November 28th, 2012 
Justin Manger 
Since 2007, when Levi’s conducted a life-cycle assessment of some of its major products, the company has become increasingly conscious of the sustainability of the raw materials it uses to produce its clothing. In response, the company is making changes to become more eco-friendly. Last month, according to Business Week, Levi’s introduced its first line [...]
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No Comments » November 14th, 2012 Max Caughron In Japan, the lack of domestic energy sources combined with high demand means that electricity prices are high at 32 cents per kilowatt hour. Winters in Japan also get very cold, and most houses and apartments are surprisingly poorly insulated. So to keep warm a lot of Japanese (and English living teachers in Japan) turn [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Green Products, Japan Tags: comfortable, heater, kotatsu, Max Caughron No Comments » October 10th, 2012 Max Caughron Still far from the replicator technology in Star Trek, reasonably affordable commercial 3D printers like the $2000 MakerBot and $1300 Cube are still for the hobbyist but is quickly moving away from design laboratories and proof of concept exhibitions and into the consumer market. A 3D printer is what it sounds like it is, instead [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Business, Clean Technology, Green Building, Green Economy, Green Products, Recylcing Tags: 3D Printing, Goop, Max Caughron, Waste No Comments » October 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson Last year I wrote about Norwex, a Norwegian company that makes cleaning supplies that are environmentally friendly. The other day I saw a series of commercials for Libman, another cleaning supply company. One of Norwex’s features is that it is sold by associates that can have a small side business, like homemakers or students. Libman [...]
October 3rd, 2012 Justin Manger We all know the massive amounts of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico during the Macondo deep-water oil spill of 2010. Since then scientists have been working overtime trying to come up with unique ways to remove oil from water. Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University may be on to something. [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Green Products, Justin Manger, Oceans Tags: Conservation, Environment, Oil Consumption, Pollution No Comments » September 18th, 2012 Justin Manger So the morning news in Japan has very little to do with actual news. Depending on the day’s schedule, sometime between 6:00 and 7:00 each morning I catch a few minutes of NHK, the national broadcasting channel in Japan, as I prepare for the day. Most of the broadcast seems to be dedicated to overkilling [...]
August 27th, 2012 Eric Wilson The other day I received the Sava Spa Showerhead, a low-flow product from Niagara Conservation in the mail. I was expecting a tiny device, but as you can see in the image below, it was much larger than the shower head previously installed in my bathroom (see image below). In fact, as I walked into [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Green Products, President Obama, Reviews Tags: Product Review, Water Conservation No Comments » August 16th, 2012 Chris DeArmond Though word had been out for a while that Toyota was aiming to produce a hydrogen-powered sedan (called the FCV-R), Jim Lentz, Toyota Motor Sales President and CEO, officially confirmed the plans last week. In a recent speech to the Center for Automotive Research, Lentz stated that a “hydrogen fuel-cell sedan” would be part of [...]
August 3rd, 2012 Chris DeArmond Even if you’re not much of a car buff, you probably have the sense that traditional, internal combustion vehicles generally have the edge in cost over electric vehicles (EVs). And you’d be right. As Stephanie Yin notes in her article, “The Long, Winding Road to Advanced Batteries for Electric Cars,” battery technology has come a [...]
July 25th, 2012 Chris DeArmond Whether or not you’re a fan of electric propulsion, one thing has become wonderfully (or as it may be the case, painfully) clear: electric vehicles (EVs) are here to stay. Not too many years ago, we were hearing the first rumors about General Motors’ Chevrolet Volt. Sure, the Toyota Prius had been out for a [...]
