The theme of China’s annual National People’s Congress taking place this week – the proceedings of which remain highly secretive beforehand – has been largely an economic one. Although the environment is hardly the priority issue du jour, China has not entirely changed its course with re...

Wondering who’s news and who’s so last year? TreeHugger’s 2008 Eco-Matrix is here to inform and entertain. If you’ve been pondering whether Al Gore is in or out, whether ethanol is still a worthy news item, or which green celebs have fallen on hard times, just click through for our handy che...

I started this month as the new damn PC guy and ended it by buying a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 in one of the Black Friday deals though I wish I had won a PC in a giveaway. I had been opinionated about using push buttons and organizing program files, worried about the rising types of blog fraud and spam ...

E-waste recycling is a multi-billion dollar market today. We have fallen into the mindset of accepting that replacement is cheaper than repair, at least for electronic goods. That means, we get rid of our computer equipment more often than we used to. This is a difficult task mentally and environmen...

People in the West enjoy their technological gadgets and new technology appears at a relentless pace. Thus, it is hardly surprising that there is an ongoing replacement of older technology by newer items. Mobile phone users generally switch to a new phone every 18 months. People update their compute...

Intel further detailed plans for its Atom processor at this year's Computex. The company is expecting the processor to create a whole new set of computers dubbed "netbooks" and "nettops," low-power systems that are primarily used for internet and other basic functions such as listening to music and ...

In an effort to improve electronics recycling in the United States, the U.S. Postal Service is developing a free national collection program for small electronic items. The program, now in a pilot stage, provides courtesy envelopes with pre-paid postage for patrons to deposit their unwanted digital ...

Somyamathur: Highway 101 in the Silicon Valley, San Jose, California will never look the same again. Towering above every driver’s head is the constant reminder that you better not let the e-waste harm mother earth! Courtsey Arnold Advertising, a giant billboard has been mounted for the compan...

O Centro de Computação Eletrônica (CCE) da USP contará com o apoio de participantes do S-Lab (Laboratório de Sustentabilidade) da Sloan School do Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), nos EUA, para o desenvolvimento de um Plano para a Cadeia de Transformação de Resíduos de Informátic...

The wheels might turn slowly but they get to where they are going, eventually. Three years ago we reported that New York was contemplating the toughest laws in the nation on electronics waste. Today the City Council was to vote on what they call “trailblazing environmental legislation� to make m...