Nissan LEAF Makes North American Debut
Nissan's all-electric LEAF. While Toyota, Ford, and other car companies are focusing much of their efforts on hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, Nissan is making a big bet on the future of electric cars. The company’s first all-electric car, the LEAF, made its North American debut on Friday in Los Angeles, well in advance of its availability to the general public in 2012. “The LEAF is a new paradigm of the car,” said Nissan CEO Carlos

MCT Releases Better-Than-Expected Tidal Power Turbine Data
SeaGen tidal power turbine producing more energy than expected. Photo: Marine Current Turbines Speaking today at the Lisbon International Ocean Power Conference, Peter Fraenkel, Technical Director and co-founder of Marine Current Turbines (MCT), the UK-based company that designed and developed SeaGen, the world’s only commercial scale tidal stream turbine

The Touch Wood Mobile Phone
Japanese telecom DOCOMO, in collaboration with Sharp and Olympus had developed a touch phone prototype out of surplus wood.  The phone, named the Touch Wood (insert sexual pun here), is a great example of sustainable design. The Cyprus wood case ads a unique look to the phone while potentially offering a  more environmentally sound case than traditional plastic encased phones.  Unlike petrole

T-Mobile Now Selling “Green” Portable Fuel Cells
Best Buy was the first retailer to begin selling the “green” portable fuel cell for smart phones and PDAs. Now T-Mobile has bought-in to Medis Technologies’ greenwash campaign by beginning to sell the environmental train-wreck that is the Xtreme Portable Power Solution. Cell-phone manufacturers are doing all kinds of things to both make their products a little greener and to make their products appear greener. Now, cellphone accessory manufacturers are trying to get in the gam

Canadian Spud Farm Opens Potato Waste-to-Biogas Plant
Cavendish Farms to save 2.6 million gals. of fossil fuels annually. Canadian farm uses biogas from potatoes for power. (Photo: net_efekt) Cavendish Farms, a Canadian potato product producer has finished construction of its anaerobic digestion facility in Prince Edward Island that will generate biogas from potato waste. The ‘potato-gas’ project is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.