Posts Tagged ‘sustainable’

When one visualizes alternative energy, often the images that one sees are either large windmills in a distant field of grass or fancy looking displays of solar panels on rooftops.  Add a new image to your brain.  Crap!  Chicken crap to be exact.  Yes, the Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg has unveiled a biomass power plant [...]

While you may be thinking outside the box for work,  you can now live in it when you get home!  More and more people are building homes from recycled freight containers.  The original idea of using the containers for abodes was started by TempoHousing.  Their original idea was to use these old containers as temporary [...]

The mainstream has grown past just eating organic food to maintain a green lifestyle.  Many are demanding green clothes, green cars, and now even green living.  Homes and apartments using ecofriendly methods for water, energy, building materials, and building surroundings are surging in demand.  Many buildings, both residential and commercial, are also getting LEED certification. [...]

Tired of paying $4/gallon for gas every week?  I found a way to reduce your gas bill and your carbon footprint at the same time.  The Neuton CE 6.2 is an electric powered lawn mower that can go toe to toe with its gas counterpart.  Its powerful enough to cut almost any residential grass you [...]

RecycleBank, a Philadelphia based startup, pays consumers to recycle.  Using RFID technology, a residential customers recycling amounts are recorded each time their trash is collected.  Depending on the quantity and type of recyclables collected, points are accumulated and later convert to gift certificates for businesses such as Whole Foods, Stonyfield Farms, and Green Mountain Coffee [...]

Designer David Gardener used inspiration to create the ‘Packaging Lamp‘ which is a lamp made from its retail packaging.  Gardener was tired of buying products, using the product, and then throwing out the packaging. It inspired him to create the concept of incorporating the packaging in the design of the actual product.   The cardboard packaging [...]

I’ve compiled a list of my top 5 favorite green businesses for 2008.   Its based on companies I found to be environmentally minded, innovative, and possessing the all important “cool” factor.  I have written about some of these companies here and others are first timers to Buddhalabs.com
1) Terracycle - They use worm poop to [...]

Terracycle, a New Jersey based company, creates fertilizer using worm poop.  The worm poop is certified organic and is sold at home and garden stores, such as Home Depot, around the country.  The eco-friendliness of their product doesn’t stop there.  The bottles the fertilizer is packaged in are old soda bottles which are collected from [...]

I love Jack Johnson’s music but until today I never knew how much he cares about the planet. Jack Johnson has his own record label, Brushfire Records, that is not only fair to the artists and employees who work there but also to the environment. When Brushfire Records is on tour with its [...]

Companies are going to great lengths to reduce their carbon footprint and implementing green initiatives in many facets of their business. Initiatives like using biodiesel or electric vehicles in corporate fleets, the use of recycled paper products, and providing labeled bins for employees to separate paper, plastic, and metals. Now companies (and consumers) [...]