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CES Green Roundup

I’d like to apologize for the lack of updates as I’m afraid I took the holiday vacation to heart and it took reading some of the latest gadgetry news from CES to get me back in the game.  As you may have noticed from the previous posting, the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show took place [...]

Leasing Residential Solar Power

If you have friends or family in Colorado, then you might have already heard of companies like SunRun. SunRun is a California-based home solar-service company that recently expanded its market to serve Colorado. Already providing service in Arizona, California, and Massachusetts, SunRun allows home-owners to lease solar panels for as low as $1,000 [...]

Eco-review: Wireless Providers

Just this month, Sprint started selling the Samsung Reclaim.

Labeled as “Eco-fun for the environmentally conscious”, the main qualifier for this phone is that it is “Built from 80% recycled material with 40% of the casing made from corn-based bio-plastic” (as per Sprint’s website).  The phone comes with the usual variety of features, such as keyboard, [...]

The Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics

Being environmentally conscious is an on-going task. Its rare to find perfect solutions in life so instead we all face an endless parade of compromising choices.  Which detergent pollutes the water less? Should I recycle this monitor or toss it out? Its all about making the best decision that you can with [...]

Networking the Smart Grid

“In many ways we see this scenario as analogous to the birth of the Internet”.  That is a quote from Cisco’s website where they are discussing their recent venture into smart grid architecture. Cisco is better known as a manufacturer of network equipment and seller of a variety of network-related software products. [...]