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As you already know, laptops come packaged in a fair amount of cardboard boxing, plastic and other potential environmental pollutants. The retailers receive these items in even bigger boxes. Their enormous boxes contain smaller ones inside, most with non-biodegradable peanuts and excessive padding material to boot.

ASUS has created an eco-minded, dashing ECOBooK. A great deal of thought went into the design of the EcoBook, as the enclosure features interchangeable, (and biodegradable), panels, silver keyboard / trackpad, and a nifty powergear performance button.

Green Depot, the Brooklyn-based contributor of eco-friendly and sustainable building products, services and solutions, is opening its newest space on August 28th in Greenport, N.Y. The store will be Green Depot’s fifth on the East Coast and second in New York.

Almost all industry standard mattresses are manufactured with poor quality components, filled with toxic foams treated with crude chemicals and put together with harsh glue chemicals.

New York City’s 169 escalators throughout the subway system are not known for running efficiently. The escalators average around 68 breakdowns or repair calls per year, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority now says it has a small solution.

Our home should be a place where we create balance and serenity. Creating a practical way to be green in our homes is by using all natural cleaning products.

Parisians and tourists embraced the citywide bike-sharing program, (Vélib’), that began a year ago, so now Mayor Bertrand Delanoë is suggesting a four-wheeled version, using electric cars!

Starting next April, a fee will be added to electronics to help establish a recycling system for Ontario, CA. Producers of televisions, computers, monitors and fax machines will pay an “e-waste” fee on each device to help build a structure of 420 drop-off locations where e-waste can disposed of safely.

Buying products made from recycled soda bottles, or any recycled material for that matter, eliminates the need for new substances, particularly oil. Plastic soda bottles are not biodegradable. When they end up in landfills, they remain there for up to 700 years before beginning to decompose. Recycling plastic bottles reduces the amount of trash clogging landfills.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs are promoted because they use up to 75% less energy, last longer and cost less over time than incandescent bulbs. The average household reduces its energy budget by $12 to $20 a month using compact fluorescents.

Seth and Jonathan are architects collectively creating amazing, innovative designs. Eight years of cooperative and exhilarated designs has landed them in Seattle, where Graypants, Inc. was invented from a passion to make a difference through stylized design.

Toronto scientist Gordon Graff has constructed plans for a 58-floor concept building called the “Sky Farm”, (2.7 million square ft. of floor area and 8 million square ft. of growing area), which would grow crops in the heart of Toronto’s downtown theatre district. This could potentially provide enough food for 35,000 people every day. Though the design and construction would be very expensive, Graff believes that the farm could reap about $23,000,000 in annual revenue.

When is comes to cleaning, I’m really anal and some might say, compulsive. I lived most of my adult life in NYC and for those of you who have had the privilege of experiencing the wonderful city, one of the many things you may have realized is that it’s not the cleanest city in the world.

San Francisco’s board of supervisors has finally approved the Solar Energy Incentive Program making San Fran the country’s largest municipal solar program. The program has been a go for 10 years with an annual budget of $3 million dollars.

Electronic waste, or “e-waste”, is waste consisting of any broken or unwanted electrical or electronic appliance. It’s been estimated that a person keeps their laptop for just 3 years before buying a new one and cell phones are generally replaced and disposed of within just 24 months.

Most of my adult life has been spent in New York City where dense living is a given, and roof tops are coveted and at times converted into gardens, patios, and many other exotic outdoor creations. I have often wondered what it would be like to have a beautiful panoramic view of the big apple without the cost of “penthouse” living.

Bike Furniture Design has been written about a number of times, on blogs, in magazines as well as other forms of great exposure. I’m not the first person to appreciate their recycled modern furniture and I most definitely won’t be the last!

The new green, (LEED), building at One Jackson Square, in Manhattan, embodies a new way of eco-conscious living. It is one of the first LEED certified, environmentally-friendly buildings in the neighborhood and sales are already under way for these 35 modernistic green condos in the heart of Greenwich Village.

Two US-based carriers have announced a reduction in their services to the Caribbean as they grapple to deal with soaring oil prices on the world market. American Airlines and American Eagle has cut and canceled virtually all flights from the US to Aruba.

I’m a bit of an electronic junkie. I’m always interested in hearing about the new, cool, gadgets on the market, and then when you add a “green” aspect into the design, I dig, dig, dig it! When I saw Vers 2x’s iPod speaker system, I fell for it hard.