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MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings

MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings

  What if generating solar energy at home required little more than mixing some grass clippings with inexpensive chemicals? That’s exactly what MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has found to be

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Nissan Unveils World’s First Self-Healing iPhone Case

Nissan Unveils World’s First Self-Healing iPhone Case

Nissan envisions a world where you’ll only have to buy one iPhone case for the life of your precious device – and they just launched the world’s first self-healing iPhone case to bring

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Bridgestone’s New Air-Free Tires are 100% Recyclable

Bridgestone’s New Air-Free Tires are 100% Recyclable

Highway blowouts and Fix-A-Flat could soon be things of the past. Following the trend started by Michelin with the Tweel, Bridgestone recently unveiled an airless tire of its own at the Tokyo Motor Show.

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Scotland to Build Two-Blade Offshore Wind Turbine with Helicopter Landing Pad

Scotland to Build Two-Blade Offshore Wind Turbine with Helicopter Landing Pad

A unique, two-blade wind turbine that features a helicopter landing pad will soon be rising off the eastern coast of Scotland. Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing announced this week that the Scottish

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Apple Unveils New iPhone 4S Instead of iPhone 5 – Is It Green?

Apple Unveils New iPhone 4S Instead of iPhone 5 – Is It Green?

Apple CEO Tim Cook just officially unveiled the iPhone 4S – instead of the much-anticipated iPhone 5 – at today’s live keynote in Cupertino – and although the next-generation

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How Green is Apple?: A Half-Bitten Look at the Past Decade

How Green is Apple?: A Half-Bitten Look at the Past Decade

Computer giant Apple doesn’t have the best record when it comes to being green. Known for using hazardous materials, dodging questions about sustainability, and contributing to an ever-growing pile

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ASK A TECH GEEK: What Are Some Easy Ways to Reduce My Laptop’s Energy Consumption?

ASK A TECH GEEK: What Are Some Easy Ways to Reduce My Laptop’s Energy Consumption?

Each week renowned gadget expert Peter Rojas from gadget Q&A site GDGT.com answers your questions about green technology in our Ask A Tech Geek Series. Read on for this week’s installment and

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ASK A TECH GEEK: How Wasteful is it to Keep My Chargers Plugged in When Not Connected to Their Devices?

ASK A TECH GEEK: How Wasteful is it to Keep My Chargers Plugged in When Not Connected to Their Devices?

Each week renowned gadget expert Peter Rojas from gadget Q&A site GDGT.com answers your questions about green technology in our Ask A Tech Geek Series. Read on for this week’s installment and submit

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Submit a Question To the Ask a Tech Geek Advice Column with Peter Rojas & Get a Free Shirt!

Submit a Question To the Ask a Tech Geek Advice Column with Peter Rojas & Get a Free Shirt!

How can I recycle my old cell phone? What’s the best solar powered gadget charger on the market? If you’ve ever wondered about the answers to these or any other green gadget questions,

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ASK A TECH GEEK: Is It Better to Keep My Laptop in Sleep Mode or to Shut it Off?

ASK A TECH GEEK: Is It Better to Keep My Laptop in Sleep Mode or to Shut it Off?

Each week renowned gadget expert Peter Rojas from gadget Q&A site GDGT.com answers your questions about green technology in our Ask A Tech Geek Series. Read on for this week’s installment and

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ASK A TECH GEEK: How Can I Recycle Old Cables & Chargers?

ASK A TECH GEEK: How Can I Recycle Old Cables & Chargers?

