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Jessica Alba's Honest Co Line Is Both Green and Affordable

Jessica Alba is officially going green – in fact, she has gone already. Just a few days ago, she launched the eco-friendly Honest Co line that includes anything from diapers to home and baby skincare products.In a new interview with the New York Daily News, the gorgeous actress explains how the idea for the lin...

24 January 2012
15:51 GMT

Makeup Tutorial – Go Green, Be Gorgeous

Andrea from Andrea's Choice blog, one of the most popular green beauty blogs out there, has just uploaded a brand new makeup tutorial. The best part of it is you can get an exquisite look with minimum impact on the planet. Check it out above, just in case you're interested in replicating that look. Andrea i...

20 January 2012
13:31 GMT

Cheaper Nissan Leaf Comes with Wireless Charging

Nissan Leaf manufacturers want to make sure a large segment of clients will have new reasons to think about purchasing an eco-friendly electric vehicle. Their smart strategy includes a lower price and a wireless charging option. Before the Tokyo Motor Show, the company has started bragging about its new green techn...

5 December 2011
02:25 GMT

Nokia Wants to Help Its Customers Recycle

Nokia is a company with a significant level of awareness regarding environmental issues. Therefore, the company manifested its concern related to its customers' recycling habits. Nokia is only one of the major enterprises that struggle to change the behavior of 91% of its clients, who don't seem very motiva...

19 October 2011
07:08 GMT

Samsung Restore Available at Virgin Mobile on April 18th

In addition to announcing the upcoming availability of the Samsung Replenish on its airwaves in early May, wireless carrier Sprint also announced the availability of Samsung Restore eco-friendly device on the airwaves of Virgin Mobile USA starting with April 18th. The mobile phone will cost only $79.99 (taxes and su...

16 April 2011
14:41 GMT

Samsung Replenish Lands at Sprint on May 8th for $49.99

Mobile phone carrier Sprint has just announced the launch of a new eco-friendly device on its airwaves, the Samsung Replenish, set to make an official appearance on its network as soon as May 8th, at a quite affordable price tag. According to the wireless carrier, the new device will become available for purchase fo...

16 April 2011
11:11 GMT

AMD Fusion APUs Reducing Carbon Footprint by Up to 40 Percent

Beside providing quite a good level of performance, as well as a high level of portability, AMD Fusion APU's are apparently also quite eco-friendly, a recent study by AMD reveals, managing to bring about a significant reduction in the carbon footprint of the computing systems built on this platform compared to m...

27 January 2011
05:48 GMT

Minimalist 4 iPhone 4 Case from TRTL BOT Doubles As Money Holder

Since most of the people who carry around an iPhone also have a rather serious wallet to go with (these things don't come cheap, after all), the people over at TRTL BOT have come up with a rather interesting iPhone 4 case design, that actually doubles as a money holder.Called the Minimalist 4, the case is marke...

1 December 2010
14:31 GMT

Motorola GRASP (WX404) Now Official

Mobile phone maker Motorola has recently made official on its airwaves a new handset, namely the Motorola GRASP, previously spotted into the wild as the WX404. The new device comes to the market with a QWERTY keypad, complemented by eco-friendly features, including a recyclable eco design and more. Moreover, the dev...

31 July 2010
07:25 GMT

Sprint Launches Samsung Seek

Wireless carrier Sprint recently announced the launch of a new affordable device on its airwaves, namely the Samsung Seek. According to the company, the new mobile phone comes to the market with great messaging capabilities in a compact form factor, while sporting a full-QWERTY slide-out keyboard, a touchscreen disp...

11 May 2010
05:47 GMT

Sprint Intros Eco-Friendly Samsung Restore

On Tuesday, Sprint and Samsung Mobile announced the launch of a new eco-friendly mobile phone, the Samsung Restore. The new handset is set to reinforce the duo's commitment to deliver green solutions to mobile phone users, while also including the Sprint One Click customizable user interface and providing users...

21 April 2010
06:09 GMT

Samsung Mobile Plans Recycling 1 Million Handsets in 2010

Samsung Mobile announced on Tuesday the launch of a new initiative in the United States, in an attempt to collect one million handsets for recycling during the ongoing year. According to the company, the eco-focused program, part of its March to a Million pledge, is set to reach a number of around seven million middl...

