A geologist in Serbia found a mineral that contains the same chemical composition as the comic books description of kryptonite. After trying to identify the mineral, the geologist searched the internet for comical formula – sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide and received many websites that describe the rock kryptonite that Lex Luther used in the [...]

Notice the image on the right side, Dreamhost buys Carbon Credits to offset its usage for the 1300+ servers it runs (which hosts www.hippygreen.com). So not only is this blog Green by nature, but its hosted by a Green Company. If you looking for a web server/solution, I highly recommend Dreamhost. Dreamhost is not only [...]

Chris Pepe over at Tears of Fire posted yesterday (I was planning to post it, but was so busy launching Hippy Green) on Earth Day his Recycled GreenHouse, a light blub, Dunkin Donuts cup and some small flowers. Chris is know for his creativeness and have written about him yesterday. This article on his twiki [...]

Direct from Bloomberg, the $4/gallon gasoline is coming to America. I know when I had my Subaru STI paying $3.50 (93 octane) I was walking more and thought a bit before I just drove around the block, but now the average Joe is going to pay $4, WTF?!?! America needs to wake up and fight [...]

For all those California readers you may know that there was about 85,000 hybrid owners who were given HOV exempt stickers to allow their hybrid to travel in the carpool lane without the minium 2+ persons in the car. The DMV recent changed the laws creating this market for people to either steal these HOV [...]

Why Not? There are a lot of positive alternatives to various household items such as light bulbs, furniture, and what to do with all that stuff you have. There are various types of efficient light blubs from LED to HEI the cost might be a bit steep, but think about how many times you either [...]

Chris Pepe of Tears of Fire has build some interesting Green DIY projects. Using our Avronics board he has build a Wind LCD Meter to monitor the MAKE DIY Wind Turbine that his brother Michael built. Chris has worked on a variety of EE projects that deal with Green Technology as well as fun Green [...]

This past Thursday April 5, I attended the Google NYC Office for a tech talk with Luiz Barroso’s on “Watts, Faults, and Other Fascinating Dirty Words Computer Architects Can No Longer Afford to Ignore”. He discussed various energy problems and concerns that Google is facing along with ideas and ways to solve them. Google has [...]

Seeing how fast people are moving into cities and how much the price of a square foot costs, it only makes sense that we look at building up. We need to look at utilizing all the space we have in our large cities. While I was visiting Japan I saw many unique structures that saved [...]

The demand for solar engery has been growning expotentialy in recent studies. The solar equipment industry will grown from $20 billion last year to a predicted $90 billion in 2010. The falling cost of solar panels have also raised the demand and help the average houseown setup and install his own source of “free energy”. [...]