Tag: GREEN LIVING

Usually, you have to hop on a plane for Japan -- or at the very least, find a savvy importer -- to get your hands on the best new gadgets around, but to land a Copenhagen Wheel, you won't have to go quite as far. Unveiled yesterday by a team of MIT students at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the aptly named Copenhagen Wheel is aimed at city cyclists ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/09/13/new-york-family-gives-up-ac-tv-or-electricity-for-a-whole-y/'; In 2006, New York writer Colin Beavan decided that completely unplugging and living a green, eco-friendly Manhattan existence for an entire year could provide excellent inspiration for a book. Now that his 'No Impact Man' project has drawn to a close, Beavan and his wife, Michelle ...

As the "going green" movement gains momentum and popularity, more and more stories about bigger and "greener" structures pervade the mainstream media. Frank McKinney's new mansion in Manalapan, Florida is the latest green-du-jour to make the rounds on the news networks. McKinney, a real estate tycoon and best selling novelist, built the 15,000-square-foot, Polynesian-inspired, three-story ...

In-home power consumption monitors are trendy pieces of kit lately, with a new one popping up every few months. But, while they're all happy to just kick back and tell you what a wasteful pig you're being, a new service from UK security company AlertMe could actually make you more efficient. Subscribers to the company's monitoring plans, which start at about $260 plus another $17.50/month, will ...