New inBloom App Helps You “Buy What You Believe In”

It seems like there’s an app for everything these days. You can bank, shop, chat and play on your Smart phone, and more apps are being added every day. Some apps are incredibly useful, while some are merely a diversion. So which category does the new inBloom app, released January 9th for free download through iTunes, fall into? For people in the New York area who are looking for fresh, healthy, local food; green lodging; or businesses they can feel [...]

Belkin’s Conserve Products Make Conserving Energy a Breeze

Keeping track of the energy consumption in our homes is important for our utility bills and important for the environment. Since there are more appliances and electronic devices than ever taking up residence in our homes and offices, it can seem like an overwhelming task to monitor and keep up with everything. Belkin, a company that makes devices that support and simplify electronics use, estimates that a typical home has 40 power drawing devices. Thanks to their new Conserve line [...]

Eco-Friendly Vacuum Cleaners
Green Cleaning for a Healthy Home

HEPA filters and bagless canisters have made vacuuming a much cleaner job. These household must-haves are continuing to improve, featuring better efficiency, noise-free operation, and even recycled plastic construction. If you’re in the market for a new vacuum cleaner, or looking for a more eco-friendly model, consider one of these green favorites to do your dirty work.

Electrolux Ergospace Green

The ultimate in eco-friendly vacuum cleaners, the Electrolux EL4101 is packaged in recycled unbleached cardboard and made from 55% recycled [...]

3 Eco-Friendly Gadgets That Will Make Your Life Easier

If you love technology and you’re also eco-conscious, it can be difficult to find products that you’re satisfied with.  Technology is usually associated with a great deal of waste and damage to the earth – but as people become more and more environmentally-conscious, so do the gadgets they create.  Below, you’ll find 3 convenient gadgets that will live up to your eco-standards.

1. Bedol Water Clock

Most of us have to get up in the morning, which requires the use [...]

Sony Ericsson’s Greenheart Line Introduces New Options for Eco Cell Phones

Eco-friendly cell phone options continue to expand with more mobile manufacturers striving to eliminate the harmful carcinogens found in typical handsets. We’ve already seen Samsung’s efforts, with the super chic, solar powered Blue Earth and the bioplastic Reclaim on the Sprint network.

Sony Ericsson is making the mobile industry even greener with the latest additions to their eco-friendly Greenheart line of phones and accessories. Joining the C901 camera phone and the recycled Naite, the Elm and Hazel promise users [...]

Oberthur Technologies and EcoSIM: Eco-Friendly SIM Cards

We all know what SIM cards are – the little card stuck inside your cell phone that keeps track of your personal data.

Oberthur Technologies, the “second largest provider of smart card-based solutions” has created the first eco-friendly SIM card on the market.

EcoSIM is smaller than traditional SIM cards, and half the plastic is used in its creation. Whereas a sheet of plastic the size of a credit card was traditionally used to make one SIM card, it makes [...]

The Eco-Friendly HDTV That Knows if You’re Watching: Sony KDL-VE5

It happens every day in households across the planet – the television’s on, but no one is there to watch it. Whether the kids get distracted with a game, the telephone rings in another room, or you just simply forget to turn off the set when you walk away, the problem can add up to a lot of wasted energy over the course of time. Sony has the solution.

The new KDL-VE5 series from Sony offers an energy efficient, [...]

Samsung Blue Earth: Recycled Plastic Bottle Cell Phone

The Green Connoisseur brought you news not too long ago about about the Samsung Reclaim, the most eco-friendly cell phone on the market.

However, Samsung has now gone one further, introducing the ‘Blue Earth’ cell phone – created from recycled water bottles. It includes a large solar panel on the back of the phone, and the charger uses significantly less energy if the owner forgets to unplug it!

Features of Blue Earth

Blue Earth has a feature that seems to be a [...]

A Greener Computer World

From checking your email to conducting a background check on your neighbors, computers and the Internet have become essential tools in this day and age. According to the Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, more than eight in ten Americans go online and about 24% of American households have at least three computers. That’s a lot of plastic, energy, and wasteful materials if you don’t embrace a greener computer world.

Thankfully, the technology of today, forward-thinking [...]

Eco-Friendly Printer: Tea or Coffee?

There are a lot of great things used coffee grounds are good for, from composting to dying fabric and more. The eco-friendly RiTi printer would create another use for them, as a substitution for ink.

Printers and ink cartridges are a major concern for those who are environmentally responsible and the RiTi is an amazing concept.

The printer not only uses no ink – it uses no electricity for the actual printing process…something never before seen.

The RiTi was featured in the Greener [...]