Archive for the 'Green Technology' Category

Jan 16 2009

Smoking Hot Green Fashion, from Cigarette Butts

New Chilean fashion designer,  Alexandra Guerro, has managed to create beautiful and functional high fashion clothing, at a price accessible to average people.  This in itself, can be a challenge for up and coming designers, but when you consider the fact that  the yarn used to create her fashions is recycled from discarded cigarette butts, it is truely [...]

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Jan 07 2009

Energy Efficient Large Screen Televisions : If You Just Have to Have that New Big Screen Televison

Yes, there are energy efficient big screen televisions available, and I have done a lot of the homework for you.
  This seemed a perfect time to investigate the options available in big screen TVs  and their energy consumption. By now, most of us are well aware that most of the new flat screen televisions are energy hogs. [...]

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Dec 29 2008

Times Square is Going Green for the New Year

Published by jehaine under CO2, Green Technology, Misc.

It will be a green New New Year’s Eve, in New York this year.  The big red Coca Cola sign, which has been an iconic part of Times Square, since 1932, is going green. The sign will now be lit by wind power, and will be powered by this green energy, in time for the [...]

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Dec 21 2008

Clean Coal Technology and It’s Potentially Catastrophic Risks

Published by jehaine under CO2, Controversy, Green Technology

Although, clean coal technology has yet to prove it’s viability, storage of the fluid CO2, which would result from the process, should raise many concerns. While watching a documentary about the processing and sequestration techniques under development, some concerns arose, for me. As I viewed animations illustrate the process of pumping fluid CO2, beneath the [...]

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Dec 18 2008

New Uses for Old Tires: An Innovative American Company is Finding Solutions

New Uses for Old Tires: An Innovative American Company is Finding Solutions
Today, New Jersey based green technology company,  B Green Innovations Inc., a producer of products made from 100% recycled tires, has announced that they are ready to apply for 3 more patents. These applications are in addition to the company’s recent patent application for [...]

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