Max Gladwell

European telecom provider Orange offers a motion-driven cell phone recharger. While you’re dancing energy is powering the nightclub, you can also be recharging your cell phone. Actually, the new kinetic cell-phone recharger from Orange is intended more for outdoor music festivals. From AdRants: “The Orange Dance Charge is the result of months of research into [...]

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The End of Suburbia, $200 Oil, Food Miles, Greenpeace Goes Nuclear, Global Cooling, The iPhone Social Network, Top 25 Blogs, That’s All for NAU, and GM Invests in Cellulosic Ethanol 1. It’s the End of Suburbia as You Know it Business Week: The suburban landscape has been marred by foreclosures and half-built communities abandoned in [...]

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From CNET Green Tech: Whether marking printers or produce, the increasing number of “green” claims on products can make it hard to separate sincere efforts at sustainability from marketing fluff. A wiki-style Greenwashing Index, run by an environmental marketing firm, invites people to upload suspicious-looking ads. Eco-themed groups have sprung up on MySpace and Facebook. [...]

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