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 [...]
BEWARE of Greenwashing
Greenwashing is defined as misleading environmental ads which project to the public that the organization is green. In other words, they are the result of a marketing strategy to boost the organization’s image in the eyes of the public. As a result, these ads give the public a false impression of the corporation/politician/government/industry/non-government organization.
Brainwashing with [...]
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 [...]
Backyard Farmer
One of my favorite green entrepreneurial ideas is the personal gardening service. Let’s say you have a busy lifestyle, but you realize the pure goodness that is fresh produce which comes from your very own garden. The only problem is that neither you nor your significant other has the time required to cultivate and maintain [...]
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. [...]
We Add Up Is Totally Killer
I stumbled across the We Add Up campaign yesterday after reading this post on Treehugger. I had to give them some love. The idea is pretty simple: they sell organic cotton t-shirts emblazened with a green tip that anyone can do right now. These include turning your lights off, inflating your tires properly, car pooling, [...]
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 [...]
Solar Powered Vending Machines
Do you know why you never see vending machines at the beach or on the golf course? If you said because you can’t effectively get power to those places, then you are wrong (well, kind of anyway). Solar Energy Vending, Ltd. has developed a product that solves the location problem in the vending business, [...]
