From SustainableBusiness.com News Below is a very interesting article from sustainablebusiness.com about a clean and energy efficient process of getting heating from river water in Netherlands. When we think of marine energy, it’s about electricity from wave and tidal energy, but what about getting heat from water? Since 2008, the small harbor town of Duindorp in the...

Despite the fact that going green saves you a lot of money, we also all know that it does the environment a huge favor. But are you aware of how much your business may be affecting the environment? Dummies.com has laid down some examples of how businesses affect the environment.  You may be surprised by some specific examples of ways the working world damages the environment:...

The amount of sunlight that falls on the Earth’s surface in one minute is sufficient to meet world energy demand for an entire year. According to the American Solar Energy Society, the amount of sunlight that falls on the Earth’s surface in one minute is sufficient to meet world energy demand for an entire year. Read more on: http://blog.goinggreentoday.com/

A cyclist will put out roughly 100 watts of power when riding at a vigorous pace (in this case, watts are not being used to describe electricity, but power in general). If we attached a generator to their bicycle, the electricity created by our cyclist would be sufficient to light a single 100 watt bulb. Over the course of an hour, the amount of energy consumed by that bulb (or...

The Internet is full of ideas, concepts and actual green inventions. They all seem really practical and environmentally friendly that we wish we would see more of them, and actually have them in real life. Here are some of those cool innovations. 1. A charger that charges your gadget from the heat of hot drinks and the cold of, well, cold drinks!!   2. Wanna keep in shape, be...

Known as the White Goat, this green invention allows you to convert normal paper into toilet paper. Simply insert about 40 sheets of paper, and in 30 minutes you’ll receive a freshly made roll of toilet paper. The machine shreds the paper, dissolves it in water, thins it out and then dries it and winds it around a roll. This bizarre invention stands 1.8m tall and weighs 600kg....

Who doesn’t throw away pencil stubs containing an inch of lead? When Hoyoung Lee’s concept printer becomes reality, you’ll never throw away another pencil stub and never buy another ink cartridge. The pencil printer separates the wood from pencils and uses the lead to print documents. There’s even a built-in eraser component that allows you to remove text from a page and...

For Earth Day this year, Apple has added a new video narrated by Apple CEO Tim Cook and a letter by Lisa Jackson, Apple’s head-honcho of green initiatives and the former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The video references some of the things that were recently highlighted by Greenpeace, such as Apple’s use of 100% renewable energy for its...

Where there is light, there is power. In today’s constantly moving world, mobile devices are our windows to social media, but the problem is that they don’t have an unending battery supply. How many times you watched your phone’s battery die before you could charge it? Well with this Solar Panel Battery, if you’re going to be outdoors for awhile, on a...

Apple has been taking their environmental impact quite seriously. They call it “Environmental Responsibility”. If you take a look at their website dedicated to show off their efforts to give back to the environment, you will find how they were “evolving” towards leaving a smaller footprint.       Not only are their products looking cooler,...