The youngest person ever to be invited to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Visiting Practitioners Program is a 15-year-old self-taught engineer from Sierra Leone named Kelvin Doe aka DJ…

If years of cranking up your tunes to sky-high decibels are taking their toll, the electronics wizards at AfterShokz have created a better way to rock out by bypassing your eardrums completely. The Syracuse, NY-based…

Head Nod to: fastcoexist by Andrew Price

Whether it’s building cities, rail roads, or even…

LetGive's Snooze app for iPhone, iPod, or iPad is a promising app that will actually do some good. Snooze is currently available but in beta format as they fine tune some of their features.…

We can not save anything if we are lacking as a nation to provide a great education for all. This is a great piece I wanted to share with you.  Eco Hustler

Head Nod  to…

BY MICHAEL J. COREN via FastCompany

In places where…

Photograph by Benjamin Lowy

In an article I read by  APRIL RABKIN 

she…

I am sure like most you have never thought about swimming in New York's East River.  Well after reading and seeing the following Kickstarter campaign you will undoubtedly change your mind as I have. I look forward to seeing you all in your most fashionable swimwear and accessories as…

via: UrbanDaddy

You care about the planet. You also care about the bikini.

But finally, there’s a way to care about both.

Introducing the …

I am always on the look out for great looking sustainable pieces for my wife and ran across the luxurious Diffus Design Solar Handbag.  I know the thought of a stylish handbag being able to convey the energy harvested to the rechargeable…

by: Andy Stirling and Alister Scott, Project Syndicate

BRIGHTON – Why do we seem to be witnessing an increasing number of nasty technological surprises? Indeed, this year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and last…

via: Letter from Lorna Salzman

Despite p.r. noting the involvement of a "Princeton graduate" and physicists, a google search on the US Naval Research lab work on "cold fusion" comes up devoid…

It's great feelin' to see technology go into a direction of using less materials and energy.

The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone -- it does everything a smartphone does, like store…

I would have never even consider that I may want a lightbulb with an IP address? But it was not obvious to me that we’re not talking regular incandescent bulbs. NXP’s future outlook in the world of smarter homes is bringing the cost of home automation much closer to the…

by ecohookups.com contributor: Kate Boyd

Solar panels and wind turbines can be so helpful to the environment because you will use much less electric that’s provided by your electric…

Columbia Power Technologies is taking the fight for alternative energy to high seas with their official deployment of a prototype wave energy device and have…

I came across the "Pee Power" story on the Huffington Post  just after my "pee pee break" and found it both amusing and fascinating how our liquid waste…

I really dig it when a designer truly designs for good as the world does not need another useless product.

Designer Jonathan Liow created the Solarball that kinda resembles a hamster ball which can purify just over 3 quarts of water daily. Jonathan designed the Solarball to help those people in areas…

by ecohookups.com contributor: Nilo Chinilla

What consumers nowadays are looking is an active participation in saving mother earth. Everybody has  jumped on to the eco-friendly bandwagon with hopes of making the planet a desirable place to live in.

Sony Ericsson is…

by ecohookups.com contributor: Marie Watkiss

The World renowned fashion brand Benetton’s, have developed (in partnership with the German Fraunhofer-Institut für Chemische Technologie) an innovative addition to their fashionable ranges – Liquid wood clothing hangers. These 100% biodegradable, lightweight and recyclable…