31 March 2010
11:03 GMT

Sprint Launches LG Remarq, a New Eco-Friendly Phone

Wireless carrier Sprint and LG Electronics announced today the launch of a new mobile phone, LG Remarq, which comes in line with the operator's eco-criteria, and which adds to Sprint's portfolio of eco-friendly devices. According to the mobile phone carrier, the new device is set to become available for pu...

22 March 2010
10:46 GMT

Sony Ericsson Naite Now Available via Sony Style

Sony Ericsson has just made available a new mobile phone in the United States, the eco-friendly Naite candybar, which was launched only a few days ago on the airwaves of Rogers in Canada. The new handset can be purchased in the US via any local Sony Style store or on the company's website, and comes with a pric...

4 March 2010
13:11 GMT

Samsung's External HDDs Give Style to Eco-Friendliness

Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show, the 2.5-inch G2 Portable and the 3.5-inch G3 Station are Samsung's newest lineup of external hard drives that target the young-adult market and are designed under the company's eco-friendly green concept. These products are free of halogens, use low amounts of po...

11 January 2010
04:08 GMT

Samsung Blue Earth Comes to the Market

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has announced today the launch of its Samsung Blue Earth eco-friendly device, which comes to the market with a full-touch display. The handset was showed to the world for the first time back in February at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, and has already...

14 October 2009
06:38 GMT

Sprint Intros Samsung M240, Eco-Friendly Accessories

Wireless carrier Sprint has launched on its airwaves a new mobile phone at a rather affordable price tag, the Samsung M240, along with a series of new eco-friendly accessories that includes chargers and device cases. According to the company, its line of “green” phone accessories is growing, and users wil...

9 September 2009
05:24 GMT

New Samsung Eco-Friendly Phone, S5500E Lydford

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is reportedly getting ready to release on the market yet another handset that sports eco-friendly features, namely the Samsung S5500E Lydford. As many of you might already know, the company already unveiled a series of such devices during the ongoing year, including the Samsung...

7 September 2009
10:21 GMT

Motorola Launches A45 Murano in Brazil

Motorola's A45 Murano mobile phone has been spotted on the web for quite some time now, although no exact details on it were unveiled until recently. Yet the handset maker finally decided to go official with the device and announced that the Murano would head towards Brazil under the name of MOTOCUBO A45. The ...

31 August 2009
02:41 GMT

BenQ Gets More Eco-Friendly with New LED Backlit Monitors

Trying to make the most of the upcoming back-to-school season, Taiwan-based BenQ has recently announced the introduction of its latest display solutions, designed to provide customers with a choice for a new LED backlit monitor. With the announcement, the company has brought forth a new 24-inch LED widescreen display...

14 August 2009
02:33 GMT

Sprint Releases Corn-Made Samsung Reclaim

Wireless carrier Sprint announced on Thursday the release of a new mobile phone, the eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim. The new handset has been built using bio-plastic materials, 80 percent of which are recyclable. Even so, the device comes to the market as a feature-rich messaging phone capable of delivering great funct...

7 August 2009
03:50 GMT

T-Mobile Users Can Go Green with Green Perks

T-Mobile, USA, Inc. announced on Monday the release of Green Perks, a new app that provides exclusive discounts on green products and services. According to the company, the new application can be downloaded for free for a wide range of existing T-Mobile handsets, and delivers to users green-oriented offers and promo...

30 June 2009
04:03 GMT

LG Also Unveils Solar-Powered Handset

Soon after Samsung announced the development of a solar-powered mobile phone that would be showcased at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, we learned that another Korean phone maker, LG Electronics, also came forward with a similar device, meant to be demoed at the show as well. Although LG h...

13 February 2009
06:54 GMT

Samsung Unveils Solar-Powered 'Blue Earth' Phone

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced an innovative solar-powered full-touch screen phone called “Blue Earth,” which fits the company's vision for environmental sustainability. Samsung reinforces its commitment to protect the environment under the slogan “The Blue Earth Dream: Eco-living with ...

