Tag: ENVIRONMENT

What's the number one problem plaguing today's youth? Drugs? Please. Sexting? Psh. Justin Bieber? Close, but no. It's paper, you guys. In today's e-mail and SMS-dominated age, kids have simply lost touch with the core American values of good penmanship and environmental recklessness. And that's why the altruists at the Domtar paper company have taken it upon themselves to launch a new awareness ...

Don't look now, but soon HP could know about every move you make. According to CNN, HP will start depositing "smart dust" around the globe in the next two years. The term was coined in the 1990s by UC Berkeley researcher Kris Pister, who envisioned "smart dust" spreading rice-grain sized sensors across the Earth (think a more mobile version of Helen Hunt's tornado trackers in 'Twister'). These ...

Share As the fallout from last week's oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico continues to ooze its way toward land, the cries of anger echoing throughout the social media stratosphere have only intensified. The principal target of the online rage is BP, which has been disparaged in thousands of posts across Facebook and Twitter. The company, which owns the Deepwater Horizon rig that sank on ...

A British man has patched together a Frankenstein car that's just as green as the monster itself. According to The Daily Mail, Buzz Knapp-Fisher's 'Womble Truck,' named after a kid's TV show about recycling, is made from the parts of 21 different vehicles, and runs entirely on french fry fat and vegetable oil. Knapp-Fisher, a sculptor and environmentalist, purchased the original wrecked frame for ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. It almost feels ...

You might not know it, but it's National Cell Phone Recycling Week. From April 5th through 11th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging consumers to recycle all those old cell phones that are just laying around the house. According to NPR, Americans toss out about 130 million cell phones every year. Now, there are some intrepid folks out there fighting the battle against e-waste, ...

At just 16-years old, Rhode Island teen Alex Lin has leaped to the forefront of the e-waste dilemma. According to Take Part, Lin has overseen the recycling of more than 300,000 pounds of discarded electronics through legislation, recycling programs, computer-refurbishing centers and plain old hard work. We've told you before about the mounting problem of disposing old computers, cell phones and ...

Everybody's favorite vice president and climate-change decrier Al Gore is asking YouTube users for some help this month. According to Mashable, Gore and his organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, are asking people to create videos that both describe the importance of going "green" and urge political leaders to change current climate policies. On Earth Day, which falls on April 22nd, ...

Share After a Greenpeace report accused Nestle of importing palm oil from suppliers who are destroying the Indonesian rainforests that are home to endangered orangutans, a bevy of angry consumers flocked to the candy maker's Facebook page. Apparently dissatisfied with Nestle's tepid public defense of its palm oil policy, environmentally conscious users flooded the page with vitriolic comments ...

What happens to your old electronic device when you upgrade to a newer model? Do you dump your cell phone in the trash? Toss that old desktop into a dumpster? Many people do, but they don't consider where this waste eventually ends up. According to BBC News, much of this "e-waste" finds its way to developing nations, and it could lead to major problems in the future. A U.N. report stated that ...

As many city-dwellers know, it's hard to scrap together even a few seconds of cell phone service in underground metros or subways. But a student barely old enough to drive has just invented a new device that can send text messages from well below the surface. Los Alamos, New Mexico's 16-year old Alexander Kendrick won the 2009 International Science Fair for developing a cave radio device that ...

Although spring is still months away, it's never too early to get a head start on cleaning out some junk. If you're like us, you could probably fill a closet with old gadgets. It might be tempting to simply toss them in the trash, but that's not your only option. Why not recycle them? It's a lot easier than you think, if you know where to look. Doing the hard part for us, Endadget has put together ...

The economic slump has been tough on all kinds of businesses, even whorehouses. When money is tight, it looks like paying for sex is one of those extras people just can't afford. But one brothel in Berlin isn't taking this news lying down (Excuse the pun). According to The Associated Press, Maison d'Envie, or House of Desire, is giving a $7.50 (5€) discount to all customers who either ride a ...

Recycling cell phones eliminates tons of waste and saves valuable components. For various reasons, though, most people still toss their old phones into the trash or keep them squirreled away in a forgotten drawer or nook. In a true "Why didn't I think of that?" development, ecoATM recently unveiled its first credit-for-phone recycling kiosk (with more to follow) in a Nebraska store. To take ...

While it won't make you look like the toughest guy on two wheels, a new custom motorcycle from the notoriously horsepower-heavy Orange County Choppers will be a little better for the environment. According to Wired, the Smart Chopper is the world's first custom-built electric motorcycle. Commissioned by electronics giant Siemens as a way to flaunt their 'environmental awareness', the bike ...