Travel gadgets go green

With air travel and hotel stays, business trips can be taxing on the environment. There are ways to conserve, though. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das shows you some travel products that have an eco-friendly spin.

Real time monitoring of your energy consumption

Would you conserve energy if you could monitor your consumption by the hour? Lucid Design Group has developed new software that provides users with instant feedback on how much energy they're using. SmartPlanet visits the start-up to see their dashboard up close.

The Future of... Packaging

Packing material is no friend to the environment. Energy intensive to produce, it often ends up in landfill after a single use. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das looks at some greener compostable options for protecting your packages.

Reinventing the clay building brick

CalStar Products CEO Tom Pounds is laying the foundation for 'green' building materials one brick at a time. His company has developed a new type of building brick that uses neither clay or cement during manufacturing. Instead they've figured out a more energy efficient process by using fly ash, a material that's left over after burning coal in the nation's big power plants.

LEED pioneer shows off his sustainable home

Founder of the U.S. Green Building Council, David Gottfried helped dream up rating system that eventually became LEED-otherwise known as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification system. SmartPlanet visits the visionary's LEED platinum house in Oakland, California for a tour of its sustainable features.

Eco-friendly, efficient and comes with fries. Watch how the Müvbox is changing restaurants.

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美國綠旅館

美國綠旅館

不僅維持原本的服務品質，背後也達到了節能減碳的目的。

Proximity Hotel Greensboro，NC是首間獲得U.S. Green Council頒發LEED Platinum Certification的綠色旅館。這綠色旅館的客人服務與以往高級飯店無異，但背後卻省下極大的能源，達到環保節能的最大功效

Solar-Powered Water Purifier

WWF has selected Solvatten, a solar-powered water purifier, as a 'Climate Solver', recognizing this Swedish invention's potential to reduce green-house gas emissions. Given the number of people worldwide currently treating their water by boiling with firewood, WWF estimates that, with widespread distribution, Solvatten could be reducing CO2 emissions by 26 million tonnes per year by 2020. The use of Solvatten can reduce dependence on firewood and other fuels, since it uses the sun's rays.

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