Cell Phones

As a community weighs the many issues involved, a blogger looks at the available research, and asks what it all means.

French researchers said on Wednesday they had invented a hydrogen fuel cell as a backup power source for mobile phones, thus easing dependence on an electricity supply to charge the gadget.

Negative aspects of wireless technology.

Yet another cool invention from Samsung. After they did break many European and American markets, they plan to knock out those solar power fanatics, by using water as a power source.

Greenpeace recently declared that Samsung cell phones are among the most environmentally friendly technological gadgets in the world. Here are 5 other mobile phones that are doing their bit for the environment.

A new design created by MTI micro fuel cells has designed a new methanol based fuel cell that will be used to charge and recharge cell phones seven times before refuelling the with Methanol

The current options for recycling your cell phone all forget one thing: people are lazy. Pay to recycle? Right! Dig up an old envelope that came with your phone? Not going to happen. Sherwood Folee has a better idea: glue a tiny envelope on the inside of your battery cover. Open it, drop in the mail, done. Cell phone companies, are you listening?

To give an idea of how far we have progressed since the original advocates pressed for electronic recycling programs, Wal-Mart is calling for more uniform U.S. guidelines regarding consumer electronics, energy consumption and recycling.

Environmentalist Bob Lilienfeld believes it's better not to create waste than to figure out what to do with it. He says choosing certain products over others is one way people can help reduce excess waste, like buying foam egg cartons that weigh less than an ounce instead of those pulp paper egg cartons, which weigh close to two ounces.

Are you trying to “go green” '08? Think about recycling used cell phones, while helping military families keep in touch at the same time.

This week, the EPA announced an easy cellphone recycling program partnership with key phone device makers and service providers. The goal is to redirect the 130 million cellphones that will be retired this year to a responsible afterlife. Through this partnership, there are multiple mail-in and drop-off opportunities to be reborn through cell phone donation, or recycled with care.

Cell phone's may be to blame for the decline in Bee populations around the World. The Theory is that radiation from the cell phones is messing up the Bees navigation systems. A most disturbing unintended consequence if this turns out to be true.