Tag Archives: eco
Top 50 College Student Eco-Crimes
Here is a list of 50 Common Eco-Crimes Committed By College Students from “Best Colleges Online.” Boiling unnecessary water: Overfilling your teakettle or boiling without a lid wastes energy and takes more time to get going. Buying new books: Instead of buying new books, it’s more eco-friendly to buy used ones, or even rent or check [...]
10 Things North Carolina is Doing to be Greener
In August of 2007, North Carolina because the first Southeastern state in the United States to adopt the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard. In this, all investor- owned North Carolinian utilities are mandated to meet a minimum of 12.5 percent of their energy requirements via renewable energy resources and/or measures of energy efficiency. [...]
The “Start and the Electric Eco-Car Spectacular” Party
The Prince of Wales is hosting a 12 day party called "Start: A Garden Party to Make a Difference." The goal of the event is to help celebrate and promote sustainableissues. It is taking place in central London, and runs until September19. The Garden Party combines exhibitions, interactive displays,activities and live performances from speakers, musicians [...]
Powered by Nano Generators: The Colibri Eco Mobile Phone
The Colibri Eco Mobile Phone by Nelly Trakidou takes cellphonetechnology to the extreme. The designer has visualized a mobile phoneconcept that would require no external power source to operate. Havingsaid that, you can just imagine the amount of plastic chargers it wouldhelp us get rid of. Anyway, the new concept phone uses an innovative and [...]
TSMC Starts Construction on New Eco-friendly Wafer Plant
Taiwanese chip maker TSMC has recentlystarted up on its newest project, a green one that too, with theconstruction of its third 300mm wafer plant. Now we aren’t talking about those oily potato chips and wafers, we’re going on about those greenchips you usually find in gadgets. Located in Taichung’s Central TaiwanScience Park, the new Fab [...]
The Solar Eco Ball Speaker System
Industrial designer Pedro Gomes is trying to better the experienceof your portable media player by designing a portable speaker set formusic lovers. The portable device, dubbed Eco Ball, features twospeakers that are connected together in the form of a ball. The speakers come with a carry belt that includes flexible photovoltaic cells toconvert solar energy [...]
Standards are Required to Combat Ecolabel and Eco-Certification
With the plethora of competing green claims it isimperative that we develop industry specific standards. It is becomingincreasingly important for consumers and institutional buyers to know if a product or service is truly green. Producers use ecolabels and eco-certification to validate green claims, guide green purchasing, and improve environmental performance standards. According to a 2007 [...]
Integrative Approach to Eco-Innovation
Eco-innovation offers an increasingly important competitive advantage and an integrative approach toeco-innovation often yields the best results The termeco-innovation is used to describe products and processes thatcontribute to sustainable development. Eco-innovation is the commercialapplication of knowledge to elicit direct or indirect ecologicalimprovements. It is often used to describe a range of related ideas,from environmentally friendly [...]
Eco Cars We Will Be Driving in 2050
The decline in the levels of fossil fuel sources and the rise ingreenhouse gas emissions caused due to transport are the main reasonsdriving the thought of eco-friendly cars. Whenever eco-friendly cars are imagined, vehicles fueled by electricity are first to hit the mind.These vehicles don’t pollute the streets and, as an added advantage,they’re noise-free as [...]