13 February 2009
03:01 GMT

Botas Dacca by Camila Labra – Boots of Plastic Carrier Bags

What with the recent frenzy in terms of initiatives meant to protect the environment, all of them with good reason, of course, here comes yet another one, just as original and double as exciting as the others before it. Designer Camila Labra has created the eco-friendly ankle boots from plastic carrier bags, the Bota...

8 January 2009
04:58 GMT

Backup Your Data with the Eco-Friendly [re]drive

Say you need some extra storage space and you're already considering the purchase of one of those external HDD solutions. In that case, you should know that there are several manufactures that can provide you with such a product. In all fairness, there are so many external hard drives available on the market, th...

30 July 2008
09:06 GMT

Samsung Goes Green with Two New Phones: W510 and F268

Samsung, currently the second largest handset manufacturer in the world, announced the future release of two new environment-friendly mobile phones: SCH-W510 and SGH-F268, both being slider phones that look quite good. Samsung W510 is the company's first phone that includes bio-plastic materials. More exactly, ...

16 June 2008
03:36 GMT

Eco-Friendly "Green" Bags

These days, pretty much everything with the "green" label - from cars to food and clothing - seems to get a lot more attention than it would have been the case, say, ten years ago. We're all becoming increasingly aware that recycling and sustainability are key concepts that refer to more than just beer bottles a...

5 June 2008
09:34 GMT

AMD Phenom X4 9100e - The 65-Watt Processor

AMD announced yesterday the release of the first energy efficient quad-core processor, the AMD Phenom X4 9100e. Using an energy-conscious design, AMD managed to build a desktop CPU that needs only 65-watts to operate. The computing capabilities and user's experience are not diminished, but high performance is de...

27 March 2008
10:13 GMT

Gigabyte to Unveil Energy-Efficient Motherboards

Gigabyte has just unveiled a new line of energy-efficient motherboards built with Intel's latest chipsets on the market, the X38 and the X48. The Dynamic Energy Saver motherboards are alleged to save up to 20 percent in terms of power, at the push of a single button."With more than one year of intensive design a...

16 January 2008
06:41 GMT

CES 2008: HP Pulls the Plug, Announces 25% Less Power Usage Until 2010

Hewlett Packard announced that it will dramatically reduce the energy requirements for its future computers by up to 25 percent. The HP promise will become reality within two years, as part of the company's involvement in preserving a clean environment.In order to achieve its goal, Hewlett-Packard will reconside...

9 January 2008
07:01 GMT

CES 2008: Fujitsu to Introduce Corn-Made PC on the Japanese Market

Fujitsu have once again managed to amaze the audience as they announced their third generation of Biblo PCs at the Consumer Electronics Show. The notebook is fully functional and looks just like a common unit. While its interior is built with regular hardware, the outside casing is made out of plant-based plastic.Mor...

9 January 2008
05:58 GMT

Details Keyboard to Receive Cradle-to-Cradle Certification

The Steelcase subsidiary, Detail, introduced the first Cradle-to-Cradle certificated keyboard. The keyboard is part of an assembly that includes the keyboard mechanism, a platform and a palmrest. Maybe someone would wonder where the novelty is, since keyboard assemblies are sold just around the corner. Well, this key...

27 November 2007
10:01 GMT

Extreme Eco-Friendly: The Monitors That Require No Power While in Stand-By

It seems that an increasingly higher number of manufacturers are coming out with eco-friendly products nowadays, either due to the fact that they actually care about the environment (well, not very likely, is it now?) or simply because an increasingly larger number of consumers prefer this environmentally-friendly pr...

12 November 2007
07:06 GMT

Memorex Rolls Out New Line of Eco-Friendly, Otherwise Unimpressive Products

It would seem that an increasingly higher number of consumer electronics manufacturers are suddenly becoming interested in protecting the environment and doing something for the planet's future (probably because this is such a hot topic nowadays). And the latest important name to join the efforts for a cleaner a...

25 September 2007
07:06 GMT

An Alternative Laptop Design Approach

Worldwide laptop sales are expecting to surpass desktop sales by 2009, reaching the figure of 150 million. Studies show that most laptop buyers keep their hardware around for only about three years, before discarding it and buying a new one. Here is how laptop designers plan to make laptops more eco-friendly across t...

14 July 2007
06:11 GMT


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