In rural Africa, electricity is hard to come by. That's why Dr. Cedrick Ngalande has developed the Green Erg Generator—a dynamo that produces electricity from friction generated with the ground......

Consumers are now welcome to drop off their old or broken gadgets at any Best Buy store for recycling. Launched Tuesday, the program accepts most electronics, including TVs, computers and DVD players. A few restrictions apply: Best Buy is not accepting hard drives, electronics containing Freon, appl...

by Cristina Foung My favorite green product of the week: the EarthLED ZetaLux 7 Watt LED What is it? The EarthLED ZetaLux is a 7 watt LED light bulb. With a standard medium base, the bulb is a replacement for any incandescent light bulb. EarthLED estimates that it will cost as little as $2.00 to run...

IBM is becoming gradually more involved in the world of clean tech, so it's not surprising that their third annual "IBM Next Five in Five" includes a mention of solar power.  The list includes five innovations that will change the way people work, live, and play over the next five yea...

So everyone these days is jumping on the electric vehicle bandwagon like there is no tomorrow, just as they all jumped on the biofuel horseless cart before it. With car makers staking their literal futures on it; like Chevy’s Volt, to just about any other car maker. The newest one to join the ...

Much like Gordon Moore’s chart that predicted chip performance, this Deutsche Bank chart and reflects Wall Street’s predictions for solar/electricity costs.  There are about 80 known solar manufactures, all scurrying to increase capacity and drive down cost.  Plus, who knows how many stealth m...

I just read a nice piece in Fortune, Kleiner Bets the Farm. The article describes Kleiner’s big move into alternative energy. And this move comes at the expense of investments in new Web 2.0 companies. Kleiner’s halting investments in Web 2.0 generated quite a discussion last November. T...

OK, you gotta love this one. The lovely Dvorak Uncensored pointed me to this article in the Telegraph about scientists strapping a big air bag to cows to see how much methane they excrete. Methane is a greenhouse gas, too, you know. Scientists are examining cow farts and burps in a novel bid to comb...

The New York Times reports on a new, more environmentally friendly milk bottle being offered by Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and Costco. They're easier to clean, using 60% less water. They can be stacked more efficiently without crates, saving fuel used by delivery trucks. They also keep milk fresher, cost ...

At this very moment, ElectraTherm is releasing details of the successful installation of its new product, a commercial waste heat generator called the Green Machine.  ElectraTherm tested their first Green Machine at none other than my alma mater, Southern Methodist University, and the results e...