AP – Global warming, poverty, health and education took center stage at the opening of Clinton Global Initiative conference Wednesday as former President Clinton and his vice president, Al Gore, briefly reunited on a common cause.
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Memorex is hitting all the right buzz words with its new line of “ReNew” products, unfortunately the company forgot to spend much time thinking about the products themselves. Sure, it’s all packaged in recycled cardboard and egg carton recycled paper, built with recycled plastics, meets RoHS standards and all that jazz — Memorex will even plant 75k trees through the Arbor Day Foundation with a portion of the sales — but unfortunately the products themselves scream “cheap crap.” However, if you’re really bent on saving the planet the Memorex way, you can pick up the ReNew Alarm Clock, ReNew Digital Music Player (with 1GB memory and a pitiful monochrome display), ReNew Boombox and ReNew iPod Speaker in November.
Memorex ReNew line cashes in on green (via Engadget)
Architecture students at NYIT had a sunny assignment: Design and build a solar-powered house. Fox 5 tech and environmental reporter Brett Larson took a tour of the house on the Old Westbury campus.
Click through to see the video: FOXe: Solar-Powered House
AFP – Nearly 200 countries have agreed to accelerate the elimination of chemicals that threaten the ozone and exacerbate global warming, a top UN official announced Saturday.
190 countries reach ‘historic’ deal on cutting ozone threats (AFP)
Watch this wonderful parody of coal; the Naib says “It is simply dripping of the same green washing irony that so many companies are rolling out now and days. These companies use the same kind of tactics to try and convince people that their otherwise dirty industry is now shiny and green because they have done some small token action.” ::Free Love Forum via, yet again…
Coal: Cheap. Abundant. Cheap. (via TreeHugger)
I suppose it’s hip now to be green, since it seems every company, even the worst offenders are out there promoting that they’re “green”-ish. The Mission Title is Will You Join Us… Certainly not…
This is their boring Sim-City like Energy Educating Game!
Unfortunately, some people have to work on a Friday, but if you don’t have to or you’re around Brooklyn, stop by: The 3rd Annual Green Brooklyn Event
