n Tuesday night, we got a chance to hang out with our friends from Special Olympics of Connecticut (SOCT). YouRenew.com, in partnership with SOCT, collects cell phones that individuals can donate to raise money for our Special Olympic Heroes. We have a fundraising partnership with SOCT and donate part of the proceeds from [...]

Just one year after Disney’s adorable movie Wall-E was released, Italian researchers have created their very own intelligent trash collector called DustCart.

DustCart will travel from door to door collecting garbage and recyclables from citizens. It will also pick up trash, wash and disinfect the streets and provide information on air quality.

The adorable bot is part [...]

or the past two weeks I have been biking to work in New Haven. I was skeptical about the hassle at first; the helmet, the traffic, locking the bike, storing…ack!

At the beginning, I felt awkward and clumsy; I was nervous about the cars, I wobbled slowly when starting, I couldn’t figure out how to get [...]

Have you ever looked out the window of your office and felt the urge to get away from all the cars and buildings, move out to the country, and live off the land; off the grid?

Well maybe that’s a bit extreme, but creating your own energy to lessen your burden on the planet certainly isn’t.  [...]

In its Guide to Greener Electronics, Greenpeace recently called out HP, Lenovo and Dell–the world’s biggest PC makers– for their silent retreat on their commitments to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009.

According to Greenpeace, the latest public wake up call for the big three occurred [...]

We’ve written in the past about the GSMA announcement to create a universal charger by 2012.

It looks like Europe decided to get a head start.

On Monday, it was announced by the European Commission that several major mobile phone manufacturers, including Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson have signed up for a European Union wide harmonization of [...]

It probably comes as no surprise that stuff these days is built to break. Or, built to become outdated.

We know this because we see it everyday, pouring in through our mail. Cell phones from 2 years ago, laptops from 4 years ago, iPhones from 3 weeks ago. Technology changes pretty rapidly and sometimes it’s hard [...]