One of the best ways to become more energy efficient is to start measuring the amount of energy you use in your home every day. A company called Current Cost has developed the ENVI energy monitor. The ENVI connects to your electrical energy supply, and gives you detailed data on usage.
The ENVI Energy Monitor [...]

This Energy Efficient Kettle by electronics giant, Philips, utilizes a measuring guide and a flat heating element to help reduce the amount of electricity used. It does this by allowing you to boil water by cup. According to the manufacturers, you save around 66% of the electricity usually used to boil a kettle. Boiling excess [...]

Energenie is a new eco-friendly, energy efficient device which has been designed to reduce all your energy bills. It’s estimated that 8% of the cost of your electricity bill is made up of power used while on standby mode and most people still use the standby mode.
The Energenie is a device which acts as a [...]

As part of its EcoVision plan, Philips launched its range of energy efficient consumer lifestyle products that enable consumers to save energy. The plan is to generate 30% of Philips’ revenue through environmentally friendly products by the year 2012, highlighting Philips’s commitment to contributing towards a cleaner world.
The new Philips energy efficient range of consumer [...]

Microsoft and Ford have just inked a deal to combine forces on producing a computerized link between people’s homes, their electric cars and the utility companies.
The system will combine Microsoft Hohm with Ford’s electric cars, specifically, next year’s Ford Focus Electric (image above). Hohm will act as an intermediary between a person’s house and the [...]

Intel, the company behind the processors in so many of our computers and various devices, is taking a major interest in advancing its smart grid technology.
In the next month or two Intel will start pilot tests on its new home energy management devices in Oregon. Intel is also currently working on project with Tendril Networks [...]

The three-year anniversary of the Museum of Art and Science’s Smart Home comes with a facelift for the 2,500 square foot Chicago demo residence.
With the most current in eco-technology, the green smart home boasts a reservoir tank for collecting rain water. It’s powered solely by solar panels on the roof and wind turbine in the [...]

Want to keep that creepy boogy man away without consuming energy? This solar powered window alarm by Smart Solar. Designed to be mounted onto the window to power itself through its built in solar panels, the solar powered window alarm has sensors that can be placed up to 60 cm away from the main unit.
If a [...]

The developed world has an extremely expensive sewage system that pipes the feces, urine and wastewater from every household to waste treatment centers - hardly a sustainable system.
Ideally we should be doing things like capturing the urine and recycling it as a nitrogen and phosphorus rich fertilizer. This would also save water that would have [...]

The new Xeros washing machine cleans clothes with only 10% of the water need from a regular washing machine and could reduce household bills by 30%.
The key to the nearly waterless washing machine is tiny, nylon beads that help eliminate stains with a minimum of liquid. The 3mm-long beads are capable of being used for [...]