Green Product Placement Is Making Sustainability Cool & Normal
Green marketing faces the challenge of creating and marketing innovative green products and services while persuading consumers. Green product placement is helping.
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Popular Television: It’s Time To Shine A Spotlight On Clean Energy
Dear Hollywood, clean energy is normal, not alternative. And the people fueling this industry have powerful, underrepresented stories to share.
Years of Living Dangerously Reprise Starts Tomorrow Night
The powerful cable television series Years of Living Dangerously, a remarkable view of the human impacts of climate change that we reviewed several times earlier this year, returns to television in rerun form this weekend. If you missed the compelling series the first time, you really owe it to yourself (and … [continued]
LG Launches Super-Thin, Energy-Efficient OLED TV
Nearly a full year since the company was awarded Best of Show at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, LG has launched its award-winning 55-inch OLED super-thin television in Korea, with other markets soon to open. The LG Cinema 3D Smart TV is one of the thinnest televisions … [continued]
Shake Remote, Turn Off Television
With potential laptops powered by typing and watches powered by moving one’s arm, energy harvesting is a growing field with a number of cool products. In Japan, Murata Manufacturing is firmly on board the trend with sensors to detect and convert vibration, temperature gradient, ambient heat, and light into small amounts of electricity. Their most recent offering uses a variety of their sensors in combination with a flexible plate to send several different signals without the need for batteries.
Exercise with an Energy Purpose
One such invention is not only affordable it provides a great way to spend idle time while producing clean and portable electricity that can be used. Called the Pedal-a-Watt, this stationary bicycle stand that generates electricity while functioning as a sound fitness device.
"Planet Forward" Takes Your Ideas on Energy to Television and the White House
Editor’s Note: This post is a guest contribution by Frank Sesno, Emmy-award winning journalist and former CNN Washington Bureau Chief. “Planet Forward” is an innovative, viewer-driven program driven by the power of ideas, as citizens make their case for what they think about the nation’s energy future. The show debuts on the web first and … [continued]
TV Zombies Take Over the Consumer Electronics Show
Apparently, a group of TV zombies have taken over the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Why? Because all those supposedly “green” electronics being exhibited are actually heading to the dumpster after they’ve died.
Clean Alternatives to Everyday Machines: On/Off/Switch?
To wrap up my ode to John Henry (and a more sustainable lifestyle) I am going to cover a few more everyday household plug-ins by giving the current ON the grid offering, it’s OFF the grid alternative, and weigh in on whether a switch is warranted. ON The Fridge: We … [continued]
