All the stories tagged with green-tag
Loowatt generates electricity from human waste
05/03/2011, Is there any value in human waste? We do know that folks in India do use cow dung as a source of fuel to cook their food, but we doubt that anyone would want to use the human equivalent on [...]
Motz Wooden PET speaker is adorable and environmental-friendly
04/27/2011, If you’re a fan of music and animals, and you care about the environment, these new wooden speakers from Motz should be right up your alley. Made from wood and 100% hand crafted, these beautiful speakers are crafted after of [...]
NTT DoCoMo Data Center shrugs off earthquakes
04/26/2011, Japan’s largest telecom operator, NTT DoCoMo, has recently unveiled their latest data center (the fifth, in fact), where this 16-storey building that is located right smack in earthquake-prone Tokyo (heck, the whole of Japan is prone to earthquakes for that [...]
QTVan in tow by electric scooter
04/25/2011, Want to live a true blue Hobbit lifestyle? You won’t be able to go wrong with the QTVan, as this is one cute little trailer that was specially designed by English company Environmental Transport Association (ETA), where it will be [...]
New Wind Turbine for the Massachusetts National Cemetery
04/22/2011, The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) just held a dedication ceremony in order to dedicate (what else?) a new 50-kilowatt wind turbine that wil be erected at the Massachusetts National Cemetery. This is no shorty, as the 120-foot tall structure [...]
GreenNet 2011, Computers vs. Climate Change
04/21/2011, Watch live streaming video from greennet2011 at livestream.com Ubergizmo is a media partner of GreenNet, a conference hosted today in San francisco by GigaOm. The topics are pretty interesting, ranging from the next-gen smart grid and the connected cars to [...]
Nissan LEAF declared 2011 World Car of the Year
04/21/2011, The eco-friendly car from Nissan known as the LEAF has just been declared the world car of the year 2011. Going up against the Audi A8 and BMW 5 Series in the finals, the world’s first mass-market electric vehicle managed [...]
Alibre-designed WIKISPEED SGT01 car delivers over 100 miles per gallon
04/20/2011, While car manufacturers have been looking for ways to make their cars less harmful to the environment, they’ve either gone with the either the hybrid/full-electric route or they’ve made their cars more fuel efficient. WIKISPEED is one such company going [...]
How green is the iPhone?
04/20/2011, Well thanks to the folks over at Geekaphone, you won’t have to do the research yourself. They’ve come up with a handy infographic to let us know how friendly the iPhone is to the environment. So how green is the [...]
Earth Day Network and Facebook release Billion Acts of Green app
04/19/2011, Earth Day Network and Facebook have announced in a collaborative effort, they have created an app to inspire people around the world to take actions to reduce their impact on the environment. Called Billion Acts of Green, the app has [...]
Google invests $100m in the world’s largest wind farm
04/19/2011, Google seems to be hell-bent on world domination… in a safe clean way at least. The company has been reported to have invested $100m in the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon. The latest investment follows previous investments in clean [...]
DAlH2Orean remote-controlled car goes green
04/18/2011, One of the more noticeable contributors to our landfills would be toys for your kids – how many toys were actually played around with for a couple of weeks or so, before they get discarded due to kids’ super short [...]
95% More Energy-Efficient Cooling with Liquid-Submerged Computer
04/18/2011, As our computing lives continue moving to “the cloud” (remote data centers), cooling has become an increasingly difficult and expensive task for those who operate data centers. Today, most data centers are air-cooled, except for some mainframes. Green Revolution Cooling [...]
