All the stories tagged with environmental friendly

earthCell: batteries that are good for the environment

11/11/2011, Batteries are useful products that keep our lives running, but one of the main problems that we encounter while using them is their disposal. Most people simply toss batteries in to the trash, which then ends up filling up our [...]

Alloy could create inexpensive hydrogen

08/31/2011, A team of scientists in Kentucky has claimed that they’ve managed to “tweak” an inexpensive semiconductor to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight. Using an alloy that is formed by replacing 2% of the antimony in gallium nitride, it is [...]

Nokia N9 is eco friendly

08/07/2011, Nokia is known as for making the world’s greenest phones and is consistently making an effort to encourage recycling and environmental-friendly behavior, with publicity stints like the mobile phone man. Well, the Eco profile for its upcoming phone, the N9, [...]

General Electric hybrid light bulbs start shipping

04/01/2011, General Electric’s hybrid halogen-compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs that were announced late last year have started making their way to retailers nationwide. According to the latest reports, these environmental-friendly light bulbs are expected to be available nationwide by April 22 [...]

2011 Nissan LEAF arriving in the rest of America

03/31/2011, Everybody’s going green, and most of the forerunners of green technology are the ones that contributed the most to the current state of the world’s pollution in the first place – the car manufacturers. Nissan is no exception. But in [...]