Each week renowned gadget expert Peter Rojas from gadget Q&A site GDGT.com answers your questions about green technology in our Ask A Tech Geek Series. Read on for this week’s installment and

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Joon&Jung Handcrafts Beautiful Speakers from Ceramic and Stacked Twigs

Joon&Jung Handcrafts Beautiful Speakers from Ceramic and Stacked Twigs

If you love music, you know that a set of good speakers is essential to maximizing any listening experience. And for those who cherish a fine aesthetic just the same, you’re sure to fall in love

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SAE World Congress Goes Green: Alternative Fuels, EV Tech, and Award for Chevy Volt

SAE World Congress Goes Green: Alternative Fuels, EV Tech, and Award for Chevy Volt

This year’s SAE World Congress in Detroit has gone green, honoring the design of electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt and focusing on technologies that bring better efficiencies to new and

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Top 5 Greenest Gadgets from CES 2011

Top 5 Greenest Gadgets from CES 2011

The  Consumer Electronics Show has been going strong the last few years, bringing countless technology enthusiasts and a boundless amount of energy to the fabulous city of Las Vegas. Always full of

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Is Data-Visualization the Next Big Thing in Going Green?

Is Data-Visualization the Next Big Thing in Going Green?

Even if you’re eco-minded, you might often find yourself breaking some of the golden rules of sustainable living – lengthy hot showers and gas guzzling vehicles anyone? But how do you keep bad

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Is Data Visualization the Next Big Thing for Green Tech Companies?

Is Data Visualization the Next Big Thing for Green Tech Companies?

By now, most of us know that driving gas-guzzling cars, leaving your lights on all day and taking hour-long showers are activities that have a negative impact on our Earth and our future. But while this

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The Week in Green Tech: Tesla IPO, Suntrough & Cisco

The Week in Green Tech: Tesla IPO, Suntrough & Cisco

Electric car startup Tesla debuted on the public markets this week, raised $226 million for the company, gave the future of green cars a boost, and saw its share leap over 40 percent on the first day of

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How Technology Can Help You Green Your Garden

How Technology Can Help You Green Your Garden

Wanna flex that green thumb this summer? Why not get some help from the latest iPhone apps, online tools, and gadgets designed to help gardeners up their growing game? Check out all of our top picks for

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The Week In Greentech: TerraPower, Tesla, & Afghan Lithium

The Week In Greentech: TerraPower, Tesla, & Afghan Lithium

Bill Gates isn’t the only Microsoft exec to focus on energy innovation. About a decade ago Microsoft Chief Strategist and Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold left the software giant to found

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LG Display and iriver Announce $5 Million Partnership to Produce e Readers

LG Display and iriver Announce $5 Million Partnership to Produce e Readers

We’ve been following developments in e readers from the iPad to Sony’s new paperless platform, and now two more major players have entered the game. LG Display and iriver recently announced

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Green Tech News from Earth2Tech: Zipcar IPO, Sex.com & GM’s VC Arm

Green Tech News from Earth2Tech: Zipcar IPO, Sex.com & GM’s VC Arm

The car sharing heavyweight Zipcar filed for an IPO this week, looking to raise $75 million. With a fleet of 7,000 vehicles, more than 400,000 members (who can rent the car by the hour or day), Zipcar

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Green:Net: How the Internet, Computing Can Fight Climate Change

Green:Net: How the Internet, Computing Can Fight Climate Change

The Internet, software, computing and networks can fight climate change and will be a source for green technology innovation. That’s the premise behind Earth2Tech and GigaOM’s second annual

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IS IT GREEN?: The Apple iPad

IS IT GREEN?: The Apple iPad

Unless you’ve been living in a cave the past few weeks, you probably know about Apple‘s new iPad, which was just unveiled moments ago. We’re excited for the iPad’s release, but we

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Development Shines Light on Solar Energy Generating Plastics

Development Shines Light on Solar Energy Generating Plastics

Plastic sure has gotten a bad rap lately — it takes petroleum to produce it, most kinds are notoriously difficult to recycle and it can leach harmful chemicals like BPA. But that hasn’t

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Inhabitat Blog Picks of the Week

Inhabitat Blog Picks of the Week

The new year is the perfect time to reflect on some of the crazy and exciting accomplishments of the past year– and to think about the future. As you might have noticed this past week, we’ve

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SELSAM SUPERTURBINES: Flying wind-turbines for max power

SELSAM SUPERTURBINES: Flying wind-turbines for max power

The higher up in the air you go, the faster wind travels – so naturally the further from the ground a wind-turbines gets, the more efficient it can be. Thats why the idea of a flying wind-turbine is

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