Doug Pray made a great video for the Paul Curtis Reverse Graffiti Project.  Green Works, the plant based cleaners, is who this graffiti advertising is promoting.  Paul Curtis is one interesting graffiti artist, he is armed with a power washer, not a can of spray paint and his canvas is a dirty surface that he sets out to make clean.  Just check out the process, it’s all pretty interesting in a green sort of way.

Here is a television network for all those hippie types.  Don’t get all hissy fit about calling you greeners hippies, at least someone cares about the planet.

Hush hush, I care about the planet, I’ve been wondering when the riots will start breaking out since the skyrocketing gas prices.  Who’s hit $4.00 a gallon?  We have!

Check this commercial out though, it’s pretty good.  I love the security guard’s line, “Nope, just naked.”

 

A couple of gas hoarding lit their apartment complex on fire.  How many gallons you say?  Approximately 45 gallons of gasoline in nine plastic containers stacked in a closet that also contained an air conditioning unit caused the blaze.  The fumes from the gasoline set off the fire Thursday, luckily, it was quickly extinguished by the sprinkler system.

No one was seriously hurt, but residents of eight units of the complex were displaced.

Investigators believe the couple was storing the gas because of rising prices. Officials say they might face civil penalties for violating the fire code.

I only mention this as a reminder of what not to do with the ever rising gas prices.  All I gotta say is, hybrid cars.

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A couple of weeks ago Apple announced plans for a new iPhone.  Word is that they filed a patent to have solar cells on portable devices.

Outfitted with such technology, Apple’s devices, like the iPhone, could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, thus maximizing the area available for harnessing the sun.

You’ll be able to see your device’s solar cells performance information on the main screen next to the battery power, text message alerts and clock.

 

One related product is the 6.4-ounce Solio Mg, $200, from Better Energy Systems. Its three magnesium blades fan out to reveal solar panels, which can store enough power to charge most phones and PDAs twice; an hour of clear sun will give most cell phones 25 minutes of talk time or an iPod an hour of playing time. It takes ten hours of direct sun to fully juice the device. (See Off The Grid But In The Game)

Also, the world’s first solar bag–the Voltaic Systems’ Generator laptop bag–is covered in solar cells and can charge a laptop. It generates up to 14.7 watts after a day of direct sunlight, can carry a 17-inch Apple Powerbook and comes with adapters that allow other electronics, such as cell phones, to be charged.

 

So go off-the-grid with Apple’s new patent, which is said to be out on the market with their new generation of iPhones.

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In case you hadn’t noticed, Google is black. It’s Earth Hour Day!! So be sure to turn your lights out between 8-9 pm in your time zone! If you are one of the lucky people who live in Copenhage, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai and Tel Aviv then you have the opportunity to attend an event that is acknowledging the effort to conserve energy.

Participate, follow the crowd and do the world some good.

Sydney went dark for their hour last night!

Dothegreenthing.com is back again with another of their shorts.  This was submitted by them on Youtube and passed along, so let’s do the green thing and save our planet from greenhouse gases.

Here is a little snippet from their “How to do” section for March’s green thing:

Put down your pork chop, surrender your sausage, and lay off the lamb shanks. This month’s Green Thing is all about going Easy On The Meat.

Now, meat may be tasty – in fact, it’s downright delicious, especially in pie format. But unfortunately it’s also responsible for massive emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

The way cows, pigs, sheep and even chickens are reared (no sniggering) uses lots of fossil fuels, creating lots of CO2. Farm animals also have a nasty habit of producing vast quantities of methane, as you’ll know if you’ve ever picnicked downwind of a cowherd.

Plus, eating all that meat doesn’t make you insanely healthy, we are omnivores so pick up a carrot every once in a while.  Also, the encourage you to record that you have “done it” on their site, so help them out there too.

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