Green gadgets can serve as creative and imaginative gifts – if inconventional ones. How about foldable portable cardboard speakers, or a hurricane lamp that runs on hand-crank power? If you’re looking for something innovative and environmentally friendly for this Christmas, these videos should serve to give you at least a few good ideas.

One of the most popular Hybrid cars on the market is the Toyota Prius. Compact and economical, it’s starting price is listed as just $22,400, putting it within the realms of reality for the everyday, albeit environmentally-conscious, individual. The third generation of Toyota Prius, the 2010 model, has EPA ratings of 51 mpg in the city, and 49 mpg on the highway. That’s pretty good even for a hybrid, and is a step up from earlier Toyota Prius models.

The most frustrating aspect of buying green is getting past eco marketing. How do you know whether a product or company is really green? Although a few non-profit groups have tried acting as watch-dogs and offer their seals of approval, there are simply too many different unofficial regulatory bodies and industry-specific factors for the average [...]

Toyota has launched a unique buzz marketing campaign to attract attention to the launch of the newest model of the 2010 Prius, setting up a bizarre display of giant flowers in the middle of Boston’s Prudential Square. So what is the point? What do flowers have to do with the Prius?

The way I see it, there are three ways to encourage businesses to go green: government regulation, spending, and shame. Greenpeace has gone in for option three with their 2009 “Guide to Greener Electronics.” The Guide ranks the world’s leading electronic companies, including manufacturers of computers, phones, TVs and game consoles, on their policies on [...]

Now that you’ve seen what type of things your fellow gadgeteers are creating, get in on it yourself. The Greener Gadgets Conference Design Competition is a great way to show the world how wonderfully creative you are and how eco-righteous you are. Just don’t mention to your friends that there is cash [...]

It seems these days everybody is having a yearly industry conference. Many industries seem to have some sort of conference every weekend somewhere on the planet. The Spotted Snow leopard Conference is next weekend in Phoenix. Check out this conference cutting edge conference. If you’re into that kind [...]