The world of building has placed an onus on green solutions for building like never before and the advent of the green home is upon us at last. Future homes will offer a range of innovations that will mean they are significantly more energy efficient and vastly greener than the [...]

If you are looking to do your part in the fight to preserve our planet for the next generation, there are new ways popping up every day to help you go green. To help you in this goal, you’ll be glad to know there are a number of relevant phone [...]

As the consumer market for electronic products continues to grow, businesses continue to expand their storage and data retention requirements. Common devices have made high-definition video and photography made available to almost anyone, resulting in an endless growth in new data that must be stored and recorded for future access. [...]

Have you ever wondered what to do with your old cell phone? Many people just toss them in the trash, but there are a lot more things to do with a retired phone than throwing it away. Here are just a few ideas. Turn Your Phone into a Robot For [...]

With the yearly and occasionally twice-yearly barrage of new devices from cell phones to tablets to TVs, the environmental impact of older, seemingly obsolete devices is worrisome.  New devices are constantly and consistently released and manufacturers’ marketers have successfully created a lust culture around those devices.  People have made it [...]

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that you missed a major change in light bulb manufacturing as you danced beneath New Year’s Eve disco balls, toasted each other and sang “Auld Lang Syne.” Nevertheless, the traditional song could have been dedicated to 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. As of January 2013, [...]

A new billboard in Peru does more than advertise—it converts air into drinking water. A collaborative effort between Lima’s University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) and ad agency Mayo DraftFCB, the billboard aims to encourage more student applications. The side effect: The billboard has also produced 9,450 liters of clean water for local [...]

An interesting initiative from Dassault Systèmes, the “IF WE Challenge” campaign has collected ideas for a more sustainable society from all over the world. A competition was run across Facebook, Twitter and other social networking services that encouraged people to give their own thoughts about the future in under 140 [...]

Please consider the environment before not printing this page.  That request asking you to kindly not print your last email might have the best of intentions for our environment, but it fails to take into account a major factor which influences the “sustainability” of your decision; the internet.  Advice related [...]

Researchers at USC, , according to recently published research in Nano Research, have “developed a new lithium-ion battery design that uses porous silicon nanoparticles in place of the traditional graphite anodes to provide superior performance.” “It’s an exciting research. It opens the door for the design of the next generation lithium-ion batteries,” [...]