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Apple is heading fast towards becoming the greenest tech companies around, as the iPad and iPhone makers announced their latest plans in the environmental section of their company website.  With the aim to reduce the amount of electronic waste...
After the financial collapse of Fisker Automotive, taxpayers and government officials were decidedly upset. Even when Fisker Automotive’s financial assets were put up for auction, including $192 million in loans, people weren’t happy, mostly because an American company couldn’t manage...
Electric vehicles’ single drawback could be solved entirely by one innovation, not simply wireless inductive charging, but embedding these devices in the roadways. Wait, we’ve already seen wireless inductive charging for electric vehicles, even electric buses, with the pads embedded...
The new Apple headquarters may look odd, but it’s also a very smart building, capable of being fully-powered by renewable energy, not to mention its focus on the environment. Steve Jobs visionary new headquarters for Apple looks very much like...
Today I came across this song I'd never heard before. It's called "It's not easy being green" and it's sung by Kermit the Frog, which I'm sure everyone who's ever heard of Sesame Street knows. Although this song was written...
While the Tesla Gigafactory is still in its planning stages, it makes us wonder, how much goes into making a world-class electric vehicle that’s also green? On the surface of things, bringing the Tesla Gigafactory into being will enable mass-production...
Over the winter of 2013, pieces of the world’s largest wind turbine were carefully put into place on a beach in Scotland, and is now generating enough power for nearly 5,000 homes. Calling the Samsung 7 MW prototype off-shore wind...
Tomorrow, April 22, 2014, marks the 44th Annual Earth Day, which started in 1970. Today, over a billion people participate in Earth Day activities around the world. This first Earth Day, back on April 22, 1970, could probably be credited...
Open-air reservoirs are slowly becoming a thing of the past, judging from what Portland did to its thirty-eight million gallon reservoir of potable water after someone urinated in it. The last time this happened, Portland’s reservoir of potable water only...
China’s economic growth is very much at odds with her environmental problems. As the economy grows, so does need for power, two-thirds of which is generated by coal. Looking at the air in China’s great cities, such as Shanghai or...