Earth once we’re long gone. Not that we should ever hope to find [...]

Attention iPhone/iPod Touch users: there’s a new application in the iTunes App Store called 3rdWhale, and along with doing everything it did before (super detailed green business directory), now it also has a feature called “Creative Solutions”, which features daily tips on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Attention [...]

Although there are undoubtedly handfuls of people who won’t believe it ’til they see it, the first ‘virtually waterless’ clothes washing machine has been invented, and is almost ready for public consumption.Although there are undoubtedly handfuls of people who won’t believe it ’til they see it, the first ‘virtually waterless’ [...]

How many times per week do you think to yourself, “just put the computer to sleep, I don’t want to bother booting it up in the morning”? Even if you don’t think that, there’s probably someone in your office that does. In fact, there are enough people who neglect to [...]

How green is your office? Do you recycle all of your paper? Do you avoid printing when you can? Well, if you’re doing all of that, then you might like these eco-friendly gadgets for your workplace, so that you can be even greener! How green is your office? Do you [...]

It’s a question none of us really want to ask because – let’s face it – gadgets are awesome, they make our lives easier, and to have them taken away now would make the day-to-day activities we’ve become accustomed to darn-near impossible. It’s a question none of us really want [...]

Just because you run a Mac and think you’re impervious to viruses, it doesn’t mean you’re impervious to energy wasting. Luckily, there’s 10 easy things you can do to minimize your computer’s energy usage. Just because you run a Mac and think you’re impervious to viruses, it doesn’t mean you’re [...]

Here’s a cool new web-app you should bookmark (or download for your iPhone or iPod) – a green business directory by 3rd Whale. Think of it as a green version of Yelp! – it lets you search green businesses in your area by postal code, name, or category, plus it [...]