Take your mobile off the grid...

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:22:36 GMT

One of the things that give me the most hope about the future is that we really haven't begun to tap the potential for reducing the amount of energy we consume in our lives. Even though nearly every major popular magazine in the last few months has published their top 10, 101, or 269 ways to go green, they're still just scratching the surface of what can be achieved with a little ingenuity. So I am going to add one to the list that I haven't seen yet. Take your mobile phone off the grid... It might seem trivial, but it's not. There are already nearly two billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide. And ninety percent of the world's population is expected to live in an area with mobile phone coverage by 2010. While individual mobile phones do not consume a great deal of energy, most of us consume more energy than is necessary by leaving our phone chargers plugged in. On average, only 5% of the power consumed by phone chargers is in fact used to charge phones, while the other 95% is consumed by the charger when no phone is plugged in. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

WIRED NextFest: What's Next?

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:12:25 GMT

Even though I think green every day for a living, I was shocked by how much of NextFest, Wired Magazine's annual showcase for promising new technologies that was held in New York's main convention center last week, was focused on green living. Not only did this year's program include an entire exhibit focused on the "Future of Green" for the first time, but new environmentally innovative technologies seemed to be everywhere. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Al, Arnold, and Sir Richard... The End of the Beginning?

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:09:20 GMT

Richard Branson's announcement at the Clinton Global Initiative last week signals, I think, the end of the beginning of what promises to be a long battle against climate change. (Disclosure: my firm, GreenOrder, conducted the carbon inventory for the Clinton Global initiative.) Coming soon after Gore's movie and Arnold's signing of ambitious climate change legislation in California, Branson's announcement that he will invest $3 billion in low-carbon, renewable energy technologies over the next 10 years shows that some of the most ambitious, powerful, and self-promoting people on the planet now see it in their interest to jump on the climate bandwagon. Climate change has truly arrived as an issue on the global stage. Now comes the hard part...... Read the full story on TreeHugger

TreeHugger Welcomes Nicholas Moore Eisenberger

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:16:02 GMT

Nicholas is an environmental entrepreneur working to "make progress profitable," per the tagline of his firm GreenOrder, where he is Managing Principal. He has been working on business and environmental issues for well nigh on 15 years, after having had an epiphany walking down the street in the early nineties. He finished law school up in Cambridge, and even practiced for a few years in San Francisco, but soon "dropped out," to start the first of several environmental businesses. At GreenOrder, Nicholas advises clients on many things green, but always with an eye toward making sure "green is green."... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Recent Posts by TreeHugger's Nicholas Moore Eisenberger, New York City

Take your mobile off the grid...

WIRED NextFest: What's Next?

Al, Arnold, and Sir Richard... The End of the Beginning?

TreeHugger Welcomes Nicholas Moore Eisenberger