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Choose Your Tissue Wisely Free Mobile, Android and iPhone App from Greenpeace
Greenpeace wants you to choose your toilet tissue wisely and there's an app for that. The Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide makes it easy to find out which brands of facial tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, and napki…
Top Best Cell Phone and Smartphone Recyclers for Earth Day
For Earth Day, carriers and cell phone recyclers ares encouraging people to recycle their cell phones. Recycling is important because cell phones contain toxic chemicals. We have listed the top best places to recycle your cell phone. If your cell phone or smartphone is fairly new, you ma…
Free Green Living Guide from Jamster for Earth Day ’til 4/26
Fox Mobile, in celebration of Earth Day on April 22, it is offering the Green Living Guide : free to U.S. consumers through April 26, 2009 on Jamster. The mobile app gives tips and recommendations on how to live a greener, environmentally-friendly life and includes sections on conservation, recyclin…
Vote Earth Info on Web and Via BlackBerry
RIM has created a BlackBerry specific website for Earth Hour, a time when all people on the earth can show their support for the earth. The BlackBerry mobile website offers information about the project.The VOTE EARTH website says"On March 28 you can VOTE EARTH by switching off your lights f…
1st Solared Powered Touchscreen Phone: Blue Earth from Samsung
Samsung is showing at Mobile World Congress, Blue Earth is the first solar powered touchscreen phone. The solar panel located on the back of the phone generates enough electronic power to call anytime anywhere. Blue Earth is made from recycled plastic called PCM, made&…
Sprint Commits to Sustainability and Buysback Phones
Sprint plans to reach a 90% phone collection rate for reuse/recycling compared with annual wireless device sales by 2017. Sprint has instituted a "Zer0 e-Waste" policy with the providers who receive and process the recycled phones it collects, ensuring they are recycled safely, ethically and respons…
T-Mobile Offers Eco-Friendly Renew for $9.99 with Contract
T-Mobile is now offering the MOTO W233 Renew, with plastic phone housing made from recycled water bottles and is entirely recyclable. The Renew, available for $9.99 with a two-year service agreement and reduces carbon footprints. Through an alliance with Carbonfund.org, Motorola off…
Ericsson Goes Green with Alternative Power, Hybrid and Wind
Ericsson is offering energy-efficient products with emphasis on network energy optimization. This kind of deployment is especially needed for the emerging markets their news release notes. In 2007, Ericsson implemented biofuel as an alternative energy resource, and in 2000 Ericsson was the …
It Ain’t Easy Going Green for Handset Makers, Says ABI
Most mobile handset vendors acknowledge public pressure to create environmentally sound products. It is an issue they need to continue to address through their corporate responsibility charters. Faced with the economic realities of “going green” however, their appetite for creating biode…
Energy Ratings for Mobile Handset Chargers
Five mobile manufacturers have agreed to a common energy rating system for chargers. The star rating system developed and supported by LG, Motorola, Nokia Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson . Chargers use electricity when disconnected from the phone but left plugged into the wall socket. Arou…
Flipswaps Trades Cell Phones, Digital Devices for Credit, Check, Charity or Tree Planting
Flipswap has gotten financing so that mobile upgraders can get credit for their old cell phones and iPods. Flipswap helps consumers trade-in their mobile phones and get credit toward a new device. They also offer to donate money to charity or plant trees. Today, an original iPhone 8G is…
Sprint Goes Green, Recognized as GHG Reduction Goal Setter
Sprint announced an ambitious goal to reduce its total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 15 percent by 2017, along with a set of environmental priorities, as part of its expanded environmental program. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will recognize Sprint as a "GHG …
Sony Ericsson Greens Warranty and Phones
Sony Ericsson is launching green initiatives with an environmental warranty and GreenHeart phones. The Sony Ericsson's environmental warranty ensures that when any Sony Ericsson product is taken to a designated collection point, Sony Ericsson will recycle this product in an environmentally sound way…
Verizon Gives Democratics Greening Tips
This week's Democratic Party Convention promises to be the "greenest" political gathering in history. A Verizon Wireless news release says that Verizon is doing its part to help the environment in Denver and nationwide, starting with phone recycling. According to the EPA, recycling 100 million cell …
Black & Veatch Launches Help for Greening Wireless
Black & Veatch, global engineering, consulting and construction company, announced it has launched services designed to address sustainability challenges faced by wireless communications service providers. These services address the increasingly important need for the wireless industry …
Samsung Bioplastic Corn-Based E200 Eco Shown During Olympic Rendezvous
Samsung showcased a new environment-friendly mobile hand set ma de from bioplastic, 'Samsung E200 Eco,' at the OR@S (Olympic Rendezvous @ Samsung) in Beijing. The case is made from plant-materials extracted from corn. The candy bar phone comes in green and reduces fuel consumptions an d carbon emis…
The Corniest Cell Phones, Eco-Friendly Phones from Samsung
Samsung announced two eco-friendly phones made from cornstarch. The SCH-W510 is called the "Bio Cover Phone" beause it uses bioplastic material made from cornstarch and is manufactured using an environmentally-friendly metal finishing process. Samsung did not use any heavy metals, such as Lead, Merc…
Sony Makes Greener Electronics, Says Greenpeace
The Sony Vaio TZ11 notebook, the Sony Ericsson T650i mobile phone and the Sony Ericsson P1i PDA come out on top in Greenpeace’s “Searching for Greener Electronics” survey released t at CeBIT. But, the race for a green electronic product has not been won yet, each of these products…
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