Windlift, a start-up in North Carolina is following the “think different” mantra by creating a unique way to generate power off the grid: kites. Now this is no tiny fly-on-the-beach-during-summer-vacation 10 buck version. These kites are massive 430 square foot airfoils tethered to a drum. After launching the kite, the drum slowly releases its tethers [...]
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Benjamin Franklin Would Be Proud; Generating Electricity with Kites
October 11th, 2011 
Justin Manger The Green Apple: Who Will Be the Steve Jobs of the Clean Energy Sector?
October 9th, 2011 Justin Manger Yesterday, I briefly attended the CEATEC exhibition in Tokyo that focused on electronics and had a lot of green technologies on display: solar panels, EV charging stations, new energy efficiency measures, and even a planned sustainable community. What was lacking, however, was a whole other type of electricity- the electric atmosphere found at certain events where the [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Green Products, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainability 
Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Apple 
No Comments »MIT Invention Harvests Energy from Vibrations
October 5th, 2011 Justin Manger Bridges, overpasses, walkways…we’ve all felt the rumble or the shaking as people and vehicles cross these structures. Slightly nerve-wracking and sometimes annoying, is there any real use for these vibrations? After all, it is a form of kinetic energy. MIT has thought outside the box yet again to rig up a miniature energy-harvester that can pick up [...]
EcoFreek, Your Search Engine for Reusing and Repurposing
September 27th, 2011 Eric Wilson In an attempt to broaden the reduce, recycle, reuse mantra, Ecofreek.com offers web denizens a portal to search for used items that are listed on the web. Numerous sites provide listings for free “stuff”, but sifting through all of them can be time consuming. Classifieds and Craigslist contain a wealth of gently used goods for [...]
Site Visit: Green Cremation, St. Petersburg Funeral Home Offers a Green Way to Go with World’s First Commercial Resomator
September 14th, 2011 Chris DeArmond After seeing several news stories – including one that was the most viewed article on BBC News, now with over 18 thousand “shares” – about an alternative cremation process to be offered at Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home in St. Petersburg, FL, I knew it was time for a site visit! After arriving, I spoke with its [...]
Posted in Green Economy, Green Products, Site Visits Tags: Chris DeArmond, Florida, Green Burial No Comments »Product Review: Reusable Diapers Revisited
September 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson Just over 18 months ago my son was born and my wife and I decided to use washable, reusable diapers instead of disposables. We have 16 Bum Genius and 2 Happy Heinys. Early on I wrote reviews of both Bum Genius and Happy Heinys. Today I am revisiting the general idea of washable diapers. At [...]
Personal Rapid Transport “Pods” Arrive at Heathrow Airport
August 26th, 2011 Justin Manger From Virginia to London, new public transportation options are being implemented around the globe. This summer, the first commercial PRT (personal rapid transit) system anywhere in the world will open at London’s Heathrow Airport. Commissioned by BAA (formerly the British Airport Authority) the system “comprises some 4 kilometers of guideway and will link one station in Terminal [...]
Posted in Green Building, Green Products, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Electric Vehicles, Mass Transit, Video No Comments »4th Annual Back to School Guide to PVC-Free Supplies Released
August 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson In its fourth annual edition of the PVC-Free School Supply Guide, the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ) provides a list of items that are non-toxic and free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a precusor to vinyl chloride and a known carcinogen. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “VC is an ozone precursor and known [...]
13 Year Old Makes Solar Panel Breakthrough By Mimicking Nature, Or Does He?
August 22nd, 2011 Justin Manger Taking a page from Mother Nature’s instruction book, a young and curious student from New York has built a small tree-shaped solar array (we’ve featured leaf shaped solar panels on the site before) that won him the American Museum of Natural History’s 2011 Young Naturalist Award. You can read his full essay here. In short, Aidan Dwyer figured that trees [...]
ReDirect Guide: The Healthy and Sustainable Lifestyle Directory
August 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson For those looking to find environmentally and socially equitable companies and products, the ReDirect Guide helps put consumers in touch with businesses that put sustainability, both environmental and social, first. The ReDirect Guide is “a new breed of media company – one that is dedicated solely to creating innovative and effective media that encourages green [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Green Products, Sustainability Tags: Boulder-Colorado, Colorado, Denver, Portland-Oregon No Comments »
