The latest version of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics (they do one every year) lets us know which electronics manufacturers are being kind to the earth and which ones could care less. Things that make you fall into that second shameful group are using environmentally unfriendly materials, power guzzling batteries and producing masses of non-biodegradable electronic waste. As you can see from the Greenpeace green-O-meter, Nintendo is by far the biggest offender, while Nokia sits pretty on top of their clean, green world...
posted originally from: Unplggd
Don't you wish saving the world was easy? Don't you wish you could just push a button and drastically reduce your energy consumption? Well, you can. One push of this Captain Planet-themed button activates special software which powers down as much of your PC as possible (without turning it off completely), drastically cutting the power consumption. (Even down to a tiny 1.8 Watts.) 
We know, we know... isn't all paper erasable if you use a pencil? That's true, of course, but the innovation in Xerox's new erasable paper is that messages printed onto the paper will fade off of the sheet in 24 hours, allowing the paper to be re-used. Perfect for memos or temporary notices, but not so perfect in a few other situations...
