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Digital Gift Guide 2011

December 8, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

This holiday, why not try giving more with less by dematerializing your gifts? Essentially, dematerialization is the digitization of items, mostly media like books, music and video games (that’s a hint of what to expect on this list). These works, now freed from physical media — at least on the consumer end since they still […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: amazon, cloud, dematerialization, ebook, gift guide, green gifts, guide, Spotify, Valve

Windowfarms: Social, crowdsourced hydroponics bring fresh food home

November 29, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Got a window? Then you can grow your own food. A group of driven, DIY-types from around the world are helping to bring hydroponic systems home. In her TED talk “A Garden in My Apartment” (below), Britta Riley of Windowfarms — vertical food gardens, if you will — shows how a socially-driven community of 24,000 hydroponics buffs […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial, Featured Tagged With: community, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, DIY, hydroponic, Kickstarter, open source, social media, TED, Windowfarms

Nest: The iPod of smart thermostats

October 25, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

What does a former Apple exec that’s responsible for the iconic iPod do when the thermostats on the market are too lame for his new green home? He brings design and software savvy to bear on the problem. The result is the puck-like Nest, from Tony Fadell’s startup of the same name. It’s a learning, connected thermostat […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Featured Tagged With: Apple, energy efficiency, home energy management, Nest, smart thermostat, startup

ecoSocial: Causes trump brands in social media?

August 31, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

A recent post in the Social Media Examiner examined the “9 Reasons Why Your Content Is Not Shared on Social Networks.” All good stuff , but one reason stood out because it touches on a couple of factors that shape how green technology companies do business and how they’re perceived online. The highlight for me […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial, Featured Tagged With: American Express, Cree, Facebook, LED lighting, LEDs, social media, Twitter

E-waste bills hit Capitol Hill

June 24, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Earlier today, I featured this story at CIO.com in the Top 10 about the Responsible Electronic Recycling Act, which places explicit restrictions on e-waste, closing loopholes that allows recyclers to pick off the choice parts from discarded electronics and ship off the rest. The hope is to stop the deplorable environmental and health conditions at […]

Filed Under: E-Waste & Recycling, Featured Tagged With: bill, e-waste, government, legislation, U.S. Congress

Cool design: The Next American Economy book cover

June 10, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

While watching The Daily Ticker yesterday, which featured the author of “The Next American Economy,” William J Holstein, the cover of his book flashed for a moment. Sure it’s nice, clean and modern — and a little spare and safe, to be completely honest — but if you look closely there’s a nice little twist […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: book, economy, Made in the USA, manufacturing

Sourcemap: Rattle (and tattle on) those supply chains

May 24, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Where do your gadgets really come from? The folks behind Sourcemap, a crowdsourced, open source project, hope to answer that question by cataloging where the components that make up our devices originate. It’s an effort to provide a measure of supply chain transparency, according to project founder Leo Bonanni (see his Greener Gadgets 2010 talk […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial, Featured, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: carbon footprint, conflict minerals, consumer electronics, crowdsourcing, Gadgets, manufacturing, open source, supply chain

Infographic of the Day: Peer-1’s top sites online

April 26, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

I hope your mouse wheel’s up to the task because this one’s a scroll-a-thon. (That up there is a mere sampling.) Peer-1 Hosting, which knows a thing or two about green data centers, has cooked up a spiffy, super-sized infographic of today’s most visited online destinations and the power it takes to keep their IT […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Featured, Stats & Figures Tagged With: Data Center, data centers, energy efficiency, green data center, statistics, stats

Apple, Intel help keep gadgets free of conflict minerals

April 1, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

Now we’re getting somewhere. Apple and Intel should feel pretty jazzed about forcing the electronics industry to take conflict minerals seriously and lending their support to keep consumer electronics supply chains free of the “blood diamonds” of the technology world. Gadgets, gadgets everywhere The past few years has been a paradise for gadget lovers. An […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: Apple, conflict minerals, Congo, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Gadgets, Intel, laws

Kiva + Kickstarter = 33needs?

February 16, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Kickstarter’s hot, but not the only game in town. Mashable published a great profile on 33needs, a crowdfunding startup that specializes on projects that promote social good. In fact, it’s an outright requirement. Unlike Kickstarter, where any entrepreneur with a vision can solicit funds, 33needs strictly caters to projects and enterprises with strong social missions. […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial, Featured Tagged With: 33 Needs, crowdfunding, entrepreneur, funding, Kickstarter, Kiva, social media, startup

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