http://www.greenbrierplace.com Where Green and Technology Meet! Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:23:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're in the UK, a treehugger, and looking for an eco-friendly mobile phone then head on over to Vodafone and pick the Sony Ericsson ELM mobile phone, a phone part of Sony Ericsson's Greenheart portfolio. Sony Ericsson's Greenheart mobile phones are made of recycled materials and uses minimal and ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/sony-ericsson-elm-greenheart-phone-available-on-vodafone-uk/ Here's your chance to win an environmentally all-in-one PC and spread the word about the importance of green living through MSI's Get the Green Touch Contest. MSI Get the Green Touch is a Facebook paged campaign that aims to donate 10 MSI Wind Top All-in-one PC to one of five ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/msi-launches-msi-get-the-green-touch-contest/ Granted that both devices are no Samsung Reclaim in terms of their environmentally friendliness but just between these two, which ones do you think will have less impact to the environment? The HTC Desire is made up of high quality plastic materials, or so some reviews claim while the HTC ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/htc-desire-legend-environment-friendly/ So, SUVs doesn't necessarily equal environment friendly. I mean, most SUVs in the market are gas guzzlers but it's nice to know that the company Pirelli is trying to make SUVs a little more earth friendly by introducing the Scorpion Verde. So what makes the Pirelli Scorpion Verde earth friendly? First ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/scorpion-verde-first-green-tire-for-suvs/ I've been toying with the idea of changing my wordpress theme. My current wordpress theme is my second one. The first one also has something to do with green technology though I had to change that because I couldn’t find it anymore when I upgraded to the latest version of ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/green-wordpress-theme/ Wouldn't it be nice if all businessmen would have a green phone? I mean, I'm not saying they carry a solar powered phone but something like the Sony Ericsson Aspen. The Sony Ericsson Aspen has a Blackberry-like look, has a touchscreen (which is really popular these days) and the most important: ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/tree-huggers-dream-mobile-phone-the-sony-ericsson-aspen/ Well, here's something that would make speed bumps less annoying. The Motion Powered Speed Bump isn't your ordinary cement speed bump found near schools, it's a flat metal plate with long thin pedals on top. As a car passes over it, the pedals turns gears and generates 2,000W of electricity ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/speed-bumps-that-generate-electricity/ Want an eco-friendly activity for your kids so that they won't waste their time (and your electricity bills) playing video games at home? Well, you can get them to skate outdoors. Skating is good for their health and what better way to be more green than buy the K2 Eco ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/k2-etu-eco-skates/ So I've recently talked about a green mobile phone like the Samsung Reclaim, right? So I thought that this was a REALLY green phone considering that its made of almost all recycled materials. Apparently, EISA thinks that the greenest phone out there is the LG Arena. Now I've heard of ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/lg-arena-a-green-phone-according-to-eisa/ As its name suggests, the Nissan Leaf is a green car. How is it green? Well, the Nissan LEAF's power train has no tailpipe so there's no way it would be emitting CO2 or other greenhouse gases. And while some of you might not opt for electric cars because it ... http://www.greenbrierplace.com/the-nissan-leaf/