Sustainable Ideas
A Blow to Cell Phone Recycling? Recycled Phones Found to Still Have Your Data February 3rd, 2009
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...more
Got a Blog or Web Page? Make it Greener with the Eco-Safe Merit Badge January 30th, 2009
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...more
Fight Global Warming While You Surf the Web January 29th, 2009
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...more
AT&T's U-verse TV Gets Green Certification January 27th, 2009
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,...more
Ritz Camera Introduces 100% Recyclable Rechargeable Battery January 23rd, 2009
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...more
Go Green-Save Green: Save $180 On Your Heating and Cooling Bill January 20th, 2009
By Susan Seliger The headlines in newspapers and blogs from coast to coast confirm what we can all feel in our pockets – Americans are digging deep to save money. Well, dig no more — going...more
Drive Smarter, Greener with ecoRoute from Garmin January 20th, 2009
Free Program Helps Select Fuel-Efficient Routes
If you own a Garmin GPS unit, and you're looking to make your driving just a little bit greener, then the company has something just for you. Their new ecoRoute program -- announced recently at the...more
Eco-Friendly Batteries? January 16th, 2009
Fuji Launches 'Landfill Safe' Disposable Batteries
At last week's Consumer Electronics Show, Fuji announced a new line of disposable batteries that the company says are so eco-friendly, they are "landfill safe." The Fuji EnviroMAX batteries are free of cadmium, mercury and PVC,...more
GreenTech 101: WaterSense Helps You Save Water January 15th, 2009
Every product that claims to be green seems to come with a half-dozen logos on the package to back up their eco-claims. But what do they all mean? Well don't worry, we're going to tell...more
