Consumer
Solar Powered Backpacks
One of our favorite greener trends is portable sustainability. An incredibly practical (not to mention cool) product that is available online and in stores around the world is the Solar Backpack, part of the line of solar powered bags from Voltaic Systems. At first glance, the line of solar powered bags look like your typical [...]
Green Toys
With the holidays coming up, parents are starting to wonder what the next big thing is for their kids this year for Christmas. One company stands out to us, and that is Green Toys Inc. This is a company that sells toys for children that are made from 100% recycled plastic milk bottles and other [...]
Living Green with Home Composting
With living green on my mind, I am always looking for new ways to change my lifestyle so that I can have a more positive influence on the environment. An easy and convenient way to reduce trash at home is to start home composting. This sounds like a great idea, all it takes is a [...]
Slow Food: Food that is Good, Clean, & Fair
I was recently introduced to the Slow Food Movement, a cool greener trend that I had never heard of. Have you? Well, to crib heavily from the slowfoodusa.org website, Slow Food is a way of living and eating that links food to the community and the environment. The name is a bit of a dig [...]
Daily Tip: Water Bottles and Tap Water
I coach a high school sports team and noticed the other day how quickly our facility gets trashed with empty Zephyr Hills and Aquafina bottles after just a couple of practices. We’re one of the better teams at our club because we actually have a bin for recyclables (unlike some of the other teams that [...]
Talking Plants
Some NYU students came up with a new business that allows your plants to call you when they need water or more sunlight. Botanicalls.com will provide you with your sensors for your plants, and then will provide you with personal, and hilarious, pre-recorded calls from your plants when the sensor tells it to. [...]
This Car Will Get You Serious Chicks
What’s battery operated, makes virtually no noise, has major sex appeal, does 0-60 in four seconds, and costs US$108,000? That’s right, it’s one of the most eco-friendly cars around, the Tesla Roadster. In case you hadn’t heard, the Roadster is the first fully electric two-seater from Tesla Motors, a San Carlo, California startup owned by [...]
Planet: Green Cleaning Products
Shopping at my local grocery store usually proves to be a time of endless label reading frustration. I can’t find products that are easily identifiable as eco-friendly, and this is never truer then when I am attempting to find cleaning products. Luckily, and I have to say to my utter shock and amazement, my grocer [...]
Batteries…to go!
I absolutely hate it when I’m on vacation, taking pictures, and my camera starts to beep at me that I’m running out of batteries. I always mean to carry extras with me, but somehow between packing the rest of my crazy electronics (cell phone, laptop, ipod), and my clothes, I never remember. Well today I [...]
