Green Your Nokia Cell Phone with Energy-Saving GreenPhone App

Cell phones can use a lot of energy to run applications like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. But they don't have to. A new app for Nokia Series 60 phones can help control energy usage, making them more efficient and reducing your carbon footprint.

The app, called GreenPhone, monitors your phone usage and lets you know when you can turn off features that you're not using, but which are sucking power out of your battery. These include the backlight, Bluetooth and WLAN features.

GreenPhone also helps inform you when your phone is done charging so you can unplug it, since mobile-device chargers tend...

Coolerado Air Conditioner Wins Renewable Energy Award

Demonstrates Possibility of Solar-Powered Air Conditioning

Ready for a new idea in air conditioning? A company called Coolerado says it sells the world's most efficient air conditioners. The governor of Colorado recently presented the company with the state's Governor’s Excellence in Renewable Energy Award for 2008.

I'll let Coolerado CEO Mike Luby tell the story:

Our units work on an amazingly small amount of power…about 600 watts, which is about a third of the power of a hair...

A Blow to Cell Phone Recycling? Recycled Phones Found to Still Have Your Data

Follow These Tips to Wipe Your Data Clean Before Donating Your Old Phones

Hundreds of thousands of new cell phones are sold every year. Most of them go to replace older phones, which can end up being donated, refurbished and resold, thereby keeping them out of landfills and extending their life cycles.

But now comes word that, in a study of 2,000 recycled phones, a shocking 99% of them still had some amount of private data stored in their memory. This even included personal...

Got a Blog or Web Page? Make it Greener with the Eco-Safe Merit Badge

Plus, Get Free Apple iTunes Downloads for Installing Eco-Safe!

If you have a blog or a web site, you can now help people use it in a greener manner by installing the Eco-Safe Merit Badge. This free widget encourages your site visitors to not print your content, but to use electronic tools to save or distribute it.

The Eco-Safe Merit Badge allows your readers to turn your web page into a saveable PDF or email it to themselves as text....

Fight Global Warming While You Surf the Web

How many times do you search the Internet every day? Five? Ten? Twenty? Two hundred?

What if every time you searched, you could do a little bit of good for the environment? Does that sound like something you'd like to try?

Well then, download and install the free Environmental Defense Fund Toolbar (for Firefox or Internet Explorer). Once this toolbar is installed on your browser, use it to search the Web...

AT&T's U-verse TV Gets Green Certification

Set-top Boxes Use Less Electricity, Save Customers Money

Subscribers to AT&T's U-verse digital TV service got good news this week: all of AT&T's set-top boxes (the devices that empower the Internet-based TV service) exceed the energy requirements of the U.S.'s ENERGY STAR program, meaning they use less electricity than competing products and therefore save subscribers a few bucks a year.

The news comes with the announcement that all new U-verse set-top boxes will officially carry the ENERGY STAR logo....

Ritz Camera Introduces 100% Recyclable Rechargeable Battery

Looking for a better rechargeable battery? Ritz Camera has started selling what it calls "the first rechargeable battery that's nearly 100% recyclable and completely non-toxic and non-combustible." It's called the Quantaray Super Z, and it represents a pretty nice step forward in rechargeable technology.

The Quantaray Super Z rechargeable battery, manufactured by PowerGenix, uses a Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) battery chemistry that has already earned certification from both RoHS and Